| Election Name: | 1960 Sheffield City Council election |
| Country: | England |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Year: | 1959 |
| Next Election: | 1961 Sheffield City Council election |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
| Seats For Election: | 26 councillors to Sheffield City Council |
| Election Date: | 12 May 1960 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats1: | 14 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| Majority party | |
| Posttitle: | Majority party after election |
| Before Election: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 1960 Sheffield local elections were held on 12 May 1960, with one third of the council up for election, as well as a double vacancy for the Ecclesall ward. The elections seen heavy swings against the ruling Labour Party, resulting in four losses and further narrow defends in wards Labour had represented consistently for a considerable amount of time. The seats Labour lost were Heeley, Moor and Sharrow to the Conservative-Liberals and Firth Park became the first ever win for the Ratepayers Association. Weather was blamed for Labour's slump, with one article labelling it as 'the year of Tory weather', recording a low of 25% turnout.[1]
This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:
| valign=top colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="width: 230px" | Party | valign=top colspan="2" style="width: 30px" | Previous council | valign=top colspan="2" style="width: 30px" | New council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cllr | Ald | Cllr | Ald | ||
| Labour | 54 | 18 | 50 | 17 | |
| Conservative-Liberals | 21 | 7 | 24 | 8 | |
| Ratepayers | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Liberals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 75 | 25 | 75 | 25 | |
| 100 | 100 | ||||
| Working majority | |||||
|- style="background-color:#F6F6F6"! style="background-color: " || colspan="2" | Ratepayers Association gain from Labour.| align="right" | Swing| align="right" ||-