Trailer - Local Elections May 2016

Elections were held on Thursday 5th May 2016 in 124 English Local Authorities. (Elections to Welsh & Scottish councils had been deferred to 2017.)

Links on authority names are to LGBCE Final Reports on boundary changes. ECO = link to Electoral Change Order.
* = complete re-warding; + = minor boundary changes. (M) - simultaneous Mayoral election. (F) change to full council elections.

35 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Dudley Gateshead	Kirklees Knowsley (all-up) * (ECO) Leeds Liverpool (M) Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale	Rotherham (all-up) (F) St Helens Salford (M) Sandwell Sefton Sheffield (all-up) * (ECO) Solihull South Tyneside Stockport	Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
19 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Blackburn with Darwen Bristol (all-up) (MF) * (ECO) Derby Halton Hartlepool	Hull Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire Peterborough (all-up) * (ECO) Plymouth	Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea	Swindon Thurrock Warrington (all-up) (F) * (ECO) Wokingham
70 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Adur (one-half) Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke & Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cheltenham (one-half) Cherwell (all-up) * (ECO) Chorley Colchester (all-up) * (ECO) Craven Crawley Daventry	Eastleigh Elmbridge (all-up) * (ECO) Epping Forest Exeter (all-up) * (ECO) Fareham (one-half) Gloucester (all-up) (F) * (ECO) Gosport (one-half) Great Yarmouth Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings (one-half) Havant Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln (all-up) * (ECO) Maidstone	Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton & Bedworth (one-half) Oxford (one-half) Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate & Banstead Rochford (all-up) * (ECO) Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor St Albans South Cambridgeshire	South Lakeland Stevenage Stroud (all-up) (F) * (ECO) Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford (all-up) * (ECO) Welwyn Hatfield (all-up) * (ECO) West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Weymouth & Portland Winchester (all-up) * (ECO) Woking (all-up) * (ECO) Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest

May 2012. First draft.
Feb 2014. Cherwell and Lincoln all-up for boundary changes.
Aug 2014. Added Bristol, changing to all-up. Changes expected in Bristol, Gloucester & Rochford.
Dec 2014. Changes expected in Knowsley, Stroud, Winchester.
Jan 2015. Changes expected in Peterborough & Woking.
Feb 2015. Rotherham likely to be all-up and change to full council elections.
Feb 2015. Changes expected in Elmbridge & Exeter. Final Recommendations for Lincoln, Peterborough & Woking.
May 2015. Removed Bassetlaw, Hertsmere & Purbeck (changed to all-up 2015).
May 2015. Final Recommendations for Colchester & Sheffield.
May 2015. Stroud is changing to all-up elections.
May 2015. Changes expected in Warrington, Watford & Welwyn Hatfield. Final Recommendations for Bristol & Cherwell.
Jun 2015. Welsh & Scottish councils deferred to 2017.
Oct 2015. Lincoln & Woking ECOs. Final Recommendations for Exeter, Gloucester, Knowsley, Stroud & Winchester.
Jan 2016. Final Recommendations for Elmbridge, Warrington, Watford & Welwyn Hatfield. Also Rochford (previously overlooked). 10 ECOs. No elections in Doncaster (all-up 2017 etc.), Stratford-on-Avon (all-up 2015 etc.). Rotherham definitely all-up.
Feb 2016. Exeter, Warrington, Watford & Welwyn Hatfield ECOs.
Apr 2016. ECO for Elmbridge.
Gloucester & Warrington changing to full-council elections.

Comments and correction to Keith Edkins: