My assessment of tactical voting in Sheffield - reader's letter
Geoff Cox from Sheffield gives his view on tactical voting in the local elections...
Whatever the differences between Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens on Sheffield City Council, they are pretty minor in comparison to the damage that Reform UK Limited’s chancers will bring to the city’s politics if elected.
Vote tactically wherever you need to.
Lend your vote to whichever party is best placed to defeat the Reform candidate in your ward.
Be assured someone else reading this letter will be voting for your preferred party in a different ward.
Tactical voting is the smart thing to do – its more popular that you may think.
My non-partisan assessment of tactical voting by wards for Sheffield concludes that:
Where only one party is targeting a seat it effectively means the others don’t think they can win, and this is then case in about 12 of the 28 Sheffield Wards in 2026.
If there is no historic evidence of particular support for far right parties in certain wards, or no current doorstep evidence, then tactical voting isn’t needed and there is no need for a preferred candidate – as is the case in about 11 of the 28 Sheffield wards in 2026.
This leaves just five wards where there are believed to be two or more parties targeting the seat and some degree of Reform threat. In these wards an educated judgement can be made on the best placed party
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