1973 Sheffield City Council election
Elections to Sheffield Council were held on 10 May 1973.
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The first elections to the newly created metropolitan borough council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 90 seat council - three seats for each of the thirty wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.
Election result
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Labour | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76.6 | 54.9 | 67,886 | N/A | |
Conservative | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 28.7 | 35,479 | N/A | |
Liberal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 12.6 | 15,556 | N/A | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 3,117 | N/A | |
Communist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 1,597 | N/A | |
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:
Party | New council | |
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Labour | 69 | |
Conservatives | 18 | |
Liberals | 3 | |
Communist | 0 | |
Total | 90 | |
Working majority | 48 |
Ward results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harry Firth | 1,659 | 84.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Norman Eldred | 1,653 | |||
Labour | Jim Pearson | 1,553 | |||
Conservative | Hedley Oldfield | 295 | 15.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Derek Eastwood | 287 | |||
Conservative | Patricia Oldfield | 272 | |||
Majority | 1,258 | 69.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,954 | 21.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eric Crewe | 3,165 | 53.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Danny George | 3,139 | |||
Conservative | Cliff Godber | 3,078 | |||
Liberal | Royden Fairfax | 1,556 | 26.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Jennifer Norris | 1,330 | |||
Liberal | Rita Gurson | 1,272 | |||
Labour | Peter Cave | 1,149 | 19.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Pat Waugh | 1,103 | |||
Labour | Jock Sturrock | 1,087 | |||
Majority | 1,522 | 27.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,870 | 38.2 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John G Marshall | 3,005 | 71.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Tom Ratcliffe | 2,947 | |||
Labour | George Fisher | 2,929 | |||
Conservative | Gordon Millward | 1,219 | 28.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Betts | 1,153 | |||
Conservative | Moira Disney | 1,138 | |||
Majority | 1,710 | 42.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,224 | 26.3 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bill Michie | 2,339 | 83.4 | N/A | |
Labour | George Wilson | 2,311 | |||
Labour | Peter Price | 2,310 | |||
Conservative | Nesta Bennett | 367 | 13.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Julian Birch | 367 | |||
Conservative | Paul Mort | 265 | |||
Communist | Reg Arundel | 98 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,943 | 70.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,804 | 22.1 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Graham Cheetham | 2,184 | 46.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Irvine Patnick | 2,179 | |||
Conservative | Marvyn Moore | 2,150 | |||
Liberal | John Isard | 1,285 | 27.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Keith Jackson | 1,282 | |||
Liberal | Dennis Tester | 1,247 | |||
Labour | David Brown | 1,193 | 25.6 | N/A | |
Labour | John Halstead | 1,187 | |||
Labour | Pauline Harrison | 1,177 | |||
Majority | 865 | 19.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,662 | 27.4 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Francis Butler | 3,366 | 63.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Malcolm Johnson | 2,884 | |||
Liberal | Don Sparkes | 2,840 | |||
Labour | Charlotte Ellis | 1,688 | 31.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Alan Billings | 1,571 | |||
Labour | Bill Robins | 1,516 | |||
Conservative | David Chapman | 246 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Dodson | 186 | |||
Conservative | Chris Verheart | 113 | |||
Majority | 1,152 | 31.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,300 | 42.4 | N/A | ||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reg Munn | 1,978 | 79.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Peter Horton | 1,957 | |||
Labour | Roy Munn | 1,920 | |||
Conservative | Margaret Beatson | 394 | 15.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Emma Sizer | 380 | |||
Conservative | Ian Beatson | 374 | |||
Communist | Violet Gill | 118 | 4.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,526 | 63.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,490 | 20.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Steel | 2,322 | 37.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Arthur Bradbury | 2,079 | |||
Labour | Lawrence Kingham | 1,961 | |||
Independent | Richard Endall | 1,866 | 30.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Betty Burton | 1,720 | 27.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Eric Wadsworth | 1,549 | |||
Communist | Robert McAteer | 262 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 95 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,719 | 60.3 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Frank Prince | 2,682 | 77.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Sidney Dyson | 2,643 | |||
