The current list of councillors in Macclesfield Town Council, following the Local Elections on 4 May 2023.

The Conservatives lost control of Cheshire East Council for the first time, including losing all their Macclesfield councillors.

[16] These results were reflected in the Town Council too, where the Tories lost all eight of their seats.

Labour fared better, gaining five seats to a total of nine, while Independents won the remaining three.

Broken Cross, Central, Tytherington, South and West & Ivy Wards elect two councillors.

[25] In 2016 the incoming Mayor, Cllr Alift Harewood-Jones, established the position of Mayor's cadet, to have a young person from a local cadet organisation to assist in civic duties.