UK Elections 2024: Britons Vote In Local Polls That May Test PM Rishi Sunak’s Leadership
The election results are expected to start coming in early Friday, with the count in some areas continuing till Sunday.
London: The UK is holding local elections on Thursday that could test Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s leadership in the United Kingdom. In this local elections, several politicians are vying for more than 2,500 council seats, 25 places in the London Assembly and 10 regional mayoralties, with voters able to cast their ballots between 7 AM and 10 PM> As per a report by Bloomberg, the voting results are expected to start coming in early Friday, with the count in some areas continuing through to Sunday.
It should be noted that the Tory party members have trailed Keir Starmer’s opposition Labour Party badly in national polling for months, and Conservative Peer Robert Hayward — a local elections expert — predicts they could lose more than 400 of the 900 council seats they’re defending.
In this local elections, over a third of councils are expected to declare results in the early hours of Friday, according to a tally by the Press Association.
The election results expected during the night is the count in the Parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South, triggered by the departure of Scott Benton. The former Tory MP quit the seat after being censured by Parliament’s standards committee for breaking rules governing lawmakers’ conduct.
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