2011 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election

Elections to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011, with one third of the seats up for election.

Following the elections, the Liberal Democrats lost their majority on the council for the first time since 2002, but continued in power without an overall majority.

The state of the parties after the election was:

Manor
''Patrick McAuley left Labour and became a Lib Dem councillor in 2012.

Changes 2011–2012
On 21 January 2012, Patrick McAuley, Labour councillor for Manor since May 2011, announced on Twitter that he had resigned from the Labour Party but that he would continue to serve as a councillor;