{"id":945427,"date":"2026-05-08T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:51:14","slug":"west-midlands-local-elections-2026-live-as-reform-dominate-in-dudley-and-labour-lose-control-in-tamworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945427\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands local elections 2026 live as Reform dominate in Dudley and Labour lose control in Tamworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s going to be a busy &#8211; and long &#8211; day across the West Midlands, with results coming in at different times, right up to this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Some councils are already declaring their results, like Dudley, Redditch and Tamworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But in others, counting won&#8217;t start till later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The big one as far as our region is concerned, Birmingham City Council, won&#8217;t be declared until 6pm at the earliest, and it could be later than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Other results in places like Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth will begin to trickle in this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s going to be a busy &#8211; and long &#8211; day across the West Midlands, with results coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1354,393,4884,285,45715,31077,16,15],"class_list":["post-945427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-dudley","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-politics","tag-redditch","tag-tamworth","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537399668228175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945427","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=945427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}