Wakefield Council election results are being announced today after voters across wakefield and the Five Towns went to the polls yesterday. The final result is expected at around 5.30pm, closing a count that for the first time in more than 20 years includes all council seats.
Wakefield and the Five Towns
A total of 285 candidates are standing for election, giving voters a wider field than in a routine partial council contest. The scale of the vote means residents in Wakefield and the Five Towns are waiting on a full set of ward outcomes before the council picture is complete.
The results are expected to be announced throughout the day, so individual wards may be declared before the final council outcome at around 5.30pm. That timetable leaves people following the count with a sequence of announcements rather than a single all-at-once declaration.
More than 20 years
This is a Wakefield Council local election in which all council seats are included for the first time in more than 20 years. That makes the count broader than recent contests and gives every seat on the council a place in the result being announced today.
For voters, the immediate issue is not the election day itself but the result now being assembled from those ward-by-ward declarations. Anyone tracking the outcome will need to watch the day’s announcements through to around 5.30pm, when the final result is expected.
