Congestion Charge result
Yesterday the campaign against the Manchester congestion charge, supported exclusively by the Conservatives among the three main parties, succeeded overwhelmingly, with all ten boroughs voting no. The official results are as follows:
Bolton
Yes 20,529
No 76,910
Bury
Yes16,563
No 64,001
Manchester
Yes 43,593
No 113,064
Oldham
Yes 17,571
No 68,884
Rochdale
Yes 17,333
No 61,686
Salford
Yes 14,603
No 79,326
Stockport
Yes 24,090
No 103,706
Tameside
Yes 16,323
No 83,105
Trafford
Yes 20,445
No 83,568
Wigan
Yes 27,810
No 78,565
Satisfied though we are with the result, Manchester Conservatives are not prepared to allow Labour and the Liberal Democrats to get away with sitting on their hands and doing nothing to improve our public transport, as they threatened before the vote to try to bully us into accepting the congestion charge. We will be outlining our proposals to bring real, lasting improvements to public transport - improvements that will lead to the costs to working people in Manchester going down, not up - in the coming weeks.
Bolton
Yes 20,529
No 76,910
Bury
Yes16,563
No 64,001
Manchester
Yes 43,593
No 113,064
Oldham
Yes 17,571
No 68,884
Rochdale
Yes 17,333
No 61,686
Salford
Yes 14,603
No 79,326
Stockport
Yes 24,090
No 103,706
Tameside
Yes 16,323
No 83,105
Trafford
Yes 20,445
No 83,568
Wigan
Yes 27,810
No 78,565
Satisfied though we are with the result, Manchester Conservatives are not prepared to allow Labour and the Liberal Democrats to get away with sitting on their hands and doing nothing to improve our public transport, as they threatened before the vote to try to bully us into accepting the congestion charge. We will be outlining our proposals to bring real, lasting improvements to public transport - improvements that will lead to the costs to working people in Manchester going down, not up - in the coming weeks.