Labour Party Local Elections 2025. Tories demand Rishi Sunak ‘deliver’ on pledges after ‘wakeup call 21 county councils could delay their local elections due to happen in May, as a result of Labour's changes to local government. Despite Labour's relatively poor performance at the local elections in 2021, when the majority of seats up for election were last contested, the party is forecast to secure only 20% of the vote, down from 29% four years ago.
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Labour has already fired the starting gun on the 2025 local elections, with a fresh fundraising drive to boost "seriously depleted" reserves calling on supporters to help "put as much red" on the map as possible. In the run-up to every set of May elections when there isn't a simultaneous general election, I write a preview of the local elections, including historical data so we can benchmark Labour's performance
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So broad claims on social media that "2025 local elections [have been] cancelled" are potentially misleading, Despite Labour's relatively poor performance at the local elections in 2021, when the majority of seats up for election were last contested, the party is forecast to secure only 20% of the vote, down from 29% four years ago. Labour has already fired the starting gun on the 2025 local elections, with a fresh fundraising drive to boost "seriously depleted" reserves calling on supporters to help "put as much red" on the map as possible.
Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks to supporters alongside. In the run-up to every set of May elections when there isn't a simultaneous general election, I write a preview of the local elections, including historical data so we can benchmark Labour's performance I've been doing this since 2011, so this is the first year that I have written this preview while Labour has been in government nationally.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local elections. So broad claims on social media that "2025 local elections [have been] cancelled" are potentially misleading, Despite Labour's relatively poor performance at the local elections in 2021, when the majority of seats up for election were last contested, the party is forecast to secure only 20% of the vote, down from 29% four years ago.