Following the postponement of the local elections in May 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the local elections scheduled for the first Thursday in May 2021 will be larger than usual. This page gives a breakdown of the local authorities that will be going to the ballot box.
Devolved Parliaments and Assemblies
- Scottish Parliament
- Welsh Assembly
- London Assembly
Police and Crime Commissioners
All of the PCC’s in the UK were scheduled to be up for election in 2020. The polls will take place in 2021.
Combined Authority Mayors
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool
- London
- Tees Valley
- West Midlands
- West of England
- West Yorkshire
Single Authority Mayors
- Bristol
- Doncaster
- Liverpool
- North Tyneside
- Salford
New Unitary Councils
- Buckinghamshire (created by the merger of Buckinghamshire County with the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Buckinghamshire and Wycombe)
- North Northamptonshire (created by the merger of Northamptonshire County with the districts of Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering and Wellingborough)
- West Northamptonshire (created by the merger of Northamptonshire County with the districts of Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire)
Whole Council – Metropolitan Boroughs
- Doncaster
- Rotherham
- Salford
Whole Council – Urban Unitary
- Bristol
- Halton
- Hartlepool
- Warrington
Whole Council – Rural Unitary
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Isle of Wight
- Northumberland
- Shropshire
- Wiltshire
Whole Council – County
- Cambridgeshire
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Warwickshire
- West Sussex
- Worcestershire
Whole Council – District
- Chorley
- Gloucester
- Stroud
Half of Council – District
- Adur
- Cheltenham
- Fareham
- Gosport
- Hastings
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Oxford
One Third of Council – Metropolitan Boroughs
- Greater Manchester Councils – Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan
- Merseyside Councils – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral
- South Yorkshire Councils – Barnsley and Sheffield
- Tyne and Wear Councils – Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland
- West Midlands Councils – Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton
- West Yorkshire Councils – Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield
One Third of Council – Unitary
- Blackburn-with-Darwen
- Derby
- Hull
- Milton Keynes
- North East Lincolnshire
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Plymouth
- Reading
- Slough
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Swindon
- Thurrock
- Wokingham
One Third of Council – District
- East Midlands Councils – Amber Valley and Lincoln
- East of England Councils – Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich
- Essex Councils – Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow and Rochford
- Exeter
- Hampshire Councils – Basingstoke and Deane, Eastleigh, Hart, Havant, Rushmoor and Winchester
- Hertfordshire Councils – Broxbourne, North Hertfordshire, Stevenage, St Albans, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield
- Kent Councils – Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
- Lancashire Councils – Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Preston, Rossendale and West Lancashire
- Oxfordshire Councils – Cherwell and West Oxfordshire
- Rugby
- Surrey Councils – Elmbridge, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Tandridge and Woking
- Staffordshire Councils – Cannock Chase and Tamworth
- West Sussex Councils – Crawley and Worthing
- Worcestershire Councils – Redditch, Worcester and Wyre Forest
Other Elections
The local elections for the Isles of Scilly will also take place.
Elections Count 