By-Election Location
By winning party colour
Voting Breakdown
Percentage based
Gains and Losses
Percentage based
UKIP 710 (55.1; +55.1)
Con 578 (44.9; -3.7)
[English Democrats (0.0; -21.1)]
[LD (0.0; -30.3)]
Majority 132
Turnout 28.97%UKIP gain from LD
Percentage change is since May 2011.
Comments
Pushpendra says
An excellent alircte, but I think the situation is even more alarming than that one party gets 75% of the seats from 47% of the voters. 67% of Sheffield's electorate did not vote at all according to the City Council's website.I would add a further comment based on my own experience. I wonder how many of those 47% of the 32.77% who voted actually knew what they were voting for? My efforts to get a copy of the Labour Party's manifesto proved unsuccessful, not even a brief summary. Yet some opponents of the idea of a Mayor for Sheffield were heard to say it would be like buying a pig in a poke!