The Prime Minister has acknowledged the elections will be a \u201cchallenge\u201d but urged voters to \u201cchoose unity over division\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labour Councillor Tom Hunt, the leader of Sheffield City Council, said in a social media post yesterday: \u201cThis election is not about Westminster, it is about our city and our streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVote to reject hate and division, vote for unity and a practical plan to get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2024 elections only saw a 34% overall turnout nationally and 32.7% locally which suggests council seats could be won based on people choosing not to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ShefLive spoke to voters at a polling station in Endcliffe on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dave Jones, 72 from Endcliffe said: \u201cif you don\u2019t vote, you don\u2019t have a say in how things are organised, so I think it\u2019s very important to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou cannot complain if you don\u2019t like the ways things are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Billie Hampshire, 19, Sheffield student told Sheff live the voting process is \u201cstraightforward\u201d and said, \u201cvoting gives people a taste in how they decide how society is run.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Polling stations are open across Sheffield between 7am-10pm and voters can vote anytime between that window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you registered to vote your polling station will be written on your poll card, which should have been sent to you by the local council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are in the queue before 10pm you still have the right to vote and do not have to leave the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A third of Sheffield’s council seats are up for election on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":61275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,137,5,10,4],"tags":[135,1285,1254,1284,12,55],"class_list":["post-61273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2","category-council","category-news","category-politics","category-top-story","tag-sheffieldnews","tag-elections2026","tag-labour","tag-localelections","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61282,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273\/revisions\/61282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-105821.png\")
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