Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

About this data:
- Attendance records are scraped monthly from council websites.
- Current data covers 27 January 2025 to 27 January 2026.
- Not all councils could be scraped.

Council Attendance Ranking

200 of 274 Councils

Councillors

Overall

80%

Average

79%

Median

83%

Perfect (100%)

Below 75%

Attendance trend by party

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Independent

Conservative

Shows how party attendance has changed over time, from 3-year average to the most recent year.

Attendance by party

Labour(46)

81%

Liberal Democrats(12)

75%

Independent(3)

79%

Conservative(1)

92%

Attendance distribution

90-100%

80-89%

70-79%

60-69%

Below 60%

Highest attendance

1
Councillor Alex Burnett
Labour
100%
2
Councillor Jo Newing
Labour
100%
3
Councillor Tim Shepherd
Labour
100%

Lowest attendance

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Showing 62 of 62 councillors

#	Name	Party	Meetings	Attendance	Status
1	Councillor Alex Burnett	Labour	17/17	100%	Good
2	Councillor Jo Newing	Labour	35/35	100%	Good
3	Councillor Tim Shepherd	Labour	26/26	100%	Good
4	Councillor James Higginbottom	Labour	34/35	97%	Good
5	Councillor Ken Richardson Msc	Labour	26/27	96%	Good
6	Councillor Steve Green	Labour	35/37	95%	Good
7	Councillor Joe Hayward	Labour	36/38	95%	Good
8	Councillor Robin Franklin	Labour	33/35	94%	Good
9	Councillor Martin Morrell	Labour	34/36	94%	Good
10	Councillor Philip Wright	Liberal Democrats	25/27	93%	Good
11	Councillor Robert Barnard	Conservative	33/36	92%	Good
12	Councillor Chris Wray	Liberal Democrats	22/24	92%	Good
13	Councillor Robert Frost	Labour	32/35	91%	Good
14	Councillor Sharon Howard	Labour	32/35	91%	Good
15	Councillor Phillip Lofts	Labour	28/31	90%	Good
16	Councillor Paul Murray	Labour	26/29	90%	Good
17	Councillor Deborah Pearson	Labour	38/42	90%	Good
18	Councillor Mick Stowe	Labour	27/30	90%	Good
19	Councillor Neil Wright	Labour	26/29	90%	Good
20	Councillor Stephen Bullcock	Liberal Democrats	21/24	88%	Fair
21	Councillor Wendy Cain	Labour	36/41	88%	Fair
22	Councillor Caroline Makinson	Labour	30/34	88%	Fair
23	Councillor Janine Moyes	Labour	49/56	88%	Fair
24	Councillor Kevin Osborne	Labour	38/43	88%	Fair
25	Councillor Pauline McCarthy	Labour	27/31	87%	Fair
26	Councillor Jake Lodge	Independent	25/29	86%	Fair
27	Councillor John Roberts	Labour	24/28	86%	Fair
28	Councillor Margaret Sheard	Labour	37/43	86%	Fair
29	Councillor Andrew Wray	Independent	24/28	86%	Fair
30	Councillor Dickie Denton	Liberal Democrats	29/34	85%	Fair
31	Councillor Steve Hunt	Liberal Democrats	24/29	83%	Fair
32	Councillor Sarah Tattersall	Labour	34/41	83%	Fair
33	Councillor Hannah Kitching	Liberal Democrats	14/17	82%	Fair
34	Councillor Roy Bowser	Labour	39/48	81%	Fair
35	Councillor Nicola Sumner	Labour	22/27	81%	Fair
36	Councillor Ruth Booker	Labour	24/30	80%	Fair
37	Councillor Brenda Eastwood	Labour	31/39	79%	Fair
38	Councillor Sir Stephen Houghton CBE	Labour	30/38	79%	Fair
39	Councillor Trevor Cave	Labour	25/32	78%	Fair
40	Councillor Anita Cherryholme	Labour	35/45	78%	Fair
41	Councillor Ashley Peace	Labour	36/46	78%	Fair
42	Councillor Dorothy Coates	Labour	30/39	77%	Fair
43	Councillor Sue Bellamy	Labour	29/38	76%	Fair
44	Councillor Dave Leech	Labour	19/25	76%	Fair
45	Councillor Martin O'Donoghue	Labour	26/34	76%	Fair
46	Councillor Sherry Holling	Labour	24/33	73%	Low
47	Councillor Pauline Markham	Labour	22/30	73%	Low
48	Councillor Janine Bowler	Labour	22/31	71%	Low
49	Councillor Will Fielding	Liberal Democrats	19/28	68%	Low
50	Councillor Leyla Nayeri	Liberal Democrats	15/22	68%	Low
51	Councillor Karen Dyson	Labour	16/24	67%	Low
52	Councillor Mandy Lowe-Flello	Liberal Democrats	10/15	67%	Low
53	Councillor Trevor Smith	Independent	19/29	66%	Low
54	Councillor John Clarke JP	Labour	15/23	65%	Low
55	Councillor Andy Waters	Liberal Democrats	17/26	65%	Low
56	Councillor David Greenhough	Liberal Democrats	19/32	59%	Low
57	Councillor Dave Webster	Labour	14/24	58%	Low
58	Councillor Clive Pickering	Liberal Democrats	15/27	56%	Low
59	Councillor Alice Cave	Labour	11/20	55%	Low
60	Councillor Ian Shirt	Labour	7/16	44%	Poor
61	Councillor Kath Mitchell	Labour	11/35	31%	Poor
62	Councillor Abi Moore	Labour	3/33	9%	Poor