United Kingdom local elections, 2017

United Kingdom local elections, 2017

4 May 2017

35 councils in England All 32 Scottish councils All 22 Welsh councils 9 directly elected mayors in England   Leader Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Tim Farron Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Leader since 13 July 2016 12 September 2015 16 July 2015   Leader Nicola Sturgeon Paul Nuttall Leanne Wood Party SNP UKIP Plaid Cymru Leader since 14 November 2014 28 November 2016 16 March 2012

Map showing the previous control of councils up for election. Local Authorities marked purple are not up for election.

The 2017 United Kingdom local elections will be held on Thursday 4 May 2017. Local elections will be held across Great Britain, with elections to English, Scottish, and Welsh councils, as well as elections for the newly created English Regional Mayors.^[1]

England

Non-metropolitan county councils

All 27 county councils for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance will have all of their seats up for election. These will be first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.

‡ New electoral division boundaries

† Conservatives regained control of the council mid-term from Lab/UKIP/LD with Indy/Green support ^[3]

Unitary authorities

Seven single-tier unitary authorities will hold elections, with all of their seats up for election. These will be first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member wards.

Metropolitan boroughs

Whole metropolitan council

Mayoral elections

Map of the various English Mayoralties, all of which bar London are up for election.

Regional Mayors

Local Authority Mayors

Two elections for directly-elected local district mayors will be held. These Mayors act as council leaders in their local authorities.

Scotland

Wales

References

Elections and referendums in the United Kingdom
General elections	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 Next
Local elections	1889 1890 1892 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019
Referendums	1975 2011 2016
Elections and referendums in England (1264–1705) Scotland (Pre-1707) Great Britain (1708–1796) Ireland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

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English mayoral elections	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Greater Lincolnshire Greater Manchester Liverpool City Region North East Sheffield City Region Solent Tees Valley West of England West Midlands
English county councils	Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Worcestershire
English unitary authorities	Cornwall Durham Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Northumberland Shropshire Wiltshire
English metropolitan borough	Doncaster
Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray Comhairle nan Eilean Siar North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian
Welsh councils	Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham