Trailer - Local Elections May 2021

Elections were held on Thursday 6th May 2021 in 143 English Local Authorities. Most of these had been postponed from 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were also elections for Mayors of 7 Combined Authorities.

Links on authority names are to LGBCE Final Reports on boundary changes. ECO = link to Electoral Change Order.
* = complete re-divisioning; + = minor boundary changes.

21 County Councils (all-up)
Cambridgeshire +
Derbyshire
Devon
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire +
Hertfordshire +
Kent +
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire + +
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Warwickshire
West Sussex
Worcestershire
35 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors in each, except where indicated
Barnsley
Bolton
Bradford
Bury
Calderdale
Coventry
Doncaster (M) (all-up)
Dudley
Gateshead
Kirklees
Knowsley
Leeds
Liverpool (M)
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Rotherham (all-up) * (ECO)
St Helens
Salford (M) (all-up) * (ECO)
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Solihull
South Tyneside
Stockport
Sunderland
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
28 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Blackburn with Darwen
Bristol (all-up) (M)
Buckinghamshire (all-up)¹
Cornwall (all-up) * (ECO)
Derby
Durham (all-up)
Halton (all-up) * (ECO)
Hartlepool (all-up) * (ECO)
Hull
Isle of Wight (all-up) * (ECO)
Milton Keynes
North Northamptonshire (all-up)²
North East Lincolnshire
Northumberland (all-up)
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Shropshire (all-up)
Slough
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Swindon
Thurrock
Warrington (all-up)
West Northamptonshire (all-up)³
Wiltshire (all-up) * + (ECO)
Wokingham
¹ unitary based on Buckinghamshire CC subsuming functions of the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe.
² replacing the districts of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough (and Northamptonshire CC functions therein).
³ replacing the districts of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire (and Northamptonshire CC functions therein).
All these are elected for a 5-year term, retiring 2027.
59 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors unless marked.
Adur (one-half)
Amber Valley
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane (all-up) * (ECO)
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge (all-up) * (ECO)
Cannock Chase
Castle Point
Cheltenham (one-half)
Cherwell
Chorley (all-up) * (ECO)
Colchester
Crawley
Eastleigh
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham (one-half)
Gloucester (all-up)
Gosport (one-half)
Harlow
Hart
Hastings (one-half)
Havant
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
Maidstone
Mole Valley
North Hertfordshire
Norwich
Nuneaton & Bedworth (one-half)
Oxford (all-up) * (ECO)
Pendle (all-up) * (ECO)
Preston
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
St Albans
Stevenage
Stroud (all-up)
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Oxfordshire
Winchester
Woking
Worcester
Worthing
Mayors of Combined Authorities
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough C.A.
Liverpool City Region — Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral


West Midlands C.A. — Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton


West Yorkshire — Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield


Greater Manchester C.A. — Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan


Tees Valley C.A. — Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees


West of England C.A. — Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire

5 May 2017 First draft.
4 May 2018 Changes expected in Isle of Wight.
28 May 2018 Removed Dorset, now a unitary, next elections 2024.
25 Aug 2018 Scotland postponed to 2022.
2 Oct 2018 Changes expected in Wiltshire.
7 Dec 2018. Minor changes in Cambridgeshire. Final Recommendations for Cornwall.
6 Feb 2019. Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire County Councils will probably have been abolished.
23 Mar 2019. Minor changes in Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire (2).
4 Jun 2019. Final Recommendations for Isle of Wight.
20 Jul 2019. ECO for Cornwall. All Welsh districts to have re-warding.
13 Apr 2022. Retrospectively merged in postponed 2020 elections. Unitaries in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. Postponements for Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset.

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