{"id":60478,"date":"2024-05-03T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=60478"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T10:57:13","slug":"barnsley-votes-labour-majority-and-conservatives-lose-their-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/barnsley-votes-labour-majority-and-conservatives-lose-their-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnsley votes: Labour majority and Conservatives lose their seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Labour Party has taken 17 out of 21 seats in the local elections in Barnsley today, continuing its control of the council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillor Sir Stephen Houghton CBE, leader of the council was re-elected in Cudworth ward. He said: \u201cWe\u2019ve managed to maintain our majority which was the first target and of course we\u2019re looking beyond Barnsley to what is happening elsewhere, and clearly Labour is doing well in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe message, I think, of today is that the Conservative\u2019s days of government are over, they\u2019re just treading water till the election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Labour Party took one seat from the Conservatives and three from the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Conservatives lost their seat in Penistone East today and gained none. This means they only have one Tory seat left in the entire council.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s has been a privilege to stand as the Penistone East candidate \ud83c\udf39 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymOeCK4z7f\">pic.twitter.com\/ymOeCK4z7f<\/a><\/p>&mdash; john roberts (@jrobertspeneast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrobertspeneast\/status\/1786137754062999766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Millar, the Conservative candidate for Penistone East, said: \u201cUsually when I go door knocking it will start off on a national level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He agreed that local councillors were having to answer for the national government\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leyla Nayeri (Liberal Democrat) was elected into the Darton East seat which has been empty since November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cFirst and foremost I want to go out and say thank you to all the residents who have been out and voted, whether that\u2019s for me or for another party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberal Democrats took four seats today but only gained one due to a three seat loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lib Dem Councillor for Kingston Ward Steve Bullock said: \u201cI\u2019m very pleased. I wish we could get more young people out to vote. That\u2019s what disappoints me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voter turnout was 0.58 per cent lower than last year with an overall turnout of 24.14 per cent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only parties to win today were Labour and the Lib Dems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire, said before the count: &#8220;What you hear is that people are frustrated, let down, disappointed and angry about the state of this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re in a broken Britain because of this Tory government and what we&#8217;ve seen in the ballot box so far is that people are letting their feelings be known.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When discussing his chances in the mayoral vote, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m hopeful that what we&#8217;ve shown over the last two years is that we can do a good job for this region and provide the leadership this region needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of the key local election results in Barnsley today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":60480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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