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Reform UK holds a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Sprotbrough is run by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, with Sprotbrough and Cusworth parish council for local matters. Reform UK has a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. Its MP is Ed Miliband (Labour), member for Doncaster North.

Council tax 2026–27

£2,182

Band D, a year, the middle band every council sets its tax from.

Where it goes →
Band D council tax
£2,182
2026–27, a year
Ward councillors
5
2 wards · Doncaster
MP
Ed Miliband
Labour · Doncaster North
Turnout, July 2024
44%
Doncaster North · England 60%
What stands out · In brief

How Sprotbrough’s politics has changed since 2021

A majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Reform UK holds a majority on Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council: 38 of its 55 seats as elected (it held 0 before the May 2025 election). Labour holds 11, the Conservatives 6. Who’s in charge ↓

The 2025 vote

Across Sprotbrough’s wards, Reform UK took 42.1%, Labour took 32.7% and the Conservatives took 15.1% of votes in May 2025. In 2021, Reform UK had 0%. How Sprotbrough has voted ↓

Council tax

A Band D bill in Sprotbrough is £2,182 for 2026–27; Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council keeps 80% of it. The council area’s Band D has risen 51% in ten years, against England’s 56%. Council money ↓

Written from the data on this page: Democracy Club results since May 2021, the UK Parliament Members API and MHCLG council tax.

Who’s in charge

Who holds the seats

Seats by party as elected. A party needs 28 of Doncaster’s 55 seats to run the council alone.

Metropolitan borough council · 55 councillorsDoncaster Metropolitan Borough CouncilReform UK majority
LabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourLabourConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UKReform UK55seats
  • Reform UK38+38
  • Labour11−29
  • Conservative6−5
  • Edlington and Warmsworth First0−1
  • Mexborough First0−3

Change against the council before the 1 May 2025 election.

LabourConservativeReform UK

Seats are counted from election results: each ward’s most recent winners until its seats are filled. Councillors who have since changed party or resigned aren’t reflected, and which parties lead the council, and who is leader, comes from the council itself.

Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), elections since May 2021; seats per ward from its EveryElection.

Who runs Sprotbrough

The councils that run Sprotbrough

One council runs every main service here.

Town or parish councilSprotbrough and Cusworth parish council

Local matters: allotments, play areas, halls, footpaths and benches; it is consulted on planning and adds a precept to the council tax bill. A town council is a parish council by another name.

100% of Sprotbrough’s residents · Band D precept £57

Metropolitan borough councilDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Every main council service: schools, social care, roads, bins, planning, housing and libraries.

Led by an elected mayor: Ros Jones (Labour), elected May 2025

Website ↗
Combined authoritySouth Yorkshire

Transport, skills and regeneration across several council areas.

Who to ask

Bins and recyclingDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Planning applicationsDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Council housing and homelessnessDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Council tax billsDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Parks and leisure centresDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Allotments, play areas, benchesSprotbrough and Cusworth parish council
Potholes, roads and streetlightsDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Schools and school placesDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Adult and children’s social careDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
LibrariesDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Tips and recycling centresDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Bus and transport plansSouth Yorkshire combined authority
Police priorities and budgetSouth Yorkshire Police police and crime commissioner
Fire safety visitsSouth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

From GOV.UK’s “Understand how your council works”: here one council runs every main service.

Councils from ONS lookups (wards and councils May 2026, parishes 2025), names and websites from GOV.UK’s local council finder; parish councils from MHCLG’s 2026–27 list of precepting parishes.

Who represents Sprotbrough

From the parish to Westminster

Every elected tier that speaks for Sprotbrough, from the most recent elections.

  1. 1
    Town or parishParish tier
    Sprotbrough and Cusworth parish council
  2. 2
    Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council2 wards · 5 councillors
    Oliver Christian BloorCynthia Anne RansomeIsaiah-John ReasbeckSamuel George BoothRebecca Emily BoothJames Vernon Church
  3. 3
    Mayor of DoncasterDoncaster Metropolitan Borough Council · elected May 2025
    Ros Jones
  4. 4
    Police and crime commissionerSouth Yorkshire Police · elected May 2021
    Alan Billings
  5. 5
    House of CommonsDoncaster North
LabourConservativeReform UK

Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. Tap an MP’s name for their contact page on parliament.uk.

Councillors

5 councillors for 2 wards

Wards with at least 2% of the town’s residents, or half their own inside it. Each shows who won its most recent elections, newest first, until its seats are filled.