Labour | Isidore Lewis | 2,580 | |||
Conservative | Kathleen Circuit | 796 | 22.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Dorothy Rose | 748 | |||
Conservative | Margaret Broomhead | 711 | |||
Majority | 1,784 | 54.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,478 | 24.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Hebblethwaite | 3,247 | 69.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | David Heslop | 3,175 | |||
Conservative | Pat Santhouse | 3,167 | |||
Labour | Kenneth Davies | 1,411 | 30.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Win Francis | 1,386 | |||
Labour | Robert Jones | 1,361 | |||
Majority | 1,756 | 39.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,658 | 32.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Pinder | 3,194 | 73.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Neill | 3,109 | |||
Conservative | Agnes Edeson | 3,027 | |||
Labour | Elizabeth Callister | 1,169 | 26.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Elsie Richardson | 1,145 | |||
Labour | Norman Mosforth | 1,110 | |||
Majority | 1,868 | 46.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,363 | 28.2 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Morris | 2,404 | 56.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Valerie Potts | 2,399 | |||
Labour | Terry Butler | 2,392 | |||
Liberal | John Butler | 1,371 | 32.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Albert Hattersley | 1,150 | |||
Liberal | Brian Hepworth | 1,083 | |||
Conservative | Geoffrey Ward | 424 | 9.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Bryan Dick | 419 | |||
Conservative | Anthony Williams | 401 | |||
Communist | Barry Bracken | 91 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,021 | 24.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,289 | 29.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Richardson | 3,177 | 61.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Jack Green | 3,148 | |||
Labour | Joe Thomas | 3,143 | |||
Conservative | Jack Thompson | 1,983 | 38.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mary Davison | 1,917 | |||
Conservative | Stuart Dawson | 1,898 | |||
Majority | 1,160 | 23.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,160 | 29.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Jackson | 2,540 | 51.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Gordon Wragg | 2,457 | |||
Conservative | Kenneth Arnold | 2,454 | |||
Labour | Dennis Brown | 1,376 | 27.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Peter Bulger | 1,318 | |||
Labour | Veronica South | 1,292 | |||
Liberal | Jean Mason | 1,052 | 21.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Lawton Tonge | 1,003 | |||
Liberal | Paul Metcalfe | 931 | |||
Majority | 1,078 | 23.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,968 | 32.1 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Nicholls | 2,665 | 76.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Leonard Cope | 2,660 | |||
Labour | Annie Britton | 2,632 | |||
Conservative | Christine Selby | 830 | 23.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Alfred Grimes | 828 | |||
Conservative | Roger Attwood | 805 | |||
Majority | 1,802 | 52.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,495 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mick Batty | 3,061 | 60.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Winifred Golding | 2,939 | |||
Labour | John Senior | 2,923 | |||
Conservative | Phillip Baker | 1,217 | 24.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Richard Clarke | 1,167 | |||
Conservative | Joyce Palmer | 1,125 | |||
Liberal | Bob Jackson | 572 | 11.4 | N/A | |
Communist | Martin Ashworth | 173 | 3.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,756 | 36.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,023 | 31.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alf Meade | 2,977 | 58.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Bill Meade | 2,963 | |||
Labour | Geoff Fairbrother | 2,943 | |||
Conservative | Frank Adams | 2,126 | 41.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Kathleene Moore | 2,028 | |||
Conservative | Frank Brookes | 2,019 | |||
Majority | 817 | 16.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,103 | 35.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joe Albaya | 2,607 | 59.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Arnold Wood | 2,584 | |||
Labour | Tom Woodhead | 2,349 | |||
Conservative | Joan Ward | 1,009 | 23.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Arthur Egginton | 972 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Bannister | 954 | |||
Liberal | David Winn | 749 | 17.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,377 | 36.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,365 | 26.9 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Armitage | 2,727 | 84.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Dora Fitter | 2,700 | |||
Labour | Marie Rodgers | 2,566 | |||
Conservative | Pat Barnsley | 331 | 10.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Katherine Pinder | 330 | |||
Conservative | Roger Barnsley | 312 | |||
Communist | John Hukin | 172 | 5.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,235 | 44.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,908 | 26.5 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dorothy Walton | 1,895 | 77.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Mary Anne Foulds | 1,890 | |||
