If you are reading this post, the chances are you can correctly recite the order in which the five main parties finished in ...

Here's the latest tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held since the last May round of ...

The May 2025 local elections were less than a week ago but Reform UK has now lost its second councillor since then after Luke Shingler switched to independents. The first councillor to go was Donna ...

Desmond Clarke, elected for Newark West ward in Nottinghamshire for Reform UK, is now resigning from the council, forcing a by-election.

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw me team up with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod team to discuss the local elections. How did they go for the Liberal Democrats and what lessons are ...

Elections for Mayors, especially outside London, are greatly underpolled in the UK. Thankfully, both last year and this year there has been an emerging pattern of pollsters producing Mayor polls even ...

Before polling day, I covered the extreme and unpleasant views of Donna Edmunds, then a council candidate for Reform UK. She was elected on Thursday for Hodnet ward, Shropshire, but is now already an ...

Sadly, Mike Ross did not quite make it in the election for Mayor of Hull and East Riding. But full credit to him for his response to the election results: I have had some time to sleep on the results ...

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Lots of results to come in the May 2025 local elections, but regardless of how they do one thing will be true: that a huge number of people deserve sincere thanks for the work they have put into the ...