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49 resultsfor “Reform party gains in local elections”

Politics

Frustration, apathy and hope: Birmingham divided as extraordinary election looms

local election is anyone's guess. Polls suggest Birmingham's electorate has fully embraced five-party politics, with a healthy number of independent candidates giving city voters a sixth option. Reform UK is feeling confident

BBC NewsApr 19
Politics

Could Lib Dems become the biggest party in English local government?

local elections in a row. ![Ed Davey looking pensive in shirt and tie](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/39b432e029a1e0339fddb116520debb5bf922de2/0_0_4000_2787/master/4000.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) The Lib Dems are running a programme of digital adverts, contrasting Ed Davey’s willingness to criticise Trump with

The Guardian WorldApr 30
Politics

Green party threat to Labour in London laid bare in Starmer’s own back yard

local elections. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images Although the Tories also anticipate tough results, they could retake control of Wandsworth council and make gains in Westminster, allowing Kemi Badenoch to channel Kenneth Baker, Margaret Thatcher

The Guardian WorldMay 6
Politics

Local election campaigning enters final week as forecaster warns Labour could lose 1,850 English seats –UK politics live

local elections Photograph: ITV’s Peston And this is how Hayward explains it in his summary. > double quotation mark**England** all figures given are net losses and gains > > **Labour** will **lose 1850** seats > > The losses

The Guardian WorldApr 30
Politics

Lib Dems can counter extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says

local elections as proof his party is best positioned to confront what he described as the “extreme populist change” offered by Reform UK and the Greens. As Labour assessed a disastrous set of results

The Guardian World4h ago
Politics

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

Reform candidates in Harrow hoping to be elected to the council in the local elections on 7 May. The 2021 census found British Asians made up almost half the population in the north-west London

The Guardian WorldApr 23
Politics

UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

gained 35 seats, giving them a total of 241. ## How significant are these results? Early results underscore the continued fracturing of the UK’s traditional two-party system into a multi-party democracy, in what

Al Jazeera English11h ago
Politics

Early England election results make it clear: we are in an era of five-party politics

party politics English local election results require careful interpretation. Not all places have them at the same time, a relatively small proportion complete their counts overnight and the early headlines may not reflect outcomes later

The Guardian World10h ago
Politics

Voters contend with ‘grotesque’ leaflets and ‘dodgy’ data in English elections

gains in Ealing”, and was “a common method of trying to make that point during an election campaign”, it said. A leaflet from the [Green party in Gateshead](https://electionleaflets.org/leaflets/22369/) shows Reform

The Guardian WorldApr 26
Politics

Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow

Reform are the principal opposition to the Labour Party across Great Britain. He has argued the elections amount to a referendum on the prime minister's leadership. The Green Party of England and Wales, energised

BBC NewsMay 6
Politics

Chris Mason: What the early results tell us so far

local MP is the cabinet minister Lisa Nandy, Labour lost all 22 seats it was defending to Reform. Reform have won loads of new councillors, but, so far at least, not new councils. This

BBC News14h ago
Politics

Six things to watch out for in the Scottish election

elections suggest that Reform has potential in areas which have not been traditionally Conservative, in communities where the "scunner factor" is strongest. The party has already made a big impression on the campaign, with multiple

BBC News22h ago
Politics

Why Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented modern British politics

Reform in the traditionally more socially conservative outer ring. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats expect to gain some councils too. The veteran academic of London's politics, Tony Travers, a politics professor at the London

BBC NewsMay 1
Politics

Apps, activists and an ‘air war’: Essex campaign is test of Reform UK’s professionalisation

gain media coverage and attention using adverts – involving mailshots and leafleting as well as targeted Facebook ads, with nearly £100,000 spent on the latter in the last 30 days, according to Meta

The Guardian WorldMay 6
Politics

Restore Britain party refunds crypto project's donations

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, a keen advocate of the crypto industry, has said in the past that his party would welcome them. But last month, [the UK government said it](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8d2qvr9do) would

BBC NewsMay 1
Politics

Five election moments you may have missed

parties are poles apart, but that was all put aside in the emergency and the candidate headed home to rest. There was a flurry of excitement as Independent candidate Captain Beany arrived at Afan Ogwr

BBC News3h ago
Politics

UK voters head to the polls in local elections

gains, dealing a heavy blow to the governing Labour Party. The elections will determine the composition of some 5,000 local council seats, a number of mayoral positions across England, as well as seats

Al Jazeera EnglishYesterday
Politics

2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votes

Gain | 0 | | Loss | 0 | | Change | 0 | | Hold | 0 | ## Full council results \*Councils with ward boundary changes and/or seat number changes 0/136 councils declared ## Elected mayors There were six mayoral elections Awaiting result ### Croydon The list

The Guardian World22h ago
Politics

Dig Deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm

local election leaflets, with [Byline Times](https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/23/nigel-farage-promotes-reform-uk-donors-pothole-repair-machine-on-election-leaflets/) identifying two flyers in Barnet and Kirklees, where the machine is named as the answer to public frustration with degraded road surfaces. Given the publicity being

The Guardian WorldMay 2
Politics

Man who heckled Shabana Mahmood dismisses ‘laughable’ white liberal claim

local elections, in a twin bid to tackle the climate crisis and fight the far right. Joe pointed to recent statistics suggesting 90,000 vulnerable young people could be kept in poverty by Mahmood

The Guardian WorldApr 28
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