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 2022 | First draft. |
13 Jan 2023 | Remove Wirral (now all-up 2023 etc.) |
1 Apr 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 Jun 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 and Walsall. |
26 Sep 2023 | Review commenced for Kirklees. Removed Maidstone (now all-up 2024 etc.). |
13 Nov 2023 | Review commenced for Barnsley. |
27 Nov 2023 | Review commenced for Wakefield. |
16 Jan 2024 | Review commenced for Swindon. |
29 Jan 2024 | Reviews commenced for Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Thurrock. |
1 May 2024 | Removed North Hertfordshire and Worcester - now all-up 2024 etc. |
9 May 2024 | Review commenced for Milton Keynes. Final recommendations for Calderdale. |
20 May 2024 | Final recommendations for Coventry. |
9 Jul 2024 | Final recommendations for Gateshead and Walsall. |
28 Jul 2024 | Review commenced for Sandwell. |
3 Aug 2024 | Final recommendations for Sunderland. Review commenced for Colchester. |
31 Aug 2024 | Review commenced for Portsmouth. |
8 Sep 2024 | Review commenced for North East Lincolnshire. |
24 Sep 2024 | Review commenced for Southend-on-Sea. |
1 Dec 2024 | ECOs for Calderdale, Coventry, Gateshead and Sefton. |
15 Dec 2024 | Final recommendations for Barnsley, Bradford, Kirklees, South Tyneside, Thurrock and Wakefield. |
11 Jan 2025 | Remove 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 2025 | Final recommendations for Swindon. |
12 Feb 2025 | Reinstated Basildon, Basingstoke & Deane and Brentwood, which must have been accidentally deleted at some point in 2022/3. |
24 Feb 2025 | ECOs for Canterbury, Thurrock & Walsall. |
9 Mar 2025 | Final recommendations for Solihull. |
14 Apr 2025 | ECOs for Barnsley, Bradford and Wakefield. |
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