The Conservatives have emerged ahead in a hard-fought borough council election – but failed to secure an overall majorit.y

Residents in one part of Kent will get the chance to vote on the county’s first urban neighbourhood plan when voters go to the polls this week.

A Green Party candidate is hoping it will be fifth time lucky when he stands at the next General Election.

The combination of borough and parish council elections together will see voters in one town electing 374 councillors.

A newly-declared general election hopeful believes boundary changes will help him defeat the sitting MP.

A former council leader has been selected by his party to stand for them at the next general election.

A teacher and mum-of-two is hoping to become the first MP to represent a newly formed Kent constituency at the next general election.

Kent’s only Labour MP says she has been cleared of allegations of antisemitism and transphobia and will stand again in the upcoming General Election.

Parish council elections will become part of voters’ “Super Thursday” next May after a move to hold them at the same time as the borough poll.

Voters in two villages claim they have been left felling ‘disenfranchised’ by a boundary commission’s unpopular choice of ward name.

Members of the largest gurdwara in Europe have elected their new leader.

The Liberal Democrat group has revealed its candidate for the UK’s next general election.

Police are investigating a report of an assault at a gurdwara following a meeting.

A review into the size and boundaries of the county town’s parishes is being put out for public consultation.

What to expect from the election process for the Guru Nanak Darbar’s new mukh sewadar.

Conservative and Independent councillors have denied claims they are acting in cahoots to ‘freeze’ out other groups from top jobs in a council.

A new council leader has been appointed as a rainbow coalition continues to run a local authority.

The number of Conservatives on a council has increased after a former Independent councillor announced she had switched sides.

A new leadership team has been announced for the opposition party in Dartford.

The results are in and Labour have won control of Gravesham Borough Council.