{"id":54674,"date":"2026-06-16T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/polls-open-on-thursday-for-the-makerfield-by-election\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:18:24","slug":"polls-open-on-thursday-for-the-makerfield-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/polls-open-on-thursday-for-the-makerfield-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls open on Thursday for the Makerfield by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Polls open on Thursday for the Makerfield by-election with 14 candidates vying to become the constituency&#8217;s MP<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c2lyjvxvdwno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls open on Thursday for the Makerfield by-election with 14 candidates vying to become the constituency&#8217;s MP Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2498,15588,288,3344,10244],"class_list":["post-54674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-byelection","tag-makerfield","tag-open","tag-polls","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54676,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674\/revisions\/54676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}