Polling booths open for council election

Voters are going to the polls today to elect representatives to local councils.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd May 2018, 13:36 BST
Updated 3rd May 2018, 13:41 BST
Polling stations opened this morning.Polling stations opened this morning.
Polling stations opened this morning.

A total of 21 seats on Wakefield Council are being contested in this year’s election, one in each of the authority’s wards.

That represents a third of the authority’s councillors.

One Conservative, 17 Labour, one UKIP and two independent seats are being contested.

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The authority is currently Labour controlled and has been lead by leader Coun Peter Box for 20 years, since 1998.

Deputy leader Denise Jeffery’s seat is up this time, as is the seat of the leader of the Wakefield Conservatives Nadeem Ahmed.

The local count will take place through the night with results expected during the early hours of Friday.

After the polls close this evening, the ballot boxes will be taken to Thornes Park stadium in Wakefield for the the count.

We’ll have a full round up of the elections news as it happens on this site.

Related topics:Denise JefferyWakefield CouncilLabourWakefieldNadeem Ahmed