The 2024 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council elections will be held on 2 May 2024 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. One third of seats on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council are up for election.[1] The 2024 West Midlands mayoral election will be held concurrently.[2]
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24 of 72 seats on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council 37 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||
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Background edit
Sandwell is a consistently Labour council, with Labour having held majorities in every election since its creation in 1973, apart from 1978 when the Conservatives gained the council.[3] From 2018 to 2021, Sandwell was one of the few councils to be comprised fully of one party, with Labour in control of all 72 wards.[4] In the most recent election in 2023 election both Labour and the Conservatives gained two seats each, the councillors on these seats having either switched to the Liberal Democrats or gone independent after the 2022 election.
Both of the parties have lost councillors over the last year. The majority of these have not had the reasons behind publicly revealed. However, it is known that Councillor Jay Anandou left the Conservatives over the rest of his party failing to back his campaign to stop development on the former Brandhall Golf Club.[5] Additionally, two councillors switched from Conservative to Labour, citing a lack of faith in the Conservatives ability to govern.[6]
After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[7] | ||||
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Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
Labour | 60 | Labour | 59 | ||
Conservative | 12 | Conservative | 8 | ||
Independent | 0 | Independent | 5 |
Election results edit
2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election | ||||||||||
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Green | 0 | |||||||||
Liberal Democrats | 0 | |||||||||
Reform UK | 0 | |||||||||
TUSC | 0 | |||||||||
Yeshua | 0 |
References edit
- ^ Bustin, Claire. "Information about the 2024 elections in Sandwell". Sandwell Council. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Local elections 2024: Mayor of the West Midlands". Institute for Government. 2021-11-15. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ Brassington, Jamie (7 May 2021). "Conservative local election success means Sandwell Council has an opposition again". Express and Star. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2024/01/20/conservative-party-sacks-sandwell-federation-chairman-after-row-over-leaders-suspension/
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl4xl3dn8r8o
- ^ "Councillors by Party". sandwell.gov. Archived from the original on 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.