Elections are taking place across Great Britain tomorrow, with mayoralties and council seats up for grabs in parts of England, and elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. All these ballots will be held on Thursday, May 7, with millions of Britons heading out to cast their votes.
Elections are being held across 136 local authorities, including some of the country's biggest cities and every borough in London. The votes are seen by some as something of a referendum on the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's premiership, with the party at risk of losing ground to the Greens in the capital, and Reform beyond the M25, polling suggests.
Are there local elections in my area?Polling stations will open from 7am, with counting typically starting soon after polls close at 10pm on Thursday. But unlike a UK general election, where most results arrive overnight, local election counts are often staggered.
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Many English council results are expected to be called during the early hours of Friday morning and into the afternoon, with some authorities not declaring until later in the day.
Results from Scotland and Wales, where proportional systems can make counting more complicated, may take longer, with key announcements likely spread across Friday and, in some cases, into Saturday.
Because thousands of individual seats are being contested-around 2,500 in England alone-the overall national picture will emerge gradually.
You can find the full list of council seats up for grabs below.
County councils
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Hampshire
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
- West Sussex
Metropolitan boroughs
- Barnsley
- Birmingham
- Bolton
- Bradford
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Coventry
- Dudley
- Gateshead
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Solihull
- South Tyneside
- St Helens
- Stockport
- Sunderland
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Wigan
- Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities
- Blackburn with Darwen
- East Surrey
- Halton
- Hartlepool
- Hull
- Isle of Wight
- Milton Keynes
- North East Lincolnshire
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Swindon
- Thurrock
- West Surrey
- Wokingham
District councils
- Adur
- Basildon
- Basingstoke & Deane
- Brentwood
- Broxbourne
- Burnley
- Cambridge
- Cannock Chase
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Chorley
- Colchester
- Crawley
- Eastleigh
- Epping Forest
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Gosport
- Harlow
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Huntingdonshire
- Hyndburn
- Ipswich
- Lincoln
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Norwich
- Nuneaton & Bedworth
- Oxford
- Pendle
- Preston
- Redditch
- Rochford
- Rugby
- Rushmoor
- South Cambridgeshire
- St Albans
- Stevenage
- Tamworth
- Three Rivers
- Tunbridge Wells
- Watford
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Lancashire
- West Oxfordshire
- Winchester
- Worthing
London boroughs
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich (Royal Borough)
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Mayoral
- Croydon
- Hackney
- Lewisham
- Newham
- Tower Hamlets
- Watford
Click here to find your nearest polling station.
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