Local elections forecast a Reform UK wipeout across Nuneaton and Bedworth. The Pollcheck website projects that Reform will take 14 of the 18 seats that will be up for grabs at the borough council.
A colour-coded map of the borough is almost all turquoise with just one forecast seat for Labour, which is red, two for the Conservatives, dark blue, and two for the Green Party.
The website indicates that Labour stand to only keep hold of the St Mary’s ward losing Camp Hill, Galley Common, Arbury, Attleborough in Nuneaton as well as Bede and the Heath wards seats it currently holds in Bedworth to Reform.
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The Conservatives are set to retain Whitestone and Bulkington but are forecast to lose Poplar, Exhall and Slough in Bedworth as well as St Nicolas in Nuneaton to Reform.
The Green Party is predicted to retain the Weddington seat and win the Milby seat, which used to be part of the Weddington ward.
Only half of the 34 seats at the Town Hall are being contested as elections are held every other year, with half the council being elected each time.
Currently the council is no overall control, with Labour with the minority administration. However, if the Pollcheck website polling is correct, Labour is almost certain to lose this.
Four of the six Labour cabinet members who currently run the council, including leader Councillor Steve Hey, are all contesting their seats and, if the forecast is correct, only one of them would retain their seat – current St Mary’s ward representative, Cllr Nicky King.
The projected May local election results map for Nuneaton and Bedworth wards, with Reform UK in turquoise blue, according to the Pollcheck website(Image: Image: Pollcheck)
The forecast shows a repeat of the last year’s Warwickshire County Council elections where Reform effectively secured 12 out of 13 seats across the borough – one via a Reform-supporting independent whose employment restrictions prevented him from being formally affiliated with the party.
With voters due to go to the polls on May 7, there remains several weeks for campaigning and there could be major shifts in voting patterns before locals put their ‘x’ in the box.
What is known is that all eyes will be on the borough council count on Friday, May 8 to see if the pollsters predictions were correct, and CoventryLive will be there to bring all of the updates as they happen.
For the full list of all of the candidates standing for seats at the Town Hall, see our story here
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