These will be the second set of elections during the premiership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
In Scotland, where the Scottish National Party is currently in power, the election will decide who governs the country in key areas such as health and education.<\/p>\n
All 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) are up for re-election.<\/p>\n
In Wales, where Labour has continuously been in power since devolution in 1999, 92 seats are up for grabs in an expanded Senedd.<\/p>\n
The party that wins the most seats in the Senedd would expect to lead the Welsh government and, like in Scotland, set policy on devolved issues.<\/p>\n
There are about 5,000 councillors across 136 local authorities, as well as six mayors, up for election in parts of England.<\/p>\n
Labour either controls or leads the majority of the council areas where voters are going to the polls in England on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The results will determine who runs vital public services such as schools, social care, rubbish collection and transport.<\/p>\n
All adults aged 18 and over can vote in the elections if they are either a British or Irish citizen, or a qualifying foreign national.<\/p>\n
Everyone voting in person in the local elections in England will need a valid photo ID, such as a passport or driving licence, but there is no such requirement in Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n
The vast majority of the results in England, Scotland and Wales are expected on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These will be the second set of elections during the premiership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In Scotland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-570240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570240","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=570240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}