{"id":574421,"date":"2026-05-09T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:42:15","slug":"reform-uk-misses-out-on-norfolk-county-council-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574421\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK misses out on Norfolk County Council majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform was by far the biggest winner but in a county it was hoping to take control of, did not quite win enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forty seats means they are three short of having a majority which means they should be able to form a minority administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they will need to seek support from councillors in other parties on policies they want to vote through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Potentially, the other parties could form a &#8220;rainbow coalition&#8221; to take control, although that seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The performance of Great Yarmouth First, which won all nine county council seats it contested, is probably what denied Reform an outright majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results were disastrous for the Conservatives who have controlled the county council for most of the last 50 years and also for Labour, which was wiped out in its heartland in Norwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Greens will be delighted to have trebled their number of seats to 12, while the Liberal Democrats will be happy to have added to their numbers, performing particularly well in north Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What happens next is unclear, but it will certainly be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform was by far the biggest winner but in a county it was hoping to take control of,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574421","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\/574421","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=574421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}