| Election Name: | 2002 Sheffield City Council election |
| Country: | England |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2000 Sheffield City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2000 |
| Next Election: | 2003 Sheffield City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
| Seats For Election: | One third of seats (29 of 87) to Sheffield City Council |
| Majority Seats: | 44 |
| Election Date: | 2 May 2002 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats1: | 19 |
| Seat Change1: | 7 |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats2: | 10 |
| Seat Change2: | 5 |
| Party3: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats3: | 0 |
| Seat Change3: | 0 |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| Majority party | |
| Posttitle: | Majority party after election |
| Before Election: | Liberal Democrats |
| After Election: | No Overall Control |
Sheffield City Council elections took place on 2 May 2002. One third of seats were up for election. Since the previous election, the Liberal Democrats and Labour had each suffered one defection - Ronald Shepherd left the Labour grouping to sit as an Independent and Lib Dem Matthew Dixon defected, firstly as an Independent and then to the Conservatives. In this time an earlier Lib Dem defector, Trefor Morgan, also changed from an Independent to Liberal.
Following this election, the council returned to no overall control, as the sizable swing from Lib Dem to Labour allowed Labour to gain five seats directly from the Lib Dems, and two from earlier defections, making Labour narrowly the largest party with 43 seats to the Lib Dem's 42. Overall turnout was 30.0%.[1]
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:
| valign=top colspan="2" style="width: 230px" | Party | valign=top style="width: 30px" | Previous council | valign=top style="width: 30px" | New council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 36 | 43 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 47 | 42 | |||
| Conservatives | 2 | 2 | |||
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | |||
| Liberal | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 87 | 87 | |||
| Working majority | |||||