{"id":122191,"date":"2019-04-12T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=122191"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:34:18","slug":"your-guide-to-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/your-guide-to-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Guide to Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This year, local elections will take place on 2 May and thousands of councillors will be elected across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No every council is having an election \u2013 in England its split as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>33 metropolitan district councils electing by thirds<\/li>\n<li>116 district councils holding whole council elections<\/li>\n<li>53 district councils electing by thirds<\/li>\n<li>30 unitary authorities holding whole council elections<\/li>\n<li>17 unitary authorities electing by thirds<\/li>\n<li>Elections are also being held in many areas for parish, town, community, neighbourhood and village councils<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, local elections are being held for all 11 local authorities in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Local councils are vital to public relations and public affairs and any organisation working with an audience at a local or regional level.<\/p>\n<p>Vuelio has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/resources\/white-papers\/your-guide-to-local-elections\/\"><strong>Your Guide to Local Elections<\/strong><\/a>, which\u00a0breaks down\u00a0what different councils and councillors do, the local election\u00a0timeline, the rules around\u00a0purdah\u00a0and the biggest\u00a0future issues\u00a0facing councils.<\/p>\n<p>As local councils are responsible for a broad range of services \u2013 from education, libraries and highways to local planning, council tax and rubbish collection \u2013 few comms teams can afford to ignore them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/resources\/white-papers\/your-guide-to-local-elections\/\">Download the guide here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vuelio has published Your Guide to Local Elections, which\u00a0breaks down\u00a0what different councils and councillors do, the local election\u00a0timeline, the rules around\u00a0purdah\u00a0and the biggest\u00a0future issues\u00a0facing councils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":122188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122193,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122191\/revisions\/122193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}