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2014 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election

A total of 67,970 votes were cast. There were 508 spoiled ballots. The turnout was 34.79% The 2014 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
10	10	0	10	48.0	44.3	30,084	28.5
11	0	8	8	52.0	40.9	27,793	0.9
0	0	2	2	0.0	9.5	6,482	12.6
0	0	0		0.0	2.8	1,886	6.8
0	0	0		0.0	0.7	487	0.5
0	0	0		0.0	0.7	484	0.7
0	0	0		0.0	0.6	395	0.6
0	0	0		0.0	0.3	223	0.3
0	0	0		0.0	0.2	136	3.0

A total of 67,970 votes were cast. There were 508 spoiled ballots. The turnout was 34.79% The 2014 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

A third of the seats was in play. The Councillors in this class were previously elected during the 2010 Rotherham Council election, in which Labour swept 19 out of 21 wards with 44% of the votes, thanks to the very divided opposition (Conservative, UKIP, BNP as well as Independents).

This was the first election since the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal broke. Turnout declined to about half of its 2010 figure (down to 34.79%). UKIP made huge gains, taking 10 of the 21 seats in play, their first ever at the Council.

Opposition to Labour was roughly equivalent to the levels of 2007, but Labour's majority on the Council was still safe despite being reduced from 58 to 50 (out of 63).

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
58	4	1
Labour	Con	Ind

After the election the composition of the council was:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
50	10	2	1
Labour	UKIP	Con	Ind

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	1,339	38.8	−0.8
	UKIP	1,308	37.9	+26.7
	Conservative	555	16.1	−19.7
	Green	251	7.2	New
31	0.9
3,453	38.9	−28.7
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,428	39.2	−1.8
	UKIP	1,267	34.8	+21.5
	Conservative	424	11.7	−9.1
	Respect	267	7.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	136	3.8	−11.8
	TUSC	118	3.2	N/A
161	4.4
3,640	38.8	−22.7
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,651	50.6	+3.7
	UKIP	1,611	49.4	+42.0
40	0.8
3,262	35.2	−26.4
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,293	42.1	+20.9
	Labour	1,195	39.0	−10.8
	Independent	579	18.9	N/A
98	3.1
3,067	31.8	−26.9
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,825	51.7	+20.0
	Labour	1,150	32.6	−10.2
	Conservative	552	15.7	−5.3
201	19.1
3,527	37.9	−27.3
	UKIP gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,064	31.6	−1.4
	UKIP	1,061	31.5	+27.4
	Independent	557	16.5	N/A
	Conservative	361	10.7	+3.3
	Independent	226	6.7	N/A
	TUSC	100	3.0	N/A
3	0.1
3,369	35.1	−27.8
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,362	47.1	−4.1
	UKIP	1,151	39.8	+23.1
	Conservative	377	13.1	−9.1
211	7.3
2,890	30.6	−27.3
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,658	49.6	+23.8
	Labour	1,258	37.6	−9.3
	Conservative	426	12.8	−1.3
400	12.0
3,342	36.3	−26.7
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,183	41.9	+2.1
	UKIP	1,120	39.6	+30.9
	Independent	524	18.5	+11.1
63	2.3
2,827	31.9	−23.6
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,563	52.0	+35.6
	Labour	1,220	40.5	−14.5
	Conservative	227	7.5	−9.5
343	11.5
3,010	31.5	−22.6
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,444	53.1	+22.0
	Labour	1,097	40.4	−15.8
	TUSC	177	6.5	N/A
347	12.7
2,718	30.2	−28.0
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,460	49.7	−15.8
	UKIP	1,240	42.2	+22.0
	Green	236	8.1	N/A
220	7.5
2,936	32.2	−17.5
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,567	44.0	+29.7
	Labour	1,528	42.9	−1.8
	Conservative	248	7.0	−5.9
	Respect	217	6.1	N/A
39	1.1
3,560	37.5	−19.7
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,672	51.8	+17.1
	Labour	1,133	35.1	−14.3
	Conservative	425	13.1	+0.7
539	16.7
3,230	33.8	−25.3
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,776	42.5	+30.2
	Conservative	1,101	26.3	−15.2
	Labour	1,084	25.9	−8.7
	Patients not Profits	223	5.3	N/A
675	16.2
4,184	44.3	−24.4
	UKIP gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,464	46.4	−9.0
	UKIP	1,405	44.5	+17.9
	Conservative	286	9.1	−9.4
59	1.9
3,155	34.5	−24.2
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,572	53.1	New
	Labour	1,387	46.9	+2.2
185	6.2	N/A
2,959	32.0	+22.0
	UKIP gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,386	44.8	+3.5
	UKIP	1,108	35.8	+22.4
	Conservative	601	19.4	−13.3
278	9.0
3,095	35.4	−30.6
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,558	47.6	−7.5
	UKIP	1,409	43.1	+17.6
	Conservative	303	9.3	−10.2
149	4.5
3,270	32.5	−26.5
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,685	47.3	−1.2
	UKIP	1,482	41.7	+26.5
	Conservative	392	11.0	−15.1
203	5.6
3,559	38.4	−24.5
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	1,552	53.2	+47.0
	Labour	1,161	39.8	+0.8
	Conservative	204	7.0	−3.0
391	13.4	N/A
2,917	32.2	−22.8
	UKIP gain from Labour

Results from the Rotherham MBC website Archived 12 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine

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