Trailer - Local Elections May 2019

Elections will be held on Thursday 2th May 2019 in 248 English Local Authorities; 5 new authorities created by mergers are electing for the first time.

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

33 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors in each
Barnsley Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Dudley Gateshead Kirklees	Knowsley Leeds + Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale	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 * (ECO) Bedford (M) Blackpool Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole ¹ * (ECO) Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Central Bedfordshire + Cheshire East	Cheshire West & Chester * (ECO) Darlington Dorset ² * (ECO) East Riding of Yorkshire Herefordshire + Leicester (M) Luton Medway	Middlesbrough (M) North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham * (ECO) Redcar & Cleveland * (ECO) Rutland * + (ECO) South Gloucestershire * (ECO)	Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Telford & Wrekin Torbay * (ECO) West Berkshire (ECO) Windsor & Maidenhead * (ECO) York
¹ replacing the 3 separate authorities (and Dorset CC functions in Christchurch). ² unitary based on Dorset CC subsuming functions of East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset and Weymouth & Portland BC. Election for 5-year term, retiring 2024.
17 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors in each
Blackburn with Darwen Derby Halton Hartlepool Hull	Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire Peterborough Plymouth	Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton	Southend-on-Sea Swindon Thurrock Wokingham
121 Second-tier districts - all councillors
Allerdale * (ECO) Arun Ashfield Ashford * (ECO) Babergh * (ECO) Barrow-in-Furness Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover * (ECO) Boston Braintree + Breckland Broadland Bromsgrove Broxtowe Canterbury + Carlisle * (ECO) Charnwood Chelmsford Chesterfield Chichester * (ECO) Copeland (M) * (ECO) Cotswold Crawley * (ECO) Dacorum Dartford * (ECO) Derbyshire Dales Dover * (ECO) East Cambridgeshire * (ECO) East Devon * (ECO) East Hampshire * (ECO)	East Herts + East Lindsey East Staffordshire East Suffolk ¹ * (ECO) Eastbourne * (ECO) Eden Epsom & Ewell Erewash Fenland Folkestone & Hythe Forest of Dean * (ECO) Fylde Gedling Gravesham Great Yarmouth (F) Guildford Hambleton Harborough * (ECO) Hertsmere * (ECO) High Peak Hinckley & Bosworth Horsham * (ECO) King's Lynn & W. Norfolk * (ECO) Lancaster Lewes * (ECO) Lichfield Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield (M) Melton	Mendip Mid Devon Mid Suffolk * (ECO) Mid Sussex New Forest Newark & Sherwood + North Devon * (ECO) North East Derbyshire * (ECO) North Kesteven North Norfolk * (ECO) North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Norwich * (ECO) Oadby & Wigston Preston * (ECO) Reigate & Banstead * (ECO) Ribble Valley * (ECO) Richmondshire * (ECO) Rother * (ECO) Runnymede * (ECO) Rushcliffe Ryedale Scarborough * (ECO) Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks + Somerset West & Taunton ² (ECO) South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland	South Kesteven South Norfolk * (ECO) + South Oxfordshire + + South Ribble South Somerset * (ECO) South Staffordshire Spelthorne Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stratford-on-Avon Surrey Heath * (ECO) Swale Teignbridge * (ECO) Tendring * (ECO) Test Valley * (ECO) + Tewkesbury * (ECO) Thanet Tonbridge & Malling + Torridge * (ECO) Uttlesford Vale of White Horse + + Warwick * (ECO) Waverley Wealden * (ECO) West Devon West Lindsey West Suffolk ³ * (ECO) Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest (F)
¹ replacing Waveney & Suffolk Coastal. ² replacing West Somerset & Taunton Deane. ³ replacing Forest Heath & St Edmundsbury.
47 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors in each
Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke & Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Castle Point Cherwell + Chorley Colchester	Craven Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Harlow Hart Havant Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone	Mole Valley North Hertfordshire Pendle Redditch Rochford Rossendale Rugby Rushmoor St Albans South Lakeland Stevenage Tamworth	Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing

