Electioncast: It’s Time To Vote!
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are live as we count down to the Senedd, Holyrood and English local elections happening on Thursday.
With less than 24 hours to go until the polls open, the parties are making their final efforts to win over voters across the UK. Adam, Chris, Laura, Felicity and James put their heads together to give a rundown of what’s dominated the campaign trails and how that might shape the next few days.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, this is our mega live pre-elections election cast special. |
| 0:10.0 | Were there enough words in that title? |
| 0:11.5 | Basically, this is your last episode of newscast before voting in the elections for local |
| 0:16.0 | authorities in England, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senate. |
| 0:19.8 | And we're going to touch lots and lots of |
| 0:21.4 | bases. And this was broadcast live on the BBC News Channel and I player on Thursday evening. So you can |
| 0:27.9 | imagine it's got a bit of a live vibe to it. And if you stay right till the end, there will be a bonus for |
| 0:32.2 | you as a podcast listener, which is me and Chris catching up with our new celebrity pal, Paddy McGuinness |
| 0:37.1 | from Radio 2 after our guest appearance on his quiz. |
| 0:40.9 | And there's going to be a lot of news that you're going to want to get your heads around in the next few days. |
| 0:45.7 | And if you want to make sure you never miss an episode of newscast as we bring you all that news and the best analysis in the business, |
| 0:52.3 | then you can subscribe to us on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:55.4 | and you will never miss an episode of Newscast, an episode such as this one. |
| 1:01.6 | Newscast. |
| 1:02.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:07.5 | Hello, it is Adam in the Newscast studio. |
| 1:10.0 | And hello, it's Laura in the Newscast studio. And Laura, in classic style, because you've got many programmes to make over the next 36 hours. You're going to be here for about 10 minutes. I'll be here for 10 minutes. Marvelous 10 minutes that let's hope they will be. Yes, and that will seem very short compared to the 36 hours of broadcasting you will be doing. Yes, we are going to be on air, not me all the time, but me much of the time for 21 hours on BBC 1. It's almost like there's a lot of results in a lot of different elections to get our heads round. Almost like there's a big contest on. Should we just remind everyone what we're actually looking out for? So we've got in England, lots of local authorities, but not all of them, but 136 of them, 5,000 councillors. That's right. More than 5,000 councillors, as you said, |
| 1:47.8 | 130. Lots of local authorities, but not all of them, but 136 of them, 5,000 councillors. |
| 1:45.0 | That's right. |
| 1:45.4 | More than 5,000 councillors, as you said, 136 town halls up for grabs. |
| 1:50.7 | They are dotted around the country, not everywhere, but all the boroughs in London. |
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