Electioncast: The Mega May Run In
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the biggest set of elections in the UK since the 2024 General Election.
Laura and Paddy run through what the polls tell us, how insiders are feeling, and the challenges each of the parties face in different parts of Britain.
Political correspondent Joe Pike joins to help, as well as reveal the insights you can gather from looking inside a communal bin.
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| 0:24.5 | Laura is clutching some books that look like old photo albums. |
| 0:28.9 | They are old photo albums from the 1990s. |
| 0:31.4 | We have to find them on eBay. |
| 0:32.6 | What's in them? |
| 0:33.6 | Do you really want to know? |
| 0:35.2 | You looked like you just raided the stationery club at school. I was so excited. So these are my election flippers. Right. And I have an amazing producer who very, very, very kindly compiles all these for me so I can look like I know what I'm talking about on Thursday and Friday night. Inside, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da are all my notes about all the different constituencies and councils in the country |
| 0:56.6 | so what's the colour coding there's two blue two red so because the elections are mega mays |
| 1:01.0 | we've been saying for months which marvellously other people are now calling it |
| 1:03.7 | there are going to be a set of elections which will have the results coming in on Thursday night |
| 1:09.0 | from english councils this is the english council flipper right which will have the results coming in on Thursday night. Really? From English councils. |
| 1:14.1 | This is the English council flipper. |
| 1:14.6 | Right. |
| 1:18.1 | And you'll see it's not completely chock-full because there's the smallest number of results. |
| 1:20.7 | This is good this, isn't it? |
| 1:22.5 | Then we've got the Friday English results. |
| 1:26.7 | Dall-la-la. |
| 1:27.3 | Absolutely chock-a-block. |
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