{"id":1033,"date":"2024-01-14T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/?page_id=1033"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:41:05","slug":"elections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>**Election news will appear here**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of local elections can also be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/blog\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1077\">blog<\/a> and at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northnorthants.gov.uk\/elections-and-voting\">North Northamptonshire Council<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellingboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk\/election\/\">Wellingborough Town Council<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Election 24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The General Election was on Thursday 5th July 2024, and on the Thursday before Glamis Hall and Wellingborough Eco Group asked the candidates your questions, at a hustings event at 7pm on Thursday 27th July.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a044eebaa6c7&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a044eebaa6c7\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"600\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Hustings-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Hustings-2.jpg 849w, 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\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New Wellingborough and Rushden Constituency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"1118\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Old-Wboro-Constituency.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Old-Wboro-Constituency.png 447w, https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Old-Wboro-Constituency-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Old Wellingborough Constituency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65602231\">law change last year<\/a>, people who voted in person on 5th July had to remember to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northnorthants.gov.uk\/elections-and-voting\/id-vote\">bring a form of photo ID<\/a>&nbsp;with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six candidates were nominated including representatives from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SDP and Reform UK. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by SURNAME, First Name &#8211; <em>Party<\/em> &#8211; Where they are from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/sdp.svg\" alt=\"\">Social Democratic Party, Jeremy Brittin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/conservative.svg\" alt=\"\">Conservative, David Goss<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/reformuk.svg\" alt=\"\">Reform UK, Ben Habib<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/labour.svg\" alt=\"\">Labour, Gen Kitchen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/green.svg\" alt=\"\">Green, Paul Mannion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/elections\/images\/uk2024general\/logos\/liberal_democrat.svg\" alt=\"\">Liberal Democrat, Christopher Townsend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellingborough Organisations covered the election on our Social Media outlets and <a href=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/forum\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1025\">Wellingborough Forum<\/a> groups.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Election-24a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Election-24a.jpg 733w, https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Election-24a-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Election-24a-720x218.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Election news will appear here** Details of local elections can also be found on our blog and at: Election 24 The General Election was on Thursday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1033","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingborough.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}