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1998 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election

1998 UK local government election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7832561 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elections to Trafford Council were held on 7 May 1998. One-third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2002. The Labour Party held overall control of the council.

Election result

Ward results

Altrincham

Bowdon

Broadheath

Brooklands

Bucklow

Clifford

Davyhulme East

Davyhulme West

Flixton

Hale

Longford

Mersey-St. Mary's

Park

Priory

Sale Moor

St.

Editorial summary

“1998 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election” enters the record as 1998 UK local government election. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trafford, Metropolitan and Borough can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trafford, Metropolitan and Borough.
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Why this record matters

“1998 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Trafford, Metropolitan and Borough provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7832561. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “1998 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.