UPDATED: Rallings and Thrasher say there are 176 councils with elections. The Electoral Commission say there are 166. My original post below:
There are 166 councils with elections on May 6th. This includes: 32 London Boroughs, 36 Metropolitan Authorities, 20 Unitaries and 78 District Councils. In four of these councils there will also be simultaneous elections for the directly elected Mayor. Here is the full list. I’m going to do a follow up post on councils that might change political control, but in the meantime I would be interested in any comments on this.
32 London Boroughs (all-out) (M) – simultaneous Mayoral election
Barking and 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
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster
36 Metropolitan Boroughs (all by thirds)
Barnsley
Birmingham
Bolton
Bradford
Bury
Calderdale
Coventry
Doncaster
Dudley
Gateshead
Kirklees
Knowsley
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salford
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Solihull
South Tyneside
St Helens Stockport
Sunderland
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
20 Unitary Authorities – by thirds
Blackburn-with-Darwen
Bristol
Derby
Halton
Hartlepool Kingston upon Hull
Milton Keynes
North East Lincolnshire
Peterborough
Plymouth Portsmouth
Reading
Slough
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea Stoke-on-Trent
Swindon
Thurrock
Warrington
Wokingham
78 Districts – by thirds except as indicated
(M) – simultaneous Mayoral election. * – slight boundary changes.
Adur (one-half)
Amber Valley
Barrow-in-Furness
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane
Bassetlaw
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Carlisle
Castle Point
Cheltenham (one-half)
Cherwell
Chorley
Colchester
Craven
Crawley
Daventry
Eastleigh
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham (one-half)
Gloucester
Gosport (one-half)
Great Yarmouth
Harlow
Harrogate
Hart
Hastings (one-half)
Havant
Hertsmere
Huntingdonshire
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
Maidstone
Mole Valley
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North Hertfordshire
Norwich
Nuneaton & Bedworth (one-half)
Oxford (one-half)
Pendle
Preston
Purbeck
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
St Albans
South Cambridgeshire
South Lakeland
Stevenage
Stratford-on-Avon*
Stroud
Swale
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford (M)
Waveney
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Oxfordshire
Weymouth & Portland
Winchester
Woking
Worcester
Worthing
Wyre Forest
