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The 2021 United Kingdom elections were several elections that took place in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2021 at the subnational and local levels. They have been colloquially referred to as Super Thursday. The elections that took place on this day are: 2021 Scottish Parliament election; 2021 Senedd election; 2021 Hartlepool by-election (for UK ...
The 2021 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2021. More than 145 English local councils , around 5,000 councillor seats (including by-elections), [ 2 ] thirteen directly elected mayors in England , [ 3 ] and 39 police and crime commissioners in England and Wales were contested. [ 4 ]
The mayoral and Assembly elections were to be held on the 7th of May 2020, but in March 2020 the government announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadiq Khan was re-selected as the Labour candidate in 2018, the Conservative Party selected Shaun Bailey and the Green Party chose Siân Berry .
The result means the Lib Dems have regained a seat they first won at the 1997 general election and then held for 18 years – one of a number of constituencies in south-west England that once made ...
Elections to Hertfordshire County Council took place on 6 May 2021 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom.All 78 seats to the council were elected. [2]The Conservative Party won 46 of the 78 seats, winning a majority and thus retaining control of the council, [3] [4] despite making a net loss of five seats, with leader David Williams losing his seat of Harpenden North East.
Bold denotes that either the majority of votes went in favour of Brexit or the percentage of votes was enough to retain the election deposit (5%). *denotes that the candidate was originally selected as a Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate in a Conservative seat but after those candidates were pulled, they eventually stood as independent candidates.
The elections were originally due to take place in May 2020 but were postponed by 12 months in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Turnout was an average of 34.1% across the elections, with Wales having much higher turnout mainly due to the simultaneous Senedd election held across Wales, whereas only parts of England had simultaneous local ...
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