Trailer - Local Elections May 2026

As of 5th February 2025, elections are scheduled for Thursday 7th May 2026 in all London Boroughs, 111 other English Local Authorities, and all Scottish Councils. These numbers are almost certain to change as Unitary plans are advanced.

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.

7 County Councils (all-up)
East Sussex +
Essex * (ECO)
 Hampshire
Norfolk * (ECO)
 Suffolk * (ECO) +
Surrey * (ECO)
 West Sussex
32 London Boroughs - all councillors
(M) - simultaneous Mayoral election
Barking & Dagenham
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Camden
Croydon
Ealing
 Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney (M)
Hammersmith & Fulham
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon
 Hounslow
Islington
Kensington & Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham (M)
Merton
Newham (M)
 Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets (M)
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster
16 Metropolitan Boroughs - all-up
Barnsley * (ECO)
Birmingham
Bradford * (ECO)
Calderdale * (ECO)
 Coventry * (ECO)
Gateshead * (ECO)
Kirklees *
Newcastle upon Tyne *
 Sandwell *
Sefton * (ECO)
Solihull *
St Helens
 South Tyneside *
Sunderland *
Wakefield * (ECO)
Walsall * (ECO)
16 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors
Bolton
Bury
Dudley
Knowsley
 Leeds
Manchester
North Tyneside
Oldham
 Rochdale
Salford
Sheffield
Stockport
 Tameside
Trafford
Wigan
Wolverhampton
16 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Blackburn with Darwen
Halton
Hartlepool
Hull
 Isle of Wight (all-up)
Milton Keynes (all-up) *
North East Lincolnshire (all-up) *
Peterborough
 Plymouth
Portsmouth (all-up) *
Reading
Southampton
 Southend-on-Sea (all-up) *
Swindon (all-up) *
Thurrock (F) (ECO)
Wokingham
56 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Adur (one-half)
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Castle Point
Cheltenham (one-half)
Cherwell
Chorley
Colchester (all-up) *
Crawley
 Eastleigh
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham (one-half)
Gosport (one-half)
Harlow
Hart
Hastings (one-half)
Havant
Huntingdonshire (all-up)
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
 Mole Valley
Newcastle-under-Lyme (all-up)
Norwich
Nuneaton & Bedworth (one-half)
Oxford (one-half)
Pendle
Preston
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
 South Cambridgeshire (all-up)
St Albans
Stevenage
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford (M)
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Oxfordshire
Winchester
Woking
Worthing
32 Scottish Councils all-up
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll & Bute
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries & Galloway
Dundee
East Ayrshire
 East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh
Eilean Siar
Falkirk
Fife
Glasgow
 Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian
Moray
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Orkney
Perth & Kinross
 Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian
13 May 2022First draft.
13 Jan 2023Remove Wirral (now all-up 2023 etc.)
1 Apr 2023Remove Slough (now all-up 2023 etc.).
7 May 2023Sorted out that Scottish elections are this year.
13 May 2023Reviews commenced for South Tyneside and Sunderland.
25 May 2023Reviews commenced for Calderdale, Coventry and Gateshead.
30 Jun 2023Review commenced for Bradford.
4 Aug 2023Review commenced for Sefton.
21 Aug 2023Removed Derby (now all-up 2023 etc.).
30 Aug 2023Review commenced for Solihull and Walsall.
26 Sep 2023Review commenced for Kirklees. Removed Maidstone (now all-up 2024 etc.).
13 Nov 2023Review commenced for Barnsley.
27 Nov 2023Review commenced for Wakefield.
16 Jan 2024Review commenced for Swindon.
29 Jan 2024Reviews commenced for Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Thurrock.
1 May 2024Removed North Hertfordshire and Worcester - now all-up 2024 etc.
9 May 2024Review commenced for Milton Keynes. Final recommendations for Calderdale.
20 May 2024Final recommendations for Coventry.
9 Jul 2024Final recommendations for Gateshead and Walsall.
28 Jul 2024Review commenced for Sandwell.
3 Aug 2024Final recommendations for Sunderland. Review commenced for Colchester.
31 Aug 2024Review commenced for Portsmouth.
8 Sep 2024Review commenced for North East Lincolnshire.
24 Sep 2024Review commenced for Southend-on-Sea.
1 Dec 2024ECOs for Calderdale, Coventry, Gateshead and Sefton.
15 Dec 2024Final recommendations for Barnsley, Bradford, Kirklees, South Tyneside, Thurrock and Wakefield.
11 Jan 2025Remove Thurrock (now all-up 2025 etc.) Final recommendations for Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
5 Feb 2025 Elections in East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Thurrock(!) and West Sussex postponed from 2025 pending reorganisation proposals.
9 Feb 2025Final recommendations for Swindon.
12 Feb 2025Reinstated Basildon, Basingstoke & Deane and Brentwood, which must have been accidentally deleted at some point in 2022/3.
24 Feb 2025ECOs for Canterbury, Thurrock & Walsall.
9 Mar 2025Final recommendations for Solihull.
14 Apr 2025ECOs for Barnsley, Bradford and Wakefield.

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