What happens now at my council after the elections?

Residents in South Yorkshire will soon gain an idea of how their new-look local council will operate.

Reform UK is now in charge of Barnsley Council - ending 50 years of Labour rule - while Sheffield City Council remains in no overall control.

All the political parties will spend the next few days regrouping and meeting privately to decide who will be their leaders and senior teams. They will also say goodbye to long-standing colleagues who lost their seats after many years.

Here's a little recap on last week's events and what is now due to happen next.

Barnsley Council was Labour controlled for half a century, but Reform is now firmly in power following voting on Thursday.

There are now 42 Reform councillors, 11 Labour, eight Liberal Democrats and two Independents on the local authority.

In Sheffield, there are now 25 Labour, 22 Lib Dems, 20 Greens, 13 Reform and four Independents.

Before the election, no single party was in overall control on Sheffield City Council, and that situation remains.

Labour has a very slight majority, but not enough to take full control of the local authority.

Sheffield City Council was led by Labour's Tom Hunt, however he lost his Walkley seat by 73 votes to the Greens.

This leaves no current council leader on the local authority.

There will be an annual general meeting on 21 May when a new council leader will be elected by all councillors.

As Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens have a similar number of seats, it's difficult to predict who the new leader will be.

There may be several votes at the meeting before one is confirmed.

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Over in Barnsley, council leader Sir Stephen Houghton retained his seat by just 23 votes.

He will remain a Labour councillor but will no longer be council leader.

He has already spoken about clearing out his office this week to make way for the new Reform council leader – an office he has made decisions from for the past 30 years.

Barnsley Council has its annual general meeting on 29 May, when the new leader will officially take over.

Until then, Sir Steve stays in position but won't make any new policies under the caretaker role.

Sheffield Labour has announced Fran Belbin as its new leader, she replaces Tom Hunt and was previously deputy leader of Labour.

Councillor Martin Smith remains as leader for Sheffield Liberal Democrats and Sheffield Green Party will keep Angela Argenzio at the helm.

John Hesketh is the leader of Sheffield Reform councillors – he already has experience as he was a Lib Dem councillor for several years in the early 2000s.

Over in Barnsley, Reform will meet later to decide a new leader. They will also become the new council leader.

Reform says it should also have a group leadership team in place by the end of Tuesday.

There will also be discussions with Labour councillors about whether Sir Stephen stays on as Labour leader or moves aside for someone new.

New councillors in Barnsley will attend their first induction day on Tuesday, when they will receive council identification and contact emails.

Reform asked residents to be patient with new representatives, as the group said the council's training programme will last almost five weeks.

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