| Election Name: | 2023 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Seats For Election: | 24 of 72 seats on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 37 |
| Election Date: | 4 May 2023 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader1: | Kerrie Carmichael[1] |
| Last Election1: | 21 |
| Seats Before1: | 57 |
| Seats After1: | 60 |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader2: | David Fisher |
| Last Election2: | 3 |
| Seats Before2: | 10 |
| Seats After2: | 12 |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 0 |
| Seats Before4: | 2 |
| Seats After4: | 0 |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Last Election5: | 0 |
| Seats Before5: | 2 |
| Seats After5: | 0 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Kerrie Carmichael |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2023 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council elections were held on 4 May 2023 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. One third of seats on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council are up for election.
Labour retained its majority on the council. Both Labour and the Conservatives gained seats, whilst the Liberal Democrats and independents lost all their seats, leaving only two parties represented on the council after the election.[2] [3]
Sandwell is a consistently Labour council. Labour have held majorities every election since its creation in 1973, apart from 1978 when the Conservatives gained the council.[4] From 2018 to 2021, Sandwell was one of the few councils to be comprised fully of one party, with Labour in control of all 72 wards.[5] In the most recent election in 2022 election Labour lost three seats, while the Conservatives gained three.[6]
The seats up for election this year were last elected in 2019. In that election, Labour won all 24 seats with 58.6% of the vote, giving them full control of the council.
| After 2022 election | Before 2023 election[7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 61 | 57 | |||||
| 9 | 9 | |||||
| 0 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||
| vacant | 1 | |||||