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2025 United Kingdom local elections

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All 21 county councils 10 unitary authorities 1 metropolitan borough 4 directly elected combined authority mayors 2 directly elected single authority mayors Council of the Isles of Scilly City of London Corporation (on 19–20 March)
Leader Kemi Badenoch Keir Starmer Ed Davey Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Leader since 2 November 2024 4 April 2020 27 August 2020 Last election 1,448 seats 365 seats 293 seats Current seats 1,311 350 313   Leader Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay Nigel Farage Party Green Reform UK Leader since 1 October 2021 3 June 2024 Last election 59 seats 2 seats Current seats 64 12

The 2025 United Kingdom local elections will be held on 1 May 2025. All seats on all 21 county councils in England and ten unitary authorities in England will be up for election. They are expected to be the first local elections following the 2024 general election.

Two existing combined authority mayors and two existing single authority mayors will be up for election. In addition, the inaugural election for the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, who will chair Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority, is expected to take place on 1 May 2025, along with the inaugural election for the mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.

In addition, the Council of the Isles of Scilly will be elected.

The City of London Corporation will hold elections on 19–20 March.

Following the publication of the English Devolution White Paper on 16 December 2024, which set out the government's plans for local government reorganisation, some of the elections scheduled for May 2025 may be delayed by up to a year while reorganisation takes place. County councils have until 10 January 2025 to decide to cancel or postpone the elections.

England

County councils

There are 21 county councils in England. All of them hold whole-council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025.

Metropolitan boroughs

Unitary authorities

There are 62 unitary authorities, which are single-tier local authorities. Ten of them hold whole-council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025. Due to boundary changes several authorities will see a significant reduction in the number of councillors they elect: Buckinghamshire reduces from 147 to 97, Durham goes from 126 to 98 and West Northamptonshire will elect 76 instead of 93.

Combined authority mayors

Mayoralties covering a single local authority

City of London Corporation

Isles of Scilly

See also

• 2025 elections

Notes

1. ^ New electoral boundaries

References

1. Davey served as Acting Leader from 13 December 2019 to 27 August 2020 alongside the Party Presidents Baroness Brinton and Mark Pack, following Jo Swinson's election defeat in the 2019 general election. Davey was elected Leader in August 2020.

1. Stewart, Heather (27 August 2020). "'Wake up and smell the coffee': Ed Davey elected Lib Dem leader". The Guardian.
2. ^ "Election timetable in England". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
3. "Some local elections could be delayed by up to a year, says Angela Rayner". Sky News. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
4. Wardmote Book (PDF). City of London. 2022. pp. 2, 76. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
5. "Some local elections could be delayed by up to a year, says Angela Rayner". Sky News. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
6. "Counties given 'extraordinary' deadline to cancel elections". Local Government Chronicle. 17 December 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.

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Combined authority mayors	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Greater Lincolnshire Hull and East Yorkshire West of England
Single authority mayors	Doncaster North Tyneside
County councils	Cambridgeshire Derbyshire Devon East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Worcestershire
Metropolitan boroughs	Doncaster
Unitary authorities	Buckinghamshire Cornwall Durham Isle of Wight North Northamptonshire Northumberland Shropshire Thurrock West Northamptonshire Wiltshire
Other elections	City of London Isles of Scilly

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