{"id":945569,"date":"2026-05-08T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945569\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:24:31","slug":"live-blog-from-the-lambeth-election-count-at-kennington-oval-8-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945569\/","title":{"rendered":"Live blog from the Lambeth election count at Kennington Oval \u2013 8 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>22.00pm Thursday 7 May<\/p>\n<p>The polls have closed.<\/p>\n<p>Verification expected to start at 9.30am on Friday 8 May, and counting will begin after this.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, counting started mid to late morning and the first declaration was around 2.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The last declaration was shortly after 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will update regularly as results come in.<\/p>\n<p>The council will be running a live stream of the declarations.<\/p>\n<p>Join the local discussion<\/p>\n<p>Please donate to Brixton BuzzTo ensure editorial independence, Brixton Buzz accepts no advertising, sponsorship or funding. If you\u2019d like to contribute to our running costs, <a style=\"color: #F00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/2021\/05\/please-donate-to-brixton-buzz-so-we-can-keep-bringing-you-the-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can donate here<\/a>. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"22.00pm Thursday 7 May The polls have closed. Verification expected to start at 9.30am on Friday 8 May,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-945569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537764641720330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945569","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=945569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}