The whole county of the West Midlands headed out to the polls in local elections yesterday (Thursday, May 7)—with hundreds of thousands voting for full councils in Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell, Solihull, and Walsall, as well as one-third of Dudley and Wolverhampton local authorities. All results are expected to trickle in throughout today (Friday, May 8), so here’s how all seven metropolitan boroughs in the West Midlands voted in the 2026 local elections.
What are the 2026 local election results in the West Midlands?
Birmingham (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Reform: 23 (+23)
Green: 19 (+17)
Labour: 17 (-46)
Conservative: 16 (-6)
Other: 14 (+14)
Liberal Democrat 12 (0)
Coventry (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Labour: 24 (-17)
Reform UK: 20 (+20)
Conservative: 6 (-5)
Green: 4 (+2)
Dudley (Conservative → No overall majority) ⚪
25 out of 72 council seats were up for election in Dudley, with the council now:
Conservative: 27 (-7)
Reform: 23 (+22)
Labour: 15 (-13)
Liberal Democrat: 4 (-1)
Other: 3 (-1)
Sandwell (Labour → Reform) 🔵
Reform: 41 (+41)
Labour: 28 (-37)
Green: 2 (+2)
Other: 1 (0)
Conservative: 0 (-6)
Solihull (Conservative → No overall majority) ⚪
Conservative: 24 (-6)
Reform: 17 (+17)
Liberal Democrat: 6 (-2)
Green: 4 (-7)
Labour 0 (-1)
Other: 0 (-1)
Walsall (No party majority → Reform) 🔵
Reform: 40 (+40)
Conservative: 10 (-28)
Other: 9 (+6)
Labour: 1 (-18)
Wolverhampton (Labour hold) 🔴
21 out of 60 council seats were up for election in Wolverhampton:
Labour: 35 (-11)
Reform: 13 (+12)
Conservative: 10 (-1)
Other: 2 (0)
What are the other nearby results?
Cannock Chase (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Reform: 14 (+13)
Labour: 10 (-8)
Conservative: 8 (-3)
Green: 3 (-2)
Other: 1 (0)
Redditch (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Labour: 13 (-6)
Reform: 8 (+8)
Conservative: 4 (-1)
Other: 2 (0)
Green: 0 (-1)
Rugby (No overall majority) ⚪
Conservative: 15 (-3)
Liberal Democrat: 12 (+3)
Labour: 12 (-3)
Reform: 3 (+3)
Tamworth (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Labour: 14 (-2)
Reform: 10 (+9)
Conservative: 3 (-6)
Green: 1 (0)
Other: 1 (-1)
Nuneaton & Bedworth (Labour → No overall majority) ⚪
Reform: 15 (+15)
Labour: 11 (-8)
Conservative: 9 (-8)
Green: 3 (+1)
This article will be updated regularly.
