The results of the local elections in Sheffield City Council came in thick and fast in the early hours of Friday morning, showing a city almost unchanged.
Most wards remained exactly the same, with only four seats changing hands – Beighton, which switched from Labour to Liberal Democrat, Crookes and Crosspool, which changed to Labour from Liberal Democrat, and Hillsborough and Gleadless Valley, which both flipped from Labour to Green.
The council still remains in no overall control for the second year running.
The main story of the night was Lib Dem Mohammed Mahroof losing his Crookes and Crosspool seat, where he has been a councillor since 2018.
All other wards remained the same, with some change in the vote share meaning Conservative candidates slipped into third place and Green candidates increased their votes.
City ward’s Green Party candidate Martin Phipps, for example, was re-elected with a 498-vote majority – an improvement from his 16-vote majority in 2018.
Other wards such as Walkley and Mosborough saw a tight race, with just a 98-vote majority for Labour’s Tom Hunt and a 126-vote majority for the re-elected Liberal Democrat Gail Smith.
Leader of the Council Terry Fox was standing in Manor Castle for the Labour Party and saw a slight decrease in his majority – from 1,118 to 1,077.
He told Sheffield Wire it is “humbling to have that opportunity to serve the good people of Manor ward”.
Cllr Fox said he was pleased to see vote improvement for the Labour Party both locally and nationally, saying “we are listening, we are delivering for the people of Sheffield and tonight’s results reflect that”.
One seat where the race had looked to be tight was in Stocksbridge and Upper Don, where Conservative candidate David Chinchen was looking to snatch the seat from Labour.
Mr Chinchen didn’t quite manage it, missing out on the seat by just 151 votes. Labour’s Janet Ridler held the seat for the Party instead, despite last year’s elections seeing a 497 majority for the now Conservative councillor Lewis Chinchen.
There was a delay in the counting process after a man threatened polling station staff in the Community Room on Westminster Crescent, Fulwood after voting closed.
The police were called and the incident was resolved, with the box of votes arriving unaffected to the venue in the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
Full ward results are as follows:
Richmond – Labour hold, Mike Drabble
Beighton – Lib Dem gain from Labour, Kurtis Crossland
Burngreave – Labour hold, Mark Jones
Darnall – Labour hold, Zaharia Naz
Manor Castle – Labour hold, Terry Fox
Birley – Labour hold, Karen McGowan
City – Green hold, Martin Phipps
Dore and Totley – Lib Dem hold, Martin Smith
East Ecclesfield – Labour hold, Craig Gamble Pugh
Firth Park – Labour hold, Abitsam Mohamed
Gleadless Valley – Green gain, Marieanne Elliot
Hillsborough – Green gain, Henry Nottage
Mosborough – Lib Dem hold, Gail Smith
Park and Arbourthorne – Labour hold, Nabeela Mowlana
Southey – Labour hold, Jayne Dunn
Stannington – Lib Dem hold, Vickie Priestley
West Ecclesfield – Lib Dem hold, Mike Levery
Stocksbridge and Upper Don – Labour hold, Janet Ridler
Woodhouse – Labour hold, Paul Wood
Beauchief and Greenhill – Lib Dem hold, Simon Clement-Jones
Broomhill and Sharrow Vale – Green hold, Maleiki Haybe
Crookes and Crosspool – Labour gain, Minesh Parekh
Ecclesall – Lib Dem hold, Shaffaq Mohammed
Fulwood, Lib Dem hold, Cliff Woodcraft
Graves Park – Lib Dem hold, Steve Ayris
Nether Edge and Sharrow – Labour gain, Nighat Basharat
Shiregreen and Brightside – Labour hold, Garry Weatherall
Walkley – Labour hold, Tom Hunt
