{"id":943152,"date":"2026-05-07T05:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:45:16","slug":"polling-stations-to-open-across-much-of-the-north-west-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943152\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling stations to open across much of the north-west of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Polling stations will open at 07:00 BST across much of the north-west of England for the local elections.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across the region, a total of 461 seats will be contested across 21 councils in the biggest set of elections since the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living in all of Greater Manchester&#8217;s 10 boroughs will have the chance to vote, while there are also elections in some parts of the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire. There are no elections in Cheshire this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Votes will be counted after the polls close at 22:00 BST, with the results expected to be declared either overnight or later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polling stations will open at 07:00 BST across much of the north-west of England for the local elections.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943152","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=943152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}