2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election - Wikipedia
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The 2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. 24 of the 72 seats were up for election.[1]
Sandwell is a consistently Labour council. Labour have held majorities every election since its creation in 1973, apart from 1978 when the Conservatives gained the council.[2] From 2018 to 2021, Sandwell was one of the few councils to be comprised fully of 1 party, with Labour in control of all 72 wards.[3] In the 2021 election, Labour lost 9 seats with 53.1% of the vote, the Conservatives gained 9 with 36.6%, and independents did not make any gains or losses with 4.6% of the vote.
The seats up for election this year were last elected in 2018. In that election, Labour won all seats with 68.5% of the vote, giving them full control of the council. The Conservatives won 24.4%.
Previous council composition
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| After 2021 election | Before 2022 election[4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| Labour | 58 | Labour | 59 | ||
| Conservative | 9 | Conservative | 9 | ||
| Independent | 4 | Independent | 1 | ||
| Sandwell Together | 0 | Sandwell Together | 2 |
Changes:
- November 2021: Rajbir Singh (Labour) resigns from council; seat left vacant until 2022 election[5]
- January 2022: Ian Chambers joins Labour from the Conservatives[6]
- April 2022: Iqbal Singh Padda joins Conservatives from Labour[7]
- Independent councillors Yvonne Davies and Joanne Hadley form Sandwell Together[8]
| 2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Labour | 21 |  3
|
87.5 | 40 | 61 | 84.7 | 34,847 | 57.5 | +4.4 | |
| Conservative | 3 |  3
|
12.5 | 6 | 9 | 13.9 | 20,881 | 34.4 | -2.2 | |
| Independent | 0 | 
|
0.0 | 2 | 2 | 1.4 | 2,137 | 3.5 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 |
|
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2,146 | 3.5 | +1.0 | |
| TUSC | 0 |
|
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 302 | 0.5 | +0.2 | |
| Reform UK | 0 |
|
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 203 | 0.3 | -0.6 | |
| For Britain | 0 |
|
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 74 | 0.1 | ±0.0 | |
| Yeshua | 0 |
|
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 38 | 0.1 | ±0.0 |
An asterisk indicates an incumbent councillor.
Charlemont with Grove Vale
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Cradley Heath and Old Hill
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Great Barr with Yew Tree
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Greets Green and Lyng
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West Bromwich Central
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- ^ "Election timetable in England". GOV.UK. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ Brassington, Jamie (7 May 2021). "Conservative local election success means Sandwell Council has an opposition again". Express and Star. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Councillors by Party". sandwell.gov. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ Storer, Rhi (18 November 2021). "Rajbir Singh steps down as Sandwell councillor". Halesowen News. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ Storer, Rhi (20 January 2022). "Sandwell Conservative councillor defects to Labour". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ Madeley, Peter (5 April 2022). "More chaos in Sandwell as Labour cabinet member quits party to stand for Tories". Express and Star. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Councillors by Party: Sandwell Together party | Sandwell Council". www.sandwell.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Statement of Persons Nominated". Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 16 April 2022.