2000 Sunderland City Council election

2000 UK local government election March 2025 December 2013 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk_politics/vote2000/locals/120.stm Sunderland 2010-12-21 BBC News After the election, the composition of the council was: Labour 62 Conservative 10 Liberal Democrat 2 Liberal 1 Local council results Financial Times 6 2000-05-06 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. Peter Hetherington 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 8 2000-04-25 Sunderland introduced mobile polling stations and also had polling booths in 3 libraries in the week before the election. 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. Marking her card at sweet seventeen 2000-04-29 The Northern Echo Election result The results saw Labour remain in control of the council after losing 2 seats to the Conservatives. Brendan Carlin Labour reflects on bad night that could have been worse The Northern Echo 3 2000-05-06 Sunderland local election result 2000 Election results: local councils The Times London 10 2000-05-06 Labour Party (UK) 20 -2 80.0 Conservative Party (UK) 4 +2 16.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) 1 0 4.0 References 1999 Sunderland City Council election Sunderland City Council elections 2002 Sunderland City Council election Category:2000 English local elections 2000 Category:2000s in Tyne and Wear