{"id":945856,"date":"2026-05-08T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945856\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:24:19","slug":"birmingham-and-the-black-country-local-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945856\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham and the Black Country local election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did Birmingham&#8217;s outgoing council look like?published at 11:13 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:13 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Going into this election, Labour was in a dominant position with an overall majority (more than half of the seats) on the 101-seat council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opinion polls in the run-up to this election have suggested that could change, with strong showings for Reform UK, previously unrepresented on the council, as well as Greens and Independents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With all the seats up for election, all eyes will be on whether any party can again take a majority, or whether there&#8217;ll be a minority or coalition administration in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What did Birmingham&#8217;s outgoing council look like?published at 11:13 BST 11:13 BST Going into this election, Labour was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-945856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116538472385709812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945856","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=945856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}