SprotbroughBentley
Each dot is a group of postcodes, shaded by the party that won its ward’s latest election. Tap a ward for its councillors.
Sprotbrough
6,803 residents · 63% in Sprotbrough
  • Oliver Christian BloorReform UK · May 2025
  • Cynthia Anne RansomeConservative · May 2025
Bentley
743 residents · 4% in Sprotbrough
  • Isaiah-John ReasbeckReform UK · August 2025 · by-election
  • Samuel George BoothReform UK · May 2025
  • Rebecca Emily BoothReform UK · May 2025
  • James Vernon ChurchLabour · May 2025
LabourConservativeReform UK
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WardSeatsElectedWhen
Sprotbroughmostly in Sprotbrough · 6,803 residents2 seats · May 20252
Oliver Christian BloorCynthia Anne Ransome
May 2025
Bentley4% in Sprotbrough · 743 residents3 seats · August 2025, May 20253
Isaiah-John Reasbeckby-electionSamuel George BoothRebecca Emily BoothJames Vernon Church
August 2025, May 2025

Councillors can resign, change party or sit as independents between elections; a by-election winner replaces someone not named here. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council’s website lists who sits now.

Results from Democracy Club’s candidates database (CC BY 4.0; elections since May 2021) and ward seats from its EveryElection, matched to ONS wards (May 2026) and county divisions (May 2025).

How Sprotbrough has voted

Labour led each vote to 2021; Reform UK led in 2025

Share of all votes cast for candidates in Sprotbrough’s wards at each scheduled council election since 2021. A gap is a year with no election here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%20212022noelection2023noelection2024noelection2025Green, 2021: 15.6%Green, 2025: 8.1%Labour, 2021: 44.4%Labour, 2025: 32.7%Conservative, 2021: 37.6%Conservative, 2025: 15.1%Reform UK, 2021: 0%Reform UK, 2025: 42.1%Reform UK 42%Labour 33%Conservative 15%Green 8%

Seats won at each election

2021
5 seats · Labour 3 · Conservative 2
2025
5 seats · Reform UK 3 · Labour 1 · Conservative 1
GreenLabourConservativeReform UK
Show as a table
Party20212025
Green15.6%8.1%
Labour44.4%32.7%
Conservative37.6%15.1%
Reform UK0%42.1%

In 2025, Reform UK won 3, Labour won 1 and the Conservatives won 1 of the 5 seats up in Sprotbrough’s wards.

Results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0). Where a ward elects several councillors at once, each voter has that many votes; all of them count here.

Local elections

City of Doncaster council election, May 2025

Results in the wards that make up Sprotbrough, as declared. Percentages are of votes cast for candidates in each ward; where a ward elects several councillors, each voter has that many votes.

Seats won in Sprotbrough’s wards5 seats · 1 May 2025
Reform UK3
Conservative1
Labour1

2 wards voted. Every seat in the town’s wards was up.

Next elections

No election is scheduled yet for Sprotbrough’s wards in Democracy Club’s list. Councils publish a notice of election about five weeks before polling day.

Who can I vote for? ↗
Sprotbrough1 May 2025
Oliver Christian Bloor ElectedReform UK19.1%
Cynthia Anne Ransome ElectedConservative16.1%
Simon WellingsReform UK15.9%
Glenn BluffConservative15.0%
Michael John MacDonaldLabour12.9%
Kevin Terence RodgersLabour11.0%
Fiona CahillGreen5.1%
Olivia Anne AlderGreen4.9%

6,163 votes for candidates · 2 seats, so 2 votes each

Bentley1 May 2025
Samuel George Booth ElectedReform UK17.0%
Rebecca Emily Booth ElectedReform UK16.6%
James Vernon Church ElectedLabour14.2%
Steve WhartonReform UK13.2%
Jane NightingaleLabour12.1%
Matthew Peter JonesLabour12.1%
Sandra BluffConservative4.6%
James Robert BreenGreen3.8%
Frank CooperGreen3.0%
Giulia SaviniLiberal Democrat2.0%
Steven FlintTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition1.4%

9,372 votes for candidates · 3 seats, so 3 votes each

LabourConservativeLiberal DemocratReform UKGreenOther parties

Candidates and results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), from councils’ declared results; polling dates from Democracy Club’s EveryElection.

Parliament

Sprotbrough is in Doncaster North constituency

The constituency’s MP and the 4 July 2024 general election, the whole constituency’s result (it reaches beyond Sprotbrough).

