{"id":998,"date":"2026-05-08T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=998"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:08:10","slug":"uk-local-elections-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/08\/uk-local-elections-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd52 Current Update Time (9.00 pm ) (Sri Lanka)<\/p>\n<p>The latest results from the UK local council elections continue to show major political shifts across England, Scotland, and Wales. Reform UK has emerged as the biggest surprise performer, while both Labour and Conservative parties are suffering significant losses.<\/p>\n<h3>England Council Results (84 of 136 councils declared)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83d\udd39 Reform UK \u2013 787 seats (+785)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udd38 Liberal Democrats \u2013 513 seats (+57)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udd35 Conservatives \u2013 458 seats (-361)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udd34 Labour \u2013 451 seats (-589)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udfe2 Green Party \u2013 207 seats (+139)<\/li>\n<li>\u26aa Independents \u2013 91 seats (-14)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Developments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Labour has officially admitted defeat in Wales.<\/li>\n<li>The SNP has claimed victory in Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>Reform UK is rapidly gaining ground in England, marking one of the biggest political surges in recent UK local election history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Political analysts say the results reflect growing public dissatisfaction with the traditional major parties and could reshape the political landscape ahead of the next UK General Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd52 Current Update Time (9.00 pm ) (Sri Lanka) The latest results from the UK local council elections continue to show major political shifts across England, Scotland, and Wales. Reform UK has emerged as the biggest surprise performer, while both Labour and Conservative parties are suffering significant losses. England Council Results (84 of 136 councils &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}