20 Mar Council elections 2025

Posted at 14:59h in Local Elections by

Voting takes place on Thursday May 1 2025 in 23 councils in England. Only one council is expected to count overnight, and declare early on Friday May 2. The others will start counting on the morning of Friday May 2, with results expected from lunchtime until late in the evening. There are also six mayoral elections on Thursday May 1.

These are the councils with elections:

Unitary: 8

Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Durham, North Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, West Northamptonshire and Wiltshire

Metro: 1

Doncaster

Non-Met: 14

Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

The PA IDs for these council elections are now available.

The mayoral elections are:

1  Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

2  Doncaster

3  Greater Lincolnshire

4  Hull & East Yorkshire

5  North Tyneside

6  West of England

PA will run a series of tests, including “as live” tests, running up to election day.

There will be tests of all 23 council and six mayoral elections on Tuesday April 8 and Wednesday April 16, with further dates to be confirmed.