Doncaster North · general election4 July 2024
Ed Miliband ElectedLabour52.4%
Glenn BluffConservative22.9%
Dave BettneySocial Democratic Party6.3%
Tony NicholsonGreen5.7%
Frank CalladineBritish Democratic Party3.7%
Christopher DawsonThe Yorkshire Party3.4%
Jonathan HarstonLiberal Democrat3.4%
Catherine BriggsParty of Women1.5%
Andy HilesTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition0.7%

31,002 votes for candidates · majority 9,126

MP for Doncaster North

Ed Miliband

Labour, MP since 5 May 2005.

44%

turnout in July 2024: 31,002 votes from 69,759 registered voters. England: 60%.

Majority 9,126 of 31,002 votes (29.4%): wider than in 84% of England’s 543 constituencies.

LabourConservativeLiberal DemocratGreenOther parties

MPs and results: UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0); constituencies from ONS (2024 boundaries). Percentages are of valid votes; turnout is votes cast over the electorate.

Council money

Sprotbrough’s Band D council tax is £2,182 a year

Where a Band D bill goes, what it has cost over the years, and what the councils plan to spend per resident.

COUNCIL TAXBand D · 2026–27 · a Band D home in Sprotbrough and Cusworth
Sprotbrough and Cusworth parish councilparish precept£56.58
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Councilcouncil£1,749.86
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authoritycombined authority£280.04
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authorityfire and rescue£95.05
A year£2,181.53
Bills by band run from 6/9 of Band D (Band A) to 18/9 (Band H). Discounts and support reduce many bills.

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council keeps £1,749.86 of a Band D bill (80%); the rest goes to the Sprotbrough and Cusworth parish council, the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority.

Band D since 1993

£0£500£1K£1.5K£2K£2.5K1995200020052010201520202025England, 1993–94: £567.95England, 1994–95: £580.11England, 1995–96: £609.00England, 1996–97: £646.00England, 1997–98: £688.00England, 1998–99: £747.00England, 1999–00: £798.00England, 2000–01: £847.00England, 2001–02: £901.33England, 2002–03: £975.56England, 2003–04: £1,101.75England, 2004–05: £1,166.56England, 2005–06: £1,213.81England, 2006–07: £1,267.91England, 2007–08: £1,321.32England, 2008–09: £1,373.08England, 2009–10: £1,413.84England, 2010–11: £1,439.22England, 2011–12: £1,439.33England, 2012–13: £1,444.13England, 2013–14: £1,455.60England, 2014–15: £1,467.98England, 2015–16: £1,483.58England, 2016–17: £1,529.56England, 2017–18: £1,590.55England, 2018–19: £1,671.46England, 2019–20: £1,749.88England, 2020–21: £1,817.67England, 2021–22: £1,898.48England, 2022–23: £1,965.71England, 2023–24: £2,065.05England, 2024–25: £2,170.99England, 2025–26: £2,280.21England, 2026–27: £2,391.52Doncaster, 1993–94: £587.25Doncaster, 1994–95: £564.75Doncaster, 1995–96: £586.13Doncaster, 1996–97: £604.16Doncaster, 1997–98: £654.88Doncaster, 1998–99: £711.59Doncaster, 1999–00: £760.86Doncaster, 2000–01: £798.09Doncaster, 2001–02: £856.13Doncaster, 2002–03: £917.31Doncaster, 2003–04: £1,039.66Doncaster, 2004–05: £1,093.67Doncaster, 2005–06: £1,101.74Doncaster, 2006–07: £1,135.66Doncaster, 2007–08: £1,178.98Doncaster, 2008–09: £1,227.05Doncaster, 2009–10: £1,277.70Doncaster, 2010–11: £1,315.33Doncaster, 2011–12: £1,316.16Doncaster, 2012–13: £1,324.53Doncaster, 2013–14: £1,331.66Doncaster, 2014–15: £1,357.78Doncaster, 2015–16: £1,384.47Doncaster, 2016–17: £1,436.44Doncaster, 2017–18: £1,490.43Doncaster, 2018–19: £1,555.67Doncaster, 2019–20: £1,647.04Doncaster, 2020–21: £1,707.18Doncaster, 2021–22: £1,765.42Doncaster, 2022–23: £1,842.12Doncaster, 2023–24: £1,925.95Doncaster, 2024–25: £2,024.11Doncaster, 2025–26: £2,110.50Doncaster, 2026–27: £2,167.75Doncaster £2,168England £2,392

Doncaster’s Band D bill has risen 51% in ten years, from £1,436.44 in 2016–17, against England’s average (56%). It was £587.25 in 1993–94.

