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Britain's 7 May 2026 local elections across 136 English councils are expected to deliver Labour's worst local results in half a century, with projections of 1,500 to 1,900 seat losses from a 2022 baseline inflated by anti-Johnson sentiment. Reform UK, fielding candidates in over 99% of wards, is projected to become the largest party in English local government in a single electoral cycle, while Labour's vote share has halved from 35% to 19% since those seats were last contested — driven by defections among working-class voters to Reform, Muslim voters to independents and the Greens, and a broader collapse in governing-party confidence linked to the winter fuel payment cut, the delayed reversal of the two-child benefit cap, and the government's stance on Gaza.