Elections to Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It consists of 84 councillors, elected to represent 28 wards, each with three councillors...

took place on Thursday 5 May 2011.

There were 28 seats up for election, one third of the council. The last election

Sheffield Council election, 2010

Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 6 May 2010. There were 28 seats up for election in 2010, one of the three councillors from each ward. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Frank Taylor had defected to an Independent leaving the Liberal Democrats with 44...

 left the council with no overall control

No overall control

Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...

. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Ben Curran, and Lib Dem-turn-independent Frank Taylor had defected to Labour leaving both parties equal at 41 councillors each. This election seen Labour regain control of the council, since they lost it in 2006, with nine gains from the Lib Dems. Overall turnout was 41.8%.

Election result

This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	New council
	Labour	41	50
	Liberal Democrats	41	32
	Greens	2	2
	Conservatives	0	0
	UKIP	0	0
	Trade Unionist & Socialist	0	0
	BNP	0	0
	Socialist Equality	0	0
Total		84	84
Working majority

Ward results