Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council elections

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. One third of the council is elected each year, except for every fourth year when there is no election. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, councillors are elected from 21 wards.

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 1979 election and more recently the 2004 election prompting the whole council to be elected in those years.

Year	Labour	Conservative	Liberal / Lib Dem	Independent	Ratepayers / Residents	Independent Labour	Barnsley Independent	Democrats and Veterans	Reform UK
Year
1973	57	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
1975	48	1	2	1	6	2	0	0	0
1976	39	1	5	1	11	3	0	0	0
1978	37	1	5	1	14	2	0	0	0
1979	41	3	1	0	18	3	0	0	0
1980	46	3	1	0	13	3	0	0	0
1982	53	2	4	0	7	0	0	0	0
1983	58	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	0
1984	59	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
1986	62	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1987	62	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1988	62	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1990	62	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
1991	62	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1992	63	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1994	62	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1995	64	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1996	63	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1998	63	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1999	59	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
2000	52	3	3	8	0	0	0	0	0
2002	49	4	3	10	0	0	0	0	0
2003	47	5	4	10	0	0	0	0	0
2004	33	5	3	22	0	0	0	0	0
2006	34	5	2	0	0	0	22	0	0
2007	33	5	2	2	0	0	21	0	0
2008	32	6	1	2	0	0	22	0	0
2010	37	6	1	1	0	0	18	0	0
2011	43	6	0	1	0	0	13	0	0
2012	52	5	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
2014	53	4	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
2015	55	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
2016	55	3	1	0	0	0	4	0	0
2018	56	4	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
2019	49	3	4	2	0	0	3	2	0
2021	49	3	7	3	0	0	1	0	0
2022	46	4	9	3	0	0	1	0	0
2023	48	2	10	2	0	0	0	0	1
2024	48	1	11	2	0	0	0	0	1