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2002 Sheffield City Council election
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 2002 Sheffield City Council election |
| country | England |
| type | Parliamentary |
| ongoing | no |
| party_colour | yes |
| previous_election | 2000 Sheffield City Council election |
| previous_year | 2000 |
| next_election | 2003 Sheffield City Council election |
| next_year | 2003 |
| seats_for_election | One third of seats (29 of 87) to Sheffield City Council |
| majority_seats | 44 |
| election_date | 2 May 2002 |
| party1 | Labour Party (UK) |
| seats1 | 19 |
| seat_change1 | 7 |
| party2 | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| seats2 | 10 |
| seat_change2 | 5 |
| party3 | Conservative Party (UK) |
| seats3 | 0 |
| seat_change3 | 0 |
| map_image | Sheffield UK local election 2002 map.png |
| map_size | 400px |
| map_caption | Map showing the results of the 2002 Sheffield City Council elections. |
| title | Majority party |
| posttitle | Majority party after election |
| before_election | Liberal Democrats |
| after_election | No Overall Control |
Sheffield City Council elections took place on 2 May 2002. One third of seats were up for election. Since the previous election, the Liberal Democrats and Labour had each suffered one defection - Ronald Shepherd left the Labour grouping to sit as an Independent and Lib Dem Matthew Dixon defected, firstly as an Independent and then to the Conservatives. In this time an earlier Lib Dem defector, Trefor Morgan, also changed from an Independent to Liberal.
Following this election, the council returned to no overall control, as the sizable swing from Lib Dem to Labour allowed Labour to gain five seats directly from the Lib Dems, and two from earlier defections, making Labour narrowly the largest party with 43 seats to the Lib Dem's 42. Overall turnout was 30.0%.
Election result
|seats % = 65.5 |votes % = 44.5 |plus/minus = +7.2 |seats % = 34.5 |votes % = 36.6 |plus/minus = -8.4 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 13.6 |plus/minus = -0.5 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 3.3 |plus/minus = +1.1 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.7 |plus/minus = +0.6 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.5 |plus/minus = -0.6 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.4 |plus/minus = New |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.2 |plus/minus = N/A |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.1 |plus/minus = ±0.0 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 0.1 |plus/minus = -0.1
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:
| Party | Previous council | New council | Labour Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;" | Liberal Democrats (UK)}}; width: 3px;" | Conservative Party (UK)}}; width: 3px;" | Independent Labour}}; width: 3px;" | Liberal Party (UK, 1989)}}; width: 3px;" | Total | 87 | 87 | Working majority | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 36 | 43 | ||||||||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | 47 | 42 | ||||||||||||||
| Conservatives | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Liberal | 1 | 0 |
Ward results
References
References
- "Sheffield 2002 election results (via WayBackMachine)". sheffield.gov.uk.
- "Local elections: Sheffield, 2nd May 2002".
- "Sheffield Council Candidates, 2002".
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