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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) | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 |
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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. | |||
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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 |
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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 |
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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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