Housing Secretary Steve Reed confirmed to the House today:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn December, the minister for local government and homelessness wrote to 63 councils due to hold elections in May 2026 to hear their views. I have carefully assessed over 350 representations from those councils with elections scheduled in May and from others who are interested in the outcome. I have carefully considered arguments made about capacity, reorganisation and democracy, and I\u2019m grateful to everyone who took the time to express their views. I can now confirm my decisions to the House \u2013 I have decided to bring forward legislation to postpone 29 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
Essex has requested a delay at the last minute, which is expected to be approved by ministers, taking it to 30 councils. That\u2019s 5.6 million votes cancelled. Let the people vote\u2026<\/p>\n
UPDATE: MHCLG is ringing round outlets asking for this to be referred to as \u201cdelayed\u201d rather than \u201ccancelled\u201d elections. Desperate\u2026<\/p>\n
Read the full list of cancelled council elections below:<\/p>\n
Adur \u2013 Labour
Basildon \u2013 NOC
Blackburn with Darwen \u2013 Labour
Burnley \u2013 NOC
Cannock Chase \u2013 Labour
Cheltenham \u2013 Liberal Democrat
Chorley \u2013 Labour
City of Lincoln \u2013 Labour
Crawley \u2013 Labour
East Sussex (County) \u2013 Conservative
Exeter \u2013 Labour
Harlow \u2013 Conservative
Hastings \u2013 NOC
Hyndburn \u2013 Labour
Ipswich \u2013 Labour
Norfolk (County) \u2013 Conservative
Norwich \u2013 Labour
Peterborough \u2013 NOC
Preston \u2013 Labour
Redditch \u2013 Labour
Rugby \u2013 Conservative
Stevenage \u2013 Labour
Suffolk (County) \u2013 Conservative
Tamworth \u2013 Conservative
Thurrock \u2013 Labour
Welwyn Hatfield \u2013 Conservative
West Lancashire \u2013 Labour
West Sussex (County) \u2013 Conservative
Worthing \u2013 Labour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing Secretary Steve Reed confirmed to the House today: \u201cIn December, the minister for local government and homelessness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[461,59,57,58,1634,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-elections","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}