Combined authority · E47000002 · ONS CAUTH

South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

Mayor of South Yorkshire

Strategic / metro mayor layer only. Constituent councils below are Watchtower CTYUA pages — their debt and crime figures are not this authority’s. Ceremonial civic mayors are out of scope.

Labour

Mayor

Oliver Coppard

Mayor of South Yorkshire

Party

Labour

As published

Last election

2 May 2024

Next election

2028

Powers tier

Established Mayoral Strategic Authority

GOV.UK devolution factsheets (July 2025): elected mayor plus the Established Mayoral tier (including integrated settlement where named).

Police and Crime Commissioner functions for South Yorkshire sit with this mayor (GOV.UK factsheets).

ONS CAUTH name is South Yorkshire. Commons Library SN05000 appendix still uses the older ‘Sheffield City Region’ label.

Elections

Last: 2 May 2024 (ordinary)
Next: 2028 (ordinary); Calendar: next 2028 · last 2 May 2024

Constituent councils in Watchtower

Upper-tier, unitary and London borough pages that already exist in this snapshot. Combined authorities do not replace those councils.

Barnsley · Metropolitan borough
Doncaster · Metropolitan borough
Rotherham · Metropolitan borough
Sheffield · Metropolitan borough

Sources

House of Commons Library — Directly-elected mayors (SN05000) · as of 11 May 2026
MHCLG — English devolution: Area factsheets · as of 10 Jul 2025
ONS Open Geography — Combined Authorities (May 2025) Names and Codes in EN · as of 1 May 2025

Source: Curated Watchtower mayors snapshot. As of 14 Sept 2026.

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