{"id":888894,"date":"2026-04-12T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:14:18","slug":"horsforth-town-council-candidates-announced-for-hall-park-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/888894\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsforth Town Council: Candidates announced for Hall Park by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three candidates to contest the Horsforth Town Council by-election in Hall Park ward have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Khadijah Akhtar (Green), Della Heptinstall (Conservatives) and Ian McCargo (Labour) will all contest the seat on 7 May. One candidate will be elected.<\/p>\n<p>As WLD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/vacancy-opens-on-horsforth-town-councils-hall-park-ward-as-councillors-resigns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last month<\/a>, the Hall Park seat became vacant following the resignation of Councillor Becky Heaviside.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election takes place the same day as the Leeds City Council elections, where all 33 wards across Leeds will be contested.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-12-at-11.36.46-900x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201098\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three candidates to contest the Horsforth Town Council by-election in Hall Park ward have been announced. Khadijah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,233625,209390,212615,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-888894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hall-park-ward","tag-horsforth","tag-horsforth-town-council","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116391449119261647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}