Your bill by band

Band A 6/9£1,454
Band B 7/9£1,697
Band C 8/9£1,939
Band D 9/9£2,182
Band E 11/9£2,666
Band F 13/9£3,151
Band G 15/9£3,636
Band H 18/9£4,363

A Band D home in Sprotbrough and Cusworth, 2026–27, before discounts. The Valuation Office Agency’s band search gives any home’s band.

South Yorkshire’s councils

Doncaster£2,168
Barnsley£2,326
Rotherham£2,382
Sheffield£2,510

Average Band D in each council area, 2026–27, parish precepts included. Bars start at £2,000.

Council budgets per resident, 2026–27

ServiceDoncastervs England
Adult social care£506+£19
Children’s social care£341+£51
Roads and transport£35−£6
Housing (not council homes’ rents)£33−£28
Bins, street cleaning, environment£123+£4
Libraries, leisure, culture£52+£8
Planning and development£31+£5
Public health£120+£42
Running the council£43−£16
Other£8−£11
Sprotbrough’s councils, per residentEngland, all councils
Show as a table, with South Yorkshire
DoncasterSprotbrough’s councilsSouth YorkshireEngland
Adult social care£506£528£487
Children’s social care£341£333£290
Roads and transport£35£67£41
Housing (not council homes’ rents)£33£45£61
Bins, street cleaning, environment£123£120£119
Libraries, leisure, culture£52£51£44
Planning and development£31£37£26
Public health£120£94£78
Running the council£43£47£59
Other£8£2£19
Total, schools apart£1,293£1,323£1,234

Net budgeted service spending, MHCLG Revenue Account budget 2026–27, per resident (ONS mid-2025 estimates). Schools are left out: academies are paid for directly by government, so council school budgets depend on how many schools have converted. South Yorkshire and England: all their councils together. Police, fire and transport authorities aren’t included.

Band D: MHCLG Band D council tax 2026–27 (each authority’s own figure, excluding parish precepts) and Council Tax statistics for town and parish councils 2026–27; since 1993–94, MHCLG’s area averages including parishes.

Get involved

Having a say in how Sprotbrough is run

Register to vote

It takes about five minutes online; the deadline is 12 working days before a poll.

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Contact your councillors or MP

Type a postcode to write to each of its councillors and its MP.

WriteToThem ↗
Report a pothole or a broken streetlight

GOV.UK sends the report to the council that looks after the road.

gov.uk ↗
Watch or speak at a council meeting

Council and committee meetings are open to the public, with agendas and minutes online.

doncaster.gov.uk ↗
Comment on a planning application

Anyone can comment while an application is open for consultation.

doncaster.gov.uk ↗
Stand for election

The rules, nomination papers and guidance for council candidates.

Electoral Commission ↗

Questions about how Sprotbrough is run

Which council runs Sprotbrough?

Sprotbrough is run by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.

Does Sprotbrough have a town council?

Yes: Sprotbrough has its own parish-tier council (Sprotbrough and Cusworth parish council; town councils are parish councils by another name), which adds £57 to a Band D bill in 2026–27.

Who is the MP for Sprotbrough?

Ed Miliband (Labour) is the MP for Doncaster North, which covers Sprotbrough.

How many councillors does Sprotbrough have?

5 ward councillors represent Sprotbrough’s 2 wards.

When are the next elections in Sprotbrough?

No election is scheduled yet in Democracy Club’s list for Sprotbrough’s wards. The next UK general election must be held by August 2029.

How much is council tax in Sprotbrough?

Band D council tax in Sprotbrough is £2,182 for 2026–27. Your bill depends on your home’s band, from A (6/9 of Band D) to H (18/9).

Who controls Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council?

Reform UK has a majority: 38 of 55 seats as elected. The council’s website lists who leads it now.

Who won the 2025 council election in Sprotbrough?

In Sprotbrough’s wards on 1 May 2025, Reform UK 3 · Labour 1 · Conservative 1 of the 5 seats up. Reform UK had the largest share of votes, 42.1%.

Sources: ONS ward, county division, parish, constituency lookups (Census 2021 output areas; Open Government Licence v3.0) · GOV.UK local council finder · Democracy Club candidates (CC BY 4.0) and EveryElection · UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence v3.0) · MHCLG Band D council tax, parish precepts and Revenue Account budgets 2026–27 (OGL v3.0) · ONS mid-2025 population estimates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.