Reform UK on course to win in two mayoral contests – UK politics live
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Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:26:39 +0300

Polling predicts victory for party in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull/East Yorkshire with the Greens possibly taking West of EnglandThere are six mayoral elections next week.
Two of them are for singleauthority mayors Doncaster and North Tyneside, but the others are for combinedauthority mayors or regional mayors like metro mayors, but not just covering city regions.
Today YouGov has released polling covering all four of these contests and it suggests Reform UK is on course to win two of them easily.
And the Green party is narrowly ahead in a third, the poll suggests.Here are the polling figures.In theory the Tories should be winning in Lincolnshire as they hold most of the parliamentary seats in the area and have dominated local politics forever.
But its also the most Reformfriendly part of the country.
It contains Richard Tices constituency and numerous seats in which they came second.
Plus their candidate is a former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns, famous for her Boris Johnson obsession and making a middle finger gesture at a crowd outside Downing Street.
She is, by all accounts, quite a few sandwiches short of a picnic but, nevertheless, is strong favourite to win.
Large chunks of local Conservative parties, including several councillors, have already defected.
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