Trailer - Local Elections May 2026

Elections will be held on Thursday 7th May 2026 in all London Boroughs, 102 other English Local Authorities, and all Scottish Councils.

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.

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
13 Metropolitan Boroughs - all-up
Barnsley *
Birmingham
Bradford *
Calderdale *
Coventry *
Gateshead *
Kirklees *
St Helens
Sefton *
Solihull *
South Tyneside *
Sunderland *
Walsall *
19 Metropolitan Boroughs - one-third of councillors
Bolton
Bury
Dudley
Knowsley
Leeds
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Salford
Sandwell
Sheffield
Stockport
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Wigan
Wolverhampton
15 Unitary authorities - one-third of councillors in each
Blackburn with Darwen
Halton
Hartlepool
Hull
Milton Keynes
North East Lincolnshire
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Swindon
Thurrock
Wokingham
55 Second-tier districts - one-third of councillors except where indicated
Adur (one-half)
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Castle Point
Cheltenham (one-half)
Cherwell
Chorley
Colchester
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)
North Hertfordshire
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
Worcester
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 2022: First draft.

13 January 2023: Remove Wirral (now all-up 2023 etc.)

1 April 2023: Remove Slough (now all-up 2023 etc.).

7 May 2023: Sorted out that Scottish elections are this year.

13 May 2023: Reviews commenced for South Tyneside and Sunderland.

25 May 2023: Reviews commenced for Calderdale, Coventry and Gateshead.

30 June 2023: Review commenced for Bradford.

4 Aug 2023: Review commenced for Sefton.

21 Aug 2023: Removed Derby (now all-up 2023 etc.).

30 Aug 2023: Review commenced for Solihull, Walsall.

26 Sep 2023: Review commenced for Kirklees. Removed Maidstone (now all-up 2024 etc.).

13 Nov 2023: Review commenced for Barnsley.

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