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well i thought reform would do well but didn't expect them to wipe out the tory party like that.

Lincolnshire has a reform mayor and are not far off an overall majority on the county council in Staffordshire it looks like labour may have NO county councillors at all.

This is based on early results but it certainly looks like the smear tactics used in lincolnshire have backfired

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This is a landslide

at the start of the day reform had no county councillors now in the counties declared so far they have more than the tories and labour put together having won 5 outright and are the largest party in many of the noc counties.

if they make a good job of running the councils and demonstrate they can offer traditional british values who knows they might win the next general election

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They didn't ignore the Labour Party either.

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IDFIMH

An unbelievable result for Reform.

Beyond the expectations of even the most ardent Reform supporter.

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I was having a chat with the current chair of Leicestershire County Council on election night. We have been friends since we were kids. He is one of the 40 Tories on Leicestershire County Council before the election. He asked me how I thought it would go and I said that I thought that 3 of the 4 Tories in our Borough would get re elected and the 4th one could go any way at all. Well he got back in with a much reduced majority as did the one who represents the other rural patch but the 2 town ones both went to reform. One of was elected after an unbelievable swing. The tory polled over 1800 last time and got just under 1000 this time whilst reform went from 75 last time to 1100 this time. the Tory demanded a recount even when she lost by just over 100 votes. The other town division was won by about 300 votes from the independant candidate. The Tory came 3rd.
Overall the Tories finished on 15 seats to Reforms 25. Not quite enough for overall control.

In our local constituency the Independant (cleaver) won by just under 800 votes based on 2498 votes cast so he polled about 50%. the tories were second and reform 3rd

I'm not keen on his politics but he absolutely speaks to the home owning commuter crowd which is the main make up of the constituency

in the other it was a closer affair but the Tory pipped lin dem Bisnauthing who I absolutel dislike so i'm glad he didn't get in

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Part of me feels sorry for many of those red and blue councillors that have been replaced by Reform candidates, as I suspect many of them are very good councillors.

The blame falls fairly and squarely on the red and blue national leadership, and I can’t see a way they are going to put things right. There is no money and taxing the rich isn’t going to solve many, if any, problems and the immigration issues aren’t going to go away without drastic actions from government, and our current one will never be up to it.

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the problem is for years that politicians Red or Blue have governed this country in the best interests of their donors and lobby groups not the people of Britain.

the public have finally found a way to make their feelings known and try and change things.

the system has to change and the best interests of the country come first. many people find it unacceptable to put traditional jobs and workers on the scrap heap because because they don't represent the interests of those that fund your party or the WEF,CIA or Chinese fake promises.

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Not sure how this will play out in next year's Scotchland election. SNP had a mare in the 2024 GE - they've had a long run and voter patience runs out eventually.

But Reform (particularly Farage) isn't that popular here. And there isn't any significant Conservative vote for them to take, unlike Englandshire.

I suppose a lot might depend on how well/badly Labour and the new Reform people in EngERland shape up over the coming months.

Labour didnt do very well, plus they didnt even contend some seats (well, if you dont stand, you cant lose)

The Runcorn By-election was won BY just 6 votes but as labour had a 15,000 majority at the GE `im calling it a 15,006 victory




I think you will get it mate

Funny how the GE was acceptable as a result but Brexit and this vote showed how (to some) thick voters are...

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Unusual result in the Hamilton by-election -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgqzdl8lxyo

Reform did well but an SNP hold was expected, not a Labour gain.

politics north of hadrians wall are very different so this was probably a protest vote for the realistic candidate that could oust the SNP

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You're probably right.

Not a good result for SNP at all - they shouldn't be complacent about the 2026 election. Although I suspect they will because that's what they did before the 2024 GE.

May 7th 2026

UK local elections (Inc Khanistan GLC)

The 2026 United Kingdom local elections will take place on Thursday 7 May 2026. These include elections for all London borough councils. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2022. On the same day, there will also be elections to the Scottish Parliament (129 seats) and Senedd (Welsh Parliament) (96 seats).

Some of these elections were postponed from the previous year while reorganisation takes place.[2] The government announced that elections to nine councils would not take place in 2025 to allow restructuring to take place, with elections to reformed or newly created replacement authorities taking place in 2026.

The 2025 local elections were described as a sweeping victory for Reform UK. The party placed first, winning the most seats and took control of a number of local authorities.
The governing Labour Party and opposition Conservative Party suffered historic losses.
This was the first time that Labour finished fourth in a local election; it was the first elections under the premiership of Keir Starmer.
There were major gains for the Liberal Democrats who won new councils.

Its gonna rock the country and Starmers bum will twitch like a wabbits nose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Unit ... _elections

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