Voters will take to the polls across England and Northern Ireland for the local elections this spring.
Polling stations in England will open on Thursday, May 4 and the results will be revealed on Friday, May 5. Meanwhile locals in Northern Ireland will cast their votes two weeks later, on Thursday May 18.
A majority of the seats up for election this year were last contested in May 2019. In England, 146 local authorities will be electing their full council, while 83 will have a third of their seats up for grabs. Four areas will also be holding mayoral elections.
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Local councillors usually serve a four-year term. Some councils elect all of their councillors at the same time every four years, while other councils elect just a portion of their councillors each time and hold elections more regularly.
Below, you can find a full list of all the local authorities holding elections in May. Here are all the elections coming up in England on May 5 and Northern Ireland on May 18.
Metropolitan councils in England holding elections on May 4:
A third of the council up for election unless stated otherwise
- Bolton (full council)
- Barnsley
- Bradford
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Coventry
- Dudley
- Gateshead
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Liverpool (full council)
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Oldham (full council)
- Stockport (full council)
- Rochdale
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Solihull
- South Tyneside
- Sunderland
- Tameside (full council)
- Trafford (full council)
- Wigan(full council)
- Wirral (full council)
- Wolverhampton (full council)
- Wakefield
- Walsall
Unitary councils in England holding elections on May 4:
Whole council to be elected unless stated otherwise
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford (Mayoral election also taking place)
- Blackburn with Darwen (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Blackpool
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove
- Central Bedfordshire
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Darlington
- Derby
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Halton (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Hartlepool (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Hull (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Herefordshire
- Leicester (Mayoral election also taking place)
- Luton
- Medway
- Middlesbrough (Mayoral election also taking place)
- Milton Keynes (a third of councillors to be elected)
- North East Lincolnshire (a third of councillors to be elected)
- North Lincolnshire
- North Somerset
- Nottingham
- Peterborough (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Plymouth (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Portsmouth (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Reading (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Rutland
- Slough
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Swindon (a third of councillors to be elected)
- South Gloucestershire
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Telford and Wrekin
- Torbay
- Thurrock (a third of councillors to be elected)
- West Berkshire
- Windsor & Maidenhead
- Wokingham (a third of councillors to be elected)
- York
District councils in England holding elections on May 4:
Whole council to be elected unless stated otherwise
- Amber Valley
- Arun
- Ashfield
- Ashford
- Babergh
- Basildon (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Basingstoke and Deane (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Bassetlaw
- Blaby
- Bolsover
- Boston
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brentwood (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Broadland
- Bromsgrove
- Broxbourne (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Broxtowe
- Burnley (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Cambridge (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Cannock Chase (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Canterbury
- Castle Point (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Charnwood
- Chelmsford
- Cherwell (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Chorley (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Colchester (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Cotswold
- Crawley (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Dacorum
- Dartford
- Derbyshire Dales
- Dover
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Devon
- East Hampshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Lindsey
- East Staffordshire
- East Suffolk
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Elmbridge (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Epping Forest (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Epsom and Ewell
- Erewash
- Exeter (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Fenland
- Folkestone & Hythe
- Forest of Dean
- Fylde
- Gedling
- Gravesham
- Great Yarmouth
- Guildford
- Harborough
- Harlow (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Hart (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Havant (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Hertsmere
- High Peak
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Horsham
- Hyndburn (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Ipswich (a third of councillors to be elected)
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Lancaster
- Lewes
- Lichfield
- Lincoln (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Maidstone (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Maldon
- Malvern Hills
- Mansfield (Mayoral election also taking place)
- Melton
- Mid Devon
- Mid Suffolk
- Mid Sussex
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Newark and Sherwood
- North Devon
- North East Derbyshire
- North Hertfordshire (a third of councillors to be elected)
- North Kesteven
- North Norfolk
- North Warwickshire
- North West Leicestershire
- Norwich (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Oadby and Wigston
- Pendle (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Preston (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Redditch (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Reigate and Banstead (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Ribble Valley
- Rochford (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Rossendale (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Rother
- Rugby (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Runnymede (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Rushcliffe
- Rushmoor (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Sevenoaks
- South Derbyshire
- South Hams
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- South Norfolk
- South Oxfordshire
- South Ribble
- South Staffordshire
- Spelthorne
- St Albans (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Stafford
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stevenage (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Tamworth (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Tandridge (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Teignbridge
- Tendring
- Test Valley
- Tewkesbury
- Thanet
- Three Rivers (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Torridge
- Tunbridge Wells (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Uttlesford
- Vale of White Horse
- Warwick
- Watford (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Welwyn Hatfield (a third of councillors to be elected)
- West Devon
- West Lancashire
- West Lindsey
- West Oxfordshire (a third of councillors to be elected)
- West Suffolk
- Winchester (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Woking (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Worcester (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Worthing (a third of councillors to be elected)
- Wychavon
- Wyre
- Wyre Forest
Councils holding local elections in Northern Ireland holding elections on May 18:
- Belfast
- Ards & North Down
- Antrim & Newtownabbey
- Lisburn & Castlereagh
- Newry, Mourne & Down
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Mid & East Antrim
- Causeway Coast & Glens
- Mid Ulster
- Derry City & Strabane
- Fermanagh & Omagh
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