Labour candidate Ian Stewart has been named as the first directly-elected mayor of Salford.
Stewart, who won 23,459 votes for a 50.9% total, pledged to change the way the city was run as he was sworn into office.
The former Eccles MP clinched victory on second preference votes after failing to win outright. Conservative runner Karen Garrido was his closest rival with 10,071 votes.
In his acceptance speech, the Salford mayor promised to promote an integrated education system to improve employment in the city.
He referred to Salford as a city with an "exciting, innovative, positive future" which had a "profound" motto - the welfare of the people is the highest law.
He added: "I will strive with every sinew of my body to honour that. Our key aim will be to ensure the people of Salford and their families benefit and genuinely share in that positive future."
A total of 46,054 people - 26.1% of the electorate - turned up to cast their vote in the historic event.
