Sheffield City Council election, 2014

Sheffield City Council election, 2014

22 May 2014
29 of 84 seats to Sheffield City Council 43 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Labour Liberal Democrat Seats won 18 6 Seat change 1 4   Third party Fourth party   Party UKIP Green Seats won 3 2 Seat change 3 2
400px Map showing the results of the 2014 Sheffield City Council elections.
Majority party before election Labour Majority party after election Labour

Sheffield City Council elections took place on 22 May 2014, alongside nationwide local elections and European elections.

There were 29 seats up for election, one third of the council with a double vacancy in Walkley.

With a Labour majority of 36 and defending 19 seats, it was almost mathematically impossible for Labour to lose control of the council, as Labour would have needed to lose all 19 of those 19 seats to lose control. Even then Labour would still have been the largest party.

Sheffield City Council Election, 2014
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	18	2	3	1	62.1	36.8	54,596	10.1
	UKIP	3	3	0	3	10.3	22.8	33,765	12.3
	Liberal Democrat	6	1	5	4	20.7	17.8	26,409	4.2
	Green	2	2	0	2	6.9	12.7	18,816	2.3
	Conservative	0	0	0	0	0.0	7.1	10,483	1.1
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.2	3,187	1.2
	Independents	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.7	970	0.2

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

Party		Previous council	New council	+/-
	Labour	60	59	1
	Liberal Democrats	22	18	4
	Greens	2	4	2
	UKIP	0	3	3
	Conservatives	0	0	0
Total		84	84
Working majority		18	17

Defections

Since the 2010 when these seats were last contested, 2 Liberal Democrats defected to Labour (Seats in Walkley and Beauchief & Greenhill).

Deaths and by-elections

A Liberal Democrat councillor for Fulwood died, with the by-election resulting in a Lib Dem hold.

A Labour councillor for Manor & Castle died, with the by-election resulting in a Labour hold.