{"id":31898,"date":"2026-05-08T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/31898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:12:21","slug":"birmingham-local-election-results-2026-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/31898\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham local election results 2026 in full"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters in Birmingham in the West Midlands have had their say in the 2026 local elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All 101 of the seats were up for grabs on Birmingham City Council, with one or two councillors elected in each ward. There are 37 single-member and 32 two-member wards.<\/p>\n

One seat was up for election in the wards of Allens Cross, Balsall Heath West, Birchfield, Bordesley & Highgate, Bordesley Green, Castle Vale, Druids Heath & Monyhull, Frankley Great Park, Garretts Green, Gravelly Hill, Handsworth, Heartlands, Hall Green South, Highter’s Heath, Holyhead, King’s Norton North, King’s Norton South, Lozells, Nechells, Newtown, Northfield, Perry Common, Pype Hayes, Rubery & Rednal, Sutton Four Oaks, Shard End, Sutton Mere Green, South Yardley, Sutton Reddicap, Sutton Roughley, Stirchley, Sutton Trinity, Sutton Wylde Green, Tyseley & Hay Mills, Ward End and Yardley East.<\/p>\n

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Two seats were up for grabs in the wards of Acocks Green, Alum Rock, Aston, Bartley Green, Bromford & Hodge Hill, Billesley, Brandwood & King’s Heath, Bournville & Cotteridge, Bournbrook & Selly Park, Edgbaston, Erdington, Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, Harborne, Handsworth Wood, Hall Green North, Kingstanding, Ladywood, Longbridge & West Heath, Moseley, North Edgbaston, Oscott, Perry Barr, Quinton, Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Sheldon, Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Small Heath, Sparkhill, Stockland Green, Sutton Vesey, Sutton Walmley & Minworth and Weoley & Selly Oak.<\/p>\n

Elections in Birmingham take place every four years, with all of the councillors elected each time.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council is a metropolitan borough council responsible for services like rubbish collection, recycling, Council Tax collections, housing and planning applications.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the election, the council was run by the Labour<\/a> Party with 49 seats.<\/p>\n

Polls closed at 10pm on Thursday, May 7, with the count taking place on Friday. Results for Birmingham local elections are due from 6pm on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n

In total, more than 5,000 council seats were up for grabs across 136 local authorities in England on election day. Mayoral elections also took place in six areas.<\/p>\n

Below you can see the full results for every seat up for election in AREA NAME. You can select your ward from the drop-down list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Birmingham in the West Midlands have had their say in the 2026 local elections. All 101…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[991,4347,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-31898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-local-elections","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116541020173007622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}