User:HLE/Great Lever (ward)

Great Lever is an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It had changed its name to Burnden in 1980, but was reverted to its original name in 2004. Great Lever ward elects three Councillors to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one Councillor every year without election on the fourth.

Background
Great Lever had been one of the autonomous townships of the ancient parish of Middleton in the Salford Hundred of the historic county of Lancashire until the mid-19th century. In 1866, it gained civil parish status in its own right. Great Lever became one of the civil parishes of the Bolton Rural Sanitary District from 1872 to 1894, then part of Bolton Rural District from 1894 to 1898. Under of the Bolton, Turton and Westhoughton Extension Act, Great Lever lost its civil parish status and became one of the electoral wards of the County Borough of Bolton from 1898 to 1974.

Metropolitan borough ward
Under the Local Government Act 1972, Great Lever became one of the electoral wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton for the 1973 to 1979 elections. Following ward boundary changes, it changed its name to the Burnden ward for the 1980 to 2003 elections. But following further boundary changes for the 2004 election, its original name was restored to the Great Lever ward. It covers the Great Lever and Burnden areas and it stretches northwards to include the eastern half of Bolton town centre. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, the electoral ward had a population of 14,467. Great Lever ward is represented in Bolton Town Hall by three elected councillors. It is also one of the seven wards which form the Bolton South East constituency and has been represented in the House of Commons by the Labour Party MP Yasmin Qureshi since 2010.