Looks like Andrew Kilburn is the fourth person elected with Reform next to their name on the ballot papers now no longer a Reform councillor.

Pippa Graeme (Weybridge & St. George’s ward, Elmbridge ) is leaving the Weybridge & St. George’s Independents and join the ...

If you are reading this post, the chances are you can correctly recite the order in which the five main parties finished in the 2025 local elections, whether by seat number, council control or vote ...

Here’s the tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held between the May 2025 and the May 2026 local elections: Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, ...

After the news about Donna Edmunds and Luke Shingler being elected as Reform UK councillors but no longer representing the party, we have a third story. This time it is Desmond Clarke, elected for ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts saw me team up with John Potter and the Lib Dem Pod team to discuss the local elections. How did they go for the Liberal Democrats and what lessons are ...

Before polling day, I covered the extreme and unpleasant views of Donna Edmunds, then a council candidate for Reform UK. She was elected on Thursday for Hodnet ward, Shropshire, but is now already an ...

Sadly, Mike Ross did not quite make it in the election for Mayor of Hull and East Riding. But full credit to him for his response to the election results: I have had some time to sleep on the results ...