May 2015 First draft.
May 2015. Removed Stroud (changed to all-up 2016).
Oct 2015. Changes expected in East Cambridgeshire, Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother & Wealden.
Jan 2016. Remove Birmingham, Doncaster. Move Stratford-on-Avon to all-up.
Feb 2016. Changes expected in Chichester. Deleted Gloucester & Warrington (changed to all-up 2016). Wyre Forest changing to all-up.
Mar 2016. Deleted Newcastle-under-Lyme (changed to all-up 2018).
May 2016. Changes expected in Teignbridge & Torridge
Jul 2016. Changes expected in Surrey Heath, Taunton Deane, Ashford, North Norfolk & South Norfolk
Sep 2016. Final Recommendations for East Cambridgeshire. Minor changes ECOs for Newark and Sherwood, Rutland & Sevenoaks.
Jan 2017. Final Recommendations for Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother & Wealden. Changes expected in Allerdale, Bolsover, Chichester, East Devon, Harborough, Hertsmere, Horsham, North East Derbyshire, Tendring & Tewkesbury. ECOs for East Cambridgeshire, Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother & Wealden.
Feb 2017. Final Recommendations for Teignbridge & Torridge. Minor changes in St Edmundsbury, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse.
Mar 2017. Final Recommendations for South Norfolk.
Apr 2017. Final Recommendations for North Norfolk. Changes expected in Cheshire West & Chester, Forest of Dean, Preston and South Gloucestershire. ECO for Chichester.
May 2017. Remove South Cambridgeshire, changed to all-up 2018.
Jul 2017. Final Recommendations for Allerdale, Ashford, East Devon, Harborough, Horsham and Tendring. Changes expected in Babergh, East Hampshire, King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Mid Suffolk, Nottingham, Richmondshire, Scarborough and Torbay.
Sep 2017. Final Recommendations for Bolsover, North East Derbyshire, Ribble Valley and Surrey Heath. Changes expected in Bath & NE Somerset, Dartford, North Devon, Redcar & Cleveland, Rutland, South Somerset and Windsor & Maidenhead.
Nov 2017. Final Recommendations for Rotherham, Test Valley and Tewkesbury. ECOs for Allerdale, Ashford, Horsham, South Norfolk, Teignbridge and Torridge.
Dec 2017. Remove Huntingdonshire, changed to all-up 2018. Changes expected in Basingstoke & Deane, Copeland, Runnymede and Warwick. Final Recommendations for Harborough, Hertsmere, Tendring.
Jan 2018. ECOs for Bolsover, East Devon, North East Derbyshire, North Norfolk, Ribble Valley, Surrey Heath, Test Valley, and Tewkesbury. Remove Harrogate, changed to all-up 2018. Final Recommendations for Forest of Dean, Preston, South Gloucestershire, West Berkshire.
Feb 2018. Changes expected in Crawley, Dover, Norwich, Reigate & Banstead. Final Recommendations for Torbay.
Mar 2018. Flag up probable Dorset reorganisation. Changes expected in Carlisle. Note also possible reorganisation in Buckinghamshire. Also likely formation of Somerset West & Taunton.
Apr 2018. Final Recommendations for East Hampshire, King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Nottingham, Richmondshire, Rutland, and Scarborough.
4 May 2018. ECOs for Forest of Dean, Hertsmere, Preston, South Gloucestershire, and West Berkshire.
6 May 2018. Name change Shepway to Folkestone & Hythe. 8 May 2018. Final Recommendations for North Devon and South Somerset.
10 May 2018. Great Yarmouth changing to all-up elections.
28 May 2018. Not Rotherham (all up 2020) or Bristol (all-up 2016). East Suffolk replaces Waveney and Suffolk Coastal. West Suffolk replaces Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury. Somerset West & Taunton replaces West Somerset & Taunton Deane. Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole replaces those districts; Dorset (unitary) replaces other Dorset districts (and the County).
5 Jun 2018. Final Recommendations for Dartford and Redcar & Cleveland.
7 Jul 2018. ECOs for Cheshire West & Chester, and Torbay.
21 Jul 2018. Final Recommendations for Windsor & Maidenhead. ECOs for East Hampshire, Kings Lynn & West Norfolk, Nottingham, Richmondshire, and Scarborough.
2 Oct 2018. Final Recommendations for Babergh, Bath & North East Somerset, Crawley, Dover, Mid Suffolk, Reigate & Banstead, Runnymede, and Warwick.
7 Dec 2018. ECOs for Bath & NE Somerset, Dartford, North Devon, Redcar & Cleveland, South Somerset, and Windsor & Maidenhead. Final Recommendations for Bournemouth, Carlisle, Christchurch & Poole, Dorset, East Suffolk, Norwich, Somerset West & Taunton, West Suffolk
20 Dec 2018. Elections in Northampshire districts (Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough) cancelled pending unitary re-organisation. Statutory Instrument
27 Dec 2018. No mayoral election in Torbay.
6 Feb 2019. Elections in Buckinghamshire districts (Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks, Wycombe) also cancelled pending unitary re-organisation (Statutory Instrument). ECOs for Dover, Reigate & Banstead, and Runnymede. Minor changes in Babergh, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole, Central Bedfordshire, Dorset, East Suffolk, Leeds, Mid Suffolk, Rutland, Somerset West & Taunton, South Norfolk, South Oxfordshire, Warwick, and West Suffolk.
23 Mar 2019. ECOs for Carlisle, Crawley, Norwich. Minor changes in Braintree, Canterbury. Cherwell, East Herts, Herefordshire, Test Valley, Tonbridge & Malling and Vale of White Horse (again!). Basingstoke & Deane all-up deferred to 2020.

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