{"id":76234,"date":"2026-02-17T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/english-councils-face-race-against-time-to-arrange-elections-leaders-say\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:00:13","slug":"english-councils-face-race-against-time-to-arrange-elections-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/english-councils-face-race-against-time-to-arrange-elections-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"English councils face \u2018race against time\u2019 to arrange elections, leaders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cb8e7bfc2c9e53b5aabbdcc42ab7196867d0a98c\/674_13_1534_1227\/master\/1534.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=36acd4da20250317e340f180a7cde7a5\" alt=\"English councils face \u2018race against time\u2019 to arrange elections, leaders say\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">English councils face \u2018race against time\u2019 to arrange elections, leaders say<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Government drops plan to delay May ballots for 30 councils undergoing reorganisation, leaving 11 weeks to prepareCouncils are experiencing \u201cwhiplash\u201d and face an \u201cunnecessary race against time\u201d to organise ballots after the government abandoned plans to delay 30 council elections in England, local authority leaders have said.Ministers had wanted to delay elections at councils undergoing major reorganisation, with many set to be merged or subsumed into others, but faced a legal challenge from Reform UK, which argued the delay was undemocratic. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/16\/english-councils-unnecessary-race-against-time-organise-elections-leaders-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts English councils face \u2018race against time\u2019 to arrange elections, leaders say Government drops plan to delay May ballots for 30 councils undergoing reorganisation, leaving 11 weeks to prepareCouncils are experiencing \u201cwhiplash\u201d and face an \u201cunnecessary race against time\u201d to organise ballots after the government abandoned plans to delay 30 council elections in England, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}