2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election

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2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election
3 May 2018 2022  
Turnout25.9%
 
Candidate Dan Jarvis Ian WalkerHannah Kitching
Party Labour Co-op Conservative Liberal Democrats
1st Round vote122,63537,73827,146
Percentage47.1%14.5%10.4%
2nd Round vote144,15450,619Eliminated
Percentage74.0%26.0%Eliminated

 
CandidateMick BowerRob MurphyDavid Allen
Party Yorkshire Green English Democrat
1st Round vote22,31820,33914,547
Percentage8.6%7.8%5.6%
2nd Round voteEliminatedEliminatedEliminated
PercentageEliminatedEliminatedEliminated

Sheffield City Region 2018 Round 1 Map.png
Sheffield City Region 2018 Round 2 Map.png

Elected Mayor

Dan Jarvis
Labour Co-op

The inaugural Sheffield City Region mayoral election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect the mayor of the Sheffield City Region. The mayor will lead the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. Voting is restricted to the four councils which are constituent members of the combined authority: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Together these councils make up South Yorkshire.

Contents

As the election took place using the supplementary vote system, electors were able to vote for a "first preference" candidate and a "second preference" candidate. The leading candidate needed to achieve over 50% of the first preference votes in order to be elected in the first round. As the leading candidate, Dan Jarvis, received 47.1% of the total number of votes in the first round, the election proceeded to the second round and voters second preferences were distributed between the two leading candidates. Dan Jarvis, the Labour and Co-operative candidate, was subsequently elected in the second round with a total number of 144,154 votes.

Subsequent elections will be held in May 2022 and every four years after. [1]

Electoral system

The election used a supplementary vote system, in which voters express a first and second preference of candidates. [2]

This means that the winning candidate has the support of a majority of voters who expressed a preference among the top two.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in the combined authority area aged 18 or over on 3 May 2018 were entitled to vote in the mayoral election.

Results

Overall

Sheffield City Region Mayoral Election 2018 [3]
PartyCandidate1st round2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
TotalOf roundTransfersTotalOf round
Labour Co-op Dan Jarvis 122,63547.1%21,519144,15474.0%
Conservative Ian Walker37,73814.5%12,88150,61926.0%
Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching27,14610.4%
Yorkshire Mick Bower22,3188.6%
Green Robert Murphy20,3397.8%
English Democrat David Allen14,5475.6%
South Yorkshire Save Our NHSNaveen Judah10,8374.2%
Majority
Turnout 260,26025.8% Rejected ballots: 4,713
Labour Co-op win

By area

Barnsley

PartyCandidate1st round votes %
Labour Co-op Dan Jarvis30,25066.7
Conservative Ian Walker4,77410.5
Yorkshire Mick Bower3,1587.0
Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching2,3025.1
English Democrat David Allen1,7543.9
Green Robert Murphy1,2492.8
South Yorkshire Save Our NHSNaveen Judah1,2062.7
Rejected ballots 6861.5
Turnout 45,37925.4

Doncaster

PartyCandidate1st round votes %
Labour Co-op Dan Jarvis19,65343.9
Conservative Ian Walker7,74717.3
Yorkshire Mick Bower6,15613.7
English Democrat David Allen5,71312.8
South Yorkshire Save Our NHSNaveen Judah1,9804.4
Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching1,7553.9
Green Robert Murphy1,2802.9
Rejected ballots 4901.1
Turnout 44,77420.1

Rotherham

PartyCandidate1st round votes %
Labour Co-op Dan Jarvis18,68044.7
Conservative Ian Walker7,07116.9
Yorkshire Mick Bower6,42215.4
South Yorkshire Save Our NHSNaveen Judah2,7246.5
English Democrat David Allen2,5166.0
Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching2,1455.1
Green Robert Murphy1,6864.0
Rejected ballots 5261.3
Turnout 41,77021.4

Sheffield

PartyCandidate1st round votes %
Labour Co-op Dan Jarvis54,05242.1
Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching20,94416.3
Conservative Ian Walker18,14614.1
Green Robert Murphy16,12412.6
Yorkshire Mick Bower6,5825.1
South Yorkshire Save Our NHSNaveen Judah4,9273.8
English Democrat David Allen4,5643.6
Rejected ballots 3,0112.3
Turnout 128,35031.7

Candidates

Conservative Party

Green Party of England and Wales

English Democrats

Labour Party

Selection vote [9]
CandidateVotesPercentage
Dan Jarvis 2,584
57.6%
Ben Curran1,903
42.4%

Liberal Democrats

South Yorkshire Save Our NHS

Yorkshire Party

Endorsements

Dan Jarvis

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