Three Liberal Democrat MPs are calling for guarantees that Hampshire County Council will reject any measure for elections to be delayed.
MPs Alex Brewer, Danny Chambers, and Liz Jarvis are seeking guarantees from Hampshire County Council that the authority will not seek to delay the elections planned for May 2026.
Their call follows the Government's offer on December 18 to allow councils to request a delay to May’s elections should councils request it.
Winchester MP Danny Chambers wrote to Hampshire County Council leader Councillor Nick Adams-King, to ask him to guarantee he will not be asking the Government for a delay, and that elections will go ahead.
The trio said: "Hampshire County Council is facing a budget shortfall in the hundreds of millions of pounds, while council across our area are working on complex local government re-organisation.
"Local people deserve their say and councillors must have up-to-date mandates, not out-of-date mandates when taking these important decisions."
Hampshire's county elections were already delayed from May 2025 to 2026.
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They continued: "Liberal Democrats have consistently spoken out against delayed elections and look forward to local people being given a real choice in May 2026."
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