2004 Sheffield City Council Election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 2003 Sheffield Council election, 2003, reducing the number of seats by 3. This election was the first all-postal vote election held, dramatically improving overall turnout by 14.4% on the previous election to 43.9%. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party kept its overall majority and continued to run the council, albeit on a much slimmer majority. Previous to the boundary changes, sitting Hillsborough councillor Peter MacLoughlin defected from the Liberal Democrats to an Independent, choosing not to contest this election. Election result This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: Ward results Arbourthorne Julie Dore and John Robson were sitting councillors for Park, Timothy Rippon was a sitting councillor for Southey Green, Robert McCan ...
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2003 Sheffield City Council Election
The 2003 Sheffield Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Sheffield City Council. One third of the council was up for election, and Labour Party (UK), Labour took control of the council from no overall control, with six gains from the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats. The election saw a trial of electronic voting in half of the council's Wards of the United Kingdom, wards. Voters in these wards were able to vote by either text message, touch tone phone, internet, postal voting, post, or use electronic kiosks as well as the normal polling stations. Overall turnout was 29.5%, a half a per cent fall on the previous year, a drop negated somewhat by the higher turnout in the wards trialing electronic voting. Election result This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: Ward results ...
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