{"id":651265,"date":"2026-05-06T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:42:08","slug":"a-guide-to-the-2026-local-elections-in-surrey-sussex-and-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/651265\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to the 2026 local elections in Surrey, Sussex and Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions of people will vote in the local elections on Thursday, including in Sussex, Surrey and Tunbridge Wells, Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey is voting for councillors on two unitary authorities which will replace the county, district and borough councils from April 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Sussex, all 120 seats across the two county councils are being contested. There are also partial elections for district and borough councils in Adur, Worthing, Hastings and Crawley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent, meanwhile, is largely taking a back seat this time after last year&#8217;s county council elections. Only Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has any elections this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of people will vote in the local elections on Thursday, including in Sussex, Surrey and Tunbridge Wells,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-651265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}