Governance
Historically a part of the hundred of Salford in the county of Lancashire, until the 19th century, Little Lever was a township and chapelry in the ecclesiastical parish of Deane, in Lancashire.
The Bolton Poor Law Union was established in 1837 under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and was administered a the Board of Guardians. It took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law in Little Lever and neighbouring townships and chapelries. The Guardians made use of the workhouses at Fletcher Street in Great Bolton and Goose Cote Hill in Turton until in 1861, when a purpose built union workhouse was opened at Fishpool in Farnworth.
In 1872, the village was governed by a local board until 1894 when an Urban District Council was formed. The council consisted of twelve members elected from the four wards, Church, Ladyshore, Stopes and West.
In 1974, local government reorganisation made Little Lever a part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, and is represented on the borough council by three councillors as part of a ward which also covers Darcy Lever.
It is represented in the United Kingdom Parliament as part of the Bolton South East constituency and at the European Parliament as part of the North West England constituency. In 2008, the Member of Parliament for the Ward is Dr Brian Iddon (Labour Party). The Councillors for the ward were in 2008, Councillor Anthony Connell (Labour), Councillor Sean Colin Hornby (Labour) and Councillor Mrs Mary Woodward (Conservative)
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