Full Sunderland City Council election results for 2024
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Local elections 2024: What do results mean for Rotherham?
The borough’s Labour Party – led by Councillor Chris Read – increased their majority by two seats, and now hold 33 seats on the council and remain the ruling party. They may have increased their majority, but it was not a landslide by any means – 30 seats are needed to take control of RMBC – meaning Labour are in power by just three seats. It was a better result for the party than the last election in 2021, which saw Labour lose 16 seats and narrowly cling on to control. However, it wasn’t as...
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Local elections 2024: What do results mean for Barnsley?
The borough’s Labour Party – led by Councillor Sir Steve Houghton CBE – held 17 seats on the council and remain the ruling party. Thirty-two seats are needed to take control of BMBC, and Labour have a clear majority with 48 councillors overall. The Conservatives lost one of their two seats to Labour, leaving them with just one councillor. They lost Penistone East, a traditional Tory stronghold, to Labour’s John Roberts. Councillor Roberts won the seat with a majority of just 156 votes, with...
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Spoilt ballots, best and worst turnout – this year’s Sheffield City Council local elections in numbers
The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) has produced more than half a dozen articles about what happened at the count and what the new makeup of the city council will mean for Sheffield for the foreseeable future. However, there are some numbers we need to talk about. At the count last Friday (May 3), it was announced that the total turnout was 31.87 per cent – later, on SheffNews (the council’s news website) it was reported that the overall local election turnout was 32.7 per cent. Last...