Labour | Harry Havenhand | 1,869 | |||
Conservative | Edley Keeton | 539 | 22.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Anne Keeton | 503 | |||
Majority | 1,332 | 55.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,432 | 25.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Earl | 1,938 | 49.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jean Grindrod | 1,933 | |||
Conservative | Connie Dodson | 1,916 | |||
Labour | Leon Harris | 1,179 | 30.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Daphne Billings | 1,176 | |||
Labour | Malcolm Leary | 1,149 | |||
Liberal | Peter Metcalfe | 804 | 20.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Harry Hebden | 790 | |||
Liberal | Colin Wood | 781 | |||
Majority | 737 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,921 | 26.4 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Roger Barton | 2,784 | 78.4 | N/A | |
Labour | William Eddison | 2,759 | |||
Labour | Philip Moscrop | 2,665 | |||
Conservative | Anne Roebuck | 557 | 15.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Neil Hebblethwaite | 547 | |||
Conservative | Evelyn Webster | 514 | |||
Communist | Ken Hattersley | 208 | 5.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,108 | 62.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,549 | 27.9 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harold Lambert | 2,323 | 71.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Doris Mulhearn | 2,229 | |||
Labour | Enid Hattersley | 2,106 | |||
Conservative | Moira Hattersley | 810 | 24.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Maisie Hyatt | 649 | |||
Conservative | Merelina Fox | 640 | |||
Communist | Margaret Brown | 124 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,296 | 46.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,257 | 27.8 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Watson | 2,692 | 83.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Mary Kirk | 2,681 | |||
Labour | Harry Hanwell | 2,619 | |||
Conservative | Heather McKenzie | 515 | 16.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Kevin Moore | 477 | |||
Conservative | Stuart Mottershaw | 462 | |||
Majority | 2,104 | 67.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,207 | 22.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Jones | 3,052 | 81.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Sam Wall | 2,968 | |||
Labour | Phillip Grisdale | 2,875 | |||
Conservative | Nick Hutton | 426 | 11.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Fred Barnsley | 414 | |||
Conservative | Denise Barnsley | 381 | |||
Communist | Roy Makin | 249 | 6.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,449 | 70.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,727 | 21.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ethal Evans | 2,346 | 73.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Ian Baxter | 2,281 | |||
Labour | Alf Wood | 2,228 | |||
Conservative | Deryck Beardshaw | 856 | 26.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Kathryn Barnsley | 851 | |||
Conservative | Colin Barnsley | 834 | |||
Majority | 1,372 | 46.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,202 | 27.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | E. Wingfield | 2,977 | 39.6 | N/A | |
Labour | E. Ratcliffe | 2,792 | |||
Labour | John Laurent | 2,698 | |||
Conservative | A. Nicholls | 1,731 | 23.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Richard Saddington | 1,552 | |||
Liberal | D. Stuart | 1,552 | 20.7 | N/A | |
Independent | J. Goddard | 1,251 | 16.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | A. Hardy | 1,030 | |||
Independent | A. Crapper | 705 | |||
Majority | 967 | 19.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,260 | 41.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Blunkett | 2,767 | 87.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Derek Hickin | 2,673 | |||
Labour | Dorothy Podlesny | 2,661 | |||
Conservative | John Chapman | 301 | 9.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ken Platts | 301 | |||
Conservative | Jennifer Chapman | 298 | |||
Communist | George James | 102 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,360 | 77.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,170 | 22.5 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Anthony Sweeney | 2,146 | 41.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Roy Couldwell | 1,801 | |||
Labour | Paul Wood | 1,783 | |||
Liberal | Albert Leather | 1,529 | 29.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Margaret Balfour | 1,453 | 28.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Derek Webster | 1,213 | |||
Majority | 254 | 12.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,128 | 51.4 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Veronica Hardstaff | 2,136 | 73.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Bernard Kidd | 2,072 | |||
Labour | Bill Owen | 2,053 | |||
Conservative | Ivy Parnell | 786 | 26.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Stanley Parnell | 769 | |||
Conservative | Christine Crewe | 766 | |||
Majority | 1,267 | 46.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,922 | 24.8 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
- "Sheffield Local Elections 1973–1995 scans". Retrieved 20 June 2011.