Sunderland City Council election, 2000
The 2000 Sunderland Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and Wear, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]
After the election, the composition of the council was
- Labour 62
- Conservative 10
- Liberal Democrat 2
- Liberal 1[2]
Voting trial
After the 1999 election saw turnout drop as low as 12% in one ward, Sunderland became one of 31 councils which trialed ways of increasing turnout.[3] Sunderland introduced mobile polling stations and also had polling booths in 3 libraries in the week before the election.[3] Due to the early voting a student was able to legally vote while still 17 years old as she turned 18 on polling day itself.[4]
Election result
The results saw Labour remain in control of the council after losing 2 seats to the Conservatives.[5]
| Sunderland Local Election Result 2000[6] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | ||
| Labour | 20 | -2 | 80.0 | |||||||
| Conservative | 4 | +2 | 16.0 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrat | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Sunderland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
- ↑ "Local council results". Financial Times. 2000-05-06. p. 6.
- 1 2 Hetherington, Peter (2000-04-25). "Armchair rebels threaten Labour hopes: Local elections: Party workers fear disillusionment and apathy as expected low turnouts prompt experiments to woo the voters". The Guardian. p. 8.
- ↑ "Marking her card at sweet seventeen". The Northern Echo. 2000-04-29. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
- ↑ Carlin, Brendan (2000-05-06). "Labour reflects on bad night that could have been worse". The Northern Echo. p. 3.
- ↑ "Election results: local councils". The Times. 2000-05-06. p. 10.
| Preceded by Sunderland Council election, 1999 |
Sunderland local elections | Succeeded by Sunderland Council election, 2002 |
