On Thursday 7th May 2026 voters in 134 local authority areas will have the chance to elect nearly 5000 new councillors. The election is a huge opportunity to put our campaign on the map, by encouraging candidates to pledge to stop using bailiffs
before they are even elected. This will give us useful leverage post-election. We also want existing councillors, where there’s no election this time round, to sign up to the campaign.
This briefing is a guide for supporters on how and why to target their local councillors in the upcoming elections in May.