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Deadlines announced for city council election voting
Express and Echo
|March 05, 2026
PEOPLE have until April 20 to make sure they are registered to vote in the Exeter polls which almost didn't happen.
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Only a late government U-turn signalled the go-ahead for the elections for 13 city council seats on Thursday, May 7.
The council's Labour administration had initially asked the government to postpone the elections, saying it would save the authority £250,000 and free up officers to prepare for the forthcoming local government reorganisation.
Some argued that there was little point electing members of a "zombie" council which would cease to exist in two years anyway.
But opponents said Labour was "running scared", having done badly the last time the city went to the polls for the county council elections last year. They also said it was undemocratic to call off the elections this year, and Reform UK mounted a nationwide legal challenge.
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