{"id":944840,"date":"2026-05-07T23:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:41:18","slug":"bolton-local-election-results-2026-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944840\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton local election results 2026 in full"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters in Bolton in Greater Manchester have had their say in the 2026 local elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seats on Bolton<\/a> Metropolitan Borough Council were up for election in the wards of Astley Bridge, Bradshaw, Breightmet, Bromley Cross, Farnworth North, Farnworth South, Great Lever, Halliwell, Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor, Horwich North, Horwich South & Blackrod, Hulton, Kearsley, Little Lever & Darcy Lever, Queens Park & Central, Rumworth, Smithills, Tonge with the Haulgh, Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill, and Westhoughton South.<\/p>\n

A total of 20 out of 60 seats were up for grabs on Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, with one councillor elected in each ward.<\/p>\n

Elections in Bolton take place three out of every four years with a third of all councillors elected each time.<\/p>\n

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

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Ahead of the election, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council was under no overall control. Labour led the council with a minority administration with 25 seats.<\/p>\n

Polls closed at 10pm on Thursday, May 7, with the count taking place overnight. Results for the Bolton local elections are due from 3am 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 Bolton. You can select your ward from the drop-down list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Bolton in Greater Manchester have had their say in the 2026 local elections. Seats on Bolton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,393,4884,10751,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-elections","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116535944196735780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944840","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=944840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}