{"id":26327,"date":"2026-07-24T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/?p=26327"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:44:40","slug":"results-of-by-election-for-south-gloucestershire-councils-longwell-green-ward-held-23-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/council\/results-of-by-election-for-south-gloucestershire-councils-longwell-green-ward-held-23-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of by-election for South Gloucestershire Council&#8217;s Longwell Green ward held 23 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the Longwell Green by-election 23 July 2026<\/p>\n<table width=\"696\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Name of candidate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Number of votes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Stephen James Burge<\/td>\n<td>Reform UK<\/td>\n<td>698<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>James Pringle Corrigan<\/td>\n<td>Liberal Democrats<\/td>\n<td>511<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jack Matthew Friend<\/td>\n<td>Labour<\/td>\n<td>246<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Graham Daniel Hardwell<\/td>\n<td>Conservative<\/td>\n<td>951<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rachael Emily Ward<\/td>\n<td>Green<\/td>\n<td>143<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Elected candidate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham Daniel Hardwell has been elected as councillor for the Longwell Green ward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electorate: 7,587<\/p>\n<p>Turnout: 33.62%<\/p>\n<p>Total number of votes: 2,551<\/p>\n<p>The number of spoiled ballots: 2<\/p>\n<p>For more information about election results in South Gloucestershire visit <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.southglos.gov.uk\/election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election results | BETA &#8211; South Gloucestershire Council<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the Longwell Green by-election 23 July 2026 Name of candidate Description Number of votes Stephen James Burge Reform UK 698 James Pringle Corrigan Liberal Democrats 511 Jack Matthew Friend Labour 246 Graham Daniel Hardwell Conservative 951 Rachael Emily Ward Green 143 Elected candidate: Graham Daniel Hardwell has been elected as councillor for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2711],"tags":[1814,2715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26332,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions\/26332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}