Trailer - Local Elections May 2015

Elections were be held on Thursday 7th May 2015 in 279 English Local Authorities.

Links on authority names are to LGBCE Final Reports on boundary changes, or Full Council Election decisions coming into effect with these elections.
ECO = link to Electoral Change Order. * = complete re-warding; + = minor boundary changes. (M) - simultaneous Mayoral election. (F) change to full council elections.

36 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors in each
Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster (all-up) * (ECO) Dudley	Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham	Rochdale Rotherham St Helens Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside	Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
30 Unitary authorities - all councillors
Bath & N.E. Somerset Bedford (M) Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East	Cheshire West & Chester Darlington * (ECO) East Riding of Yorkshire Herefordshire * (ECO) Leicester * (ECO) Luton Medway Middlesbrough (M) * (ECO)	North Lincolnshire North Somerset * (ECO) Nottingham Poole * (ECO) Redcar & Cleveland Rutland South Gloucestershire Stockton-on-Tees	Stoke-on-Trent Telford & Wrekin * (ECO) Torbay (M) West Berkshire Windsor & Maidenhead York * (ECO)
19 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors in each
Blackburn with Darwen Bristol Derby Halton Hartlepool	Hull Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire Peterborough Plymouth	Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea	Swindon + Thurrock Warrington Wokingham
132 Second-tier districts - all councillors
Allerdale Arun * (ECO) Ashfield * (ECO) Ashford Aylesbury Vale * (ECO) Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Bassetlaw (F) Blaby + Bolsover + Boston * (ECO) Braintree * (ECO) Breckland * (ECO) Broadland Bromsgrove * (ECO) Broxtowe * (ECO) Canterbury * (ECO) Charnwood Chelmsford Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Copeland Corby * (ECO) Cotswold * (ECO) Dacorum Dartford Derbyshire Dales Dover East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset * (ECO)	East Hampshire East Herts East Lindsey * (ECO) East Northamptonshire + East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eden Epsom & Ewell Erewash * (ECO) Fenland * (ECO) Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling * (ECO) Gravesham Guildford Hambleton * (ECO) Harborough Hertsmere (F) High Peak * (ECO) Hinckley & Bosworth Horsham + Kettering King's Lynn & W. Norfolk ++ Lancaster * (ECO) Lewes Lichfield * (ECO) Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield (M) Melton Mendip Mid Devon	Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex New Forest Newark & Sherwood * (ECO) North Devon + North Dorset * (ECO) North East Derbyshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire * (ECO) Northampton Oadby & Wigston Purbeck (F) * (ECO) + Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rother Rushcliffe * (ECO) Ryedale St Edmundsbury Scarborough Sedgemoor Selby * (ECO) Sevenoaks + Shepway * (ECO) South Bucks * (ECO) South Derbyshire South Hams * (ECO) South Holland South Kesteven * (ECO) South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire * (ECO)	South Ribble * (ECO) South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne Stafford * (ECO) Staffordshire Moorlands Stratford-on-Avon * (ECO) Suffolk Coastal * (ECO) Surrey Heath Swale * (ECO) Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Tonbridge & Malling * (ECO) Torridge Uttlesford * (ECO) Vale of White Horse * (ECO) Warwick * (ECO) Waveney Waverley Wealden Wellingborough * (ECO) West Devon * (ECO) West Dorset * (ECO) West Lindsey * (ECO) West Somerset Wychavon Wycombe Wyre * (ECO) Wyre Forest * (ECO)
62 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors in each
Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke & Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cherwell Chorley Colchester Craven ++ Crawley Daventry	Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Gloucester Great Yarmouth Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone Mole Valley	Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate & Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby + Runnymede Rushmoor St Albans South Cambridgeshire South Lakeland	Stevenage Stroud Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Weymouth & Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing

Oct 2011. First draft.
Jan 2012. West Lindsey ECO.
Mar 2012. Mark expected boundary changes.
Apr 2012. Minor change in North Devon.
Oct 2012. Purbeck all-up. 3 boundary change reports.
Dec 2012. ECO for Swale. Minor change in Blaby. 6 sets of boundary changes expected.
Feb 2013. ECOs for Boston, Purbeck and Tonbridge & Malling, and minor changes.
May 2013. Final Recommendations for Gedling, Hambleton, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and Warwick. 6 more sets of boundary changes expected.
Aug 2013. Final Recommendations for Bromsgrove. 5 more sets of boundary changes expected.
Oct 2013. Final Recommendations for East Dorset, Lancaster and Uttlesford. 8 more sets of boundary changes expected.
Nov 2013. ECOs for Arun & Rushcliffe.
Nov 2013. Final Recommendations for Bromsgrove, Middlesbrough and Wyre.
Feb 2014. Final Recommendations for Selby, Shepway and Telford & Wrekin. Moved Woking and Stratford to all-up. 7 ECOs.
May 2014. ECOs for East Lindsey, Lancaster, Middlesbrough and Wyre.
May 2014. Minor changes in Sevenoaks.
Aug 2014. ECOs for Newark & Sherwood, North Dorset, Shepway, Telford & Wrekin, Uttlesford and Wellingborough. Minor changes in Horsham. Final Recommendations for Aylesbury Vale, Braintree, Corby, Erewash, North Somerset, Suffolk Coastal, West Dorset and York.
Nov 2014. Correction - no review in Wokingham.
Dec 2014. ECOs for North West Leicestershire, South Hams, South Kesteven & Stratford-on-Avon. Final Recommendations for Ashfield, Broxtowe, Canterbury, Cotswold, Darlington, Doncaster, High Peak, Leicester, Lichfield, Poole, South Bucks, Stafford, West Devon & Wyre Forest. Minor changes in Bolsover.
Jan 2015. Peterborough & Woking changes not due until 2016. 10 ECOs.
Feb 2015. 13 ECOs, 3 minor changes.
Mar 2015. Bassetlaw and Hertsmere changed to all-up. Minor changes East Northamptonshire. May 2015. Belated addition of ECO for East Dorset.

Comments and correction to Keith Edkins: