{"id":572083,"date":"2026-05-08T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:06:09","slug":"polls-close-in-west-midlands-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572083\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls close in West Midlands local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overnight counts are expected in Dudley, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Redditch, with the results expected to be announced in the early hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most councils, however, will start counting on Friday, with the first of them expected to declare in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The candidate or candidates with the most votes in each ward win and become councillors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The councillors who are elected are responsible for representing their local area, providing community leadership and voting on decisions in meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also worth noting that councillors are not paid a salary. Instead, they receive an allowance to cover costs such as childcare and travel, with many working another job alongside their council role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overnight counts are expected in Dudley, Tamworth, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Redditch, with the results expected to be announced in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572083","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=572083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}