| Country: | West Midlands |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Next Election: | 2026 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election |
| Seats For Election: | 24 of 72 seats to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 37 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader1: | Kerrie Carmichael |
| Last Election1: | 60 seats, 57.8% |
| Seats Before1: | 59 |
| Seats1: | 22 |
| Seats After1: | 64 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 36,990 |
| Percentage1: | 56.9% |
| Swing1: | 0.9% |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader2: | David Fisher |
| Last Election2: | 12 seats, 28.5% |
| Seats Before2: | 8 |
| Seats2: | 1 |
| Seats After2: | 5 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| Popular Vote2: | 13,815 |
| Percentage2: | 21.3% |
| Swing2: | 7.2% |
| Party3: | Independent politician |
| Last Election3: | 0 seats, 2.6% |
| Seats Before3: | 5 |
| Seats3: | 1 |
| Seats After3: | 3 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 2,949 |
| Percentage3: | 4.5% |
| Swing3: | 1.9% |
| Map Size: | 375px |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Kerrie Carmichael |
| Before Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Kerrie Carmichael |
| After Party: | Labour Party (UK) |
The 2024 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council elections was held on 2 May 2024 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom and the 2024 West Midlands mayoral election.[1] One third of seats on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council were up for election.[2] The council remained under Labour majority control.
Sandwell is a consistently Labour council, with Labour having held majorities in every election since its creation in 1973, apart from 1978 when the Conservatives gained the council.[3] 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.[4] In the previous election in 2023 both Labour and the Conservatives gained two seats each, the councillors on these seats having either switched to the Liberal Democrats or gone independent after the 2022 election.
Both of the parties have lost councillors over the last year. The majority of these have not had the reasons behind publicly revealed. However, it is known that Councillor Jay Anandou left the Conservatives over the rest of his party failing to back his campaign to stop development on the former Brandhall Golf Club.[5] Additionally, two councillors switched from Conservative to Labour, citing a lack of faith in the Conservatives' ability to govern.[6]
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[7] | After 2024 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 60 | 59 | 64 | ||||||
| 12 | 8 | 5 | ||||||
| 0 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
Labour increased their majority on the council at the election. The Conservatives lost three seats, including that of their group leader, David Fletcher.[8]