Sheffield City Council elections

Elections in the United Kingdom

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 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 councillors. Turnout was up dramatically with it being held alongside the general election, to 62.6%. The higher turnout helped mainly Labour against their electoral rivals, who managed to return the council to 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...

with three gains.

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
	Liberal Democrats	44	42
	Labour	36	39
	Greens	3	2
	Independent Liberal Democrat	1	1
	Conservatives	0	0
	BNP	0	0
	UKIP	0	0
	Trade Unionist & Socialist	0	0
	English Democrats	0	0
	Socialist Alternative	0	0
Total		84	84
Working majority

Ward results

Since the election, the winning candidate Ben Curran has defected to the Labour Party.