{"id":70915,"date":"2026-05-07T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=70915"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:33:18","slug":"concern-after-political-signs-vandalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/concern-after-political-signs-vandalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern after political signs vandalised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Campaigners in Sheffield have reported vandalism on outdoor signs as voters take to polling stations today to vote in the local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield City Council has 28 of 84 seats up for election, whereby voters can choose one candidate for their ward. In Barnsley, there is a landmark &#8216;all-out&#8217; local election, where voters can choose three per ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, campaign signs advocating votes for the Green Party have been found damaged around Sheffield, but acts of vandalism are happening nationally and are not exclusive to the Greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/processed-B207D782-4A9B-4462-ADBF-5C938EDD9337-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/processed-B207D782-4A9B-4462-ADBF-5C938EDD9337-980x735.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/processed-B207D782-4A9B-4462-ADBF-5C938EDD9337-480x360.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Voters are selecting their preferred councillors at Polling Stations today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One Green Party member, who lives near Millhouses, contacted ShefNews to say that she had her sign damaged three times- she lives on a main road, so her sign is frequently seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: &#8220;We haven&#8217;t caught the people doing it. All the incidents were reported to the police but due to a lack of evidence they weren&#8217;t able to do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t made me feel less safe but it may be different if we lived somewhere more secluded. It didn&#8217;t worry our seven-year-old either &#8211; instead he was trying to come up with schemes of how we might catch them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that other members in her local WhatsApp group were also targeted overnight on 18 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: &#8220;It made me feel more determined to want to have a sign. I am refusing to be intimidated. The message of the Green Party is something I believe in and want to proudly show with my garden sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of my signs only lasted 48 hours, but I feel like I&#8217;ve won the war of attrition as the fourth sign is still proudly standing on election day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Party member Joe Brindle, who lives in the Broomhill and Sharrow Vale ward, caught somebody in the act while out delivering leaflets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brindle said: &#8220;I actually caught someone stealing one of our placards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was at another member&#8217;s house then I went round the corner to do some leafleting. A few minutes later a guy had a poster board in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I shouted at him to give it back and eventually he did, but he just nicked it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield Green Party said they have helped to replace damaged signs and still &#8216;encourage people to show their support&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More vandalism on outdoor signs has been reported as voters take to polling stations today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":783,"featured_media":71110,"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":[21,82],"tags":[191,420,38,131],"class_list":["post-70915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story","tag-green-party","tag-local-elections","tag-sheffield","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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