23 Apr Elections May 2026
The Press Association will provide a data service including nominations data, results rushes, detailed results and statistics for all the elections taking place in May 2026. They comprise the Scottish Parliament, with 129 MSPs elected in 73 first-past-the-past constituencies, and eight regional seats; and the Welsh Parliament election, with 96 members elected from 16 constituencies under a new voting system. These are the first Scottish and Welsh Parliament elections since 2021. There are also elections for 136 councils in England, and for six mayorals in England.
Polling day is May 7.
The Press Association will be running full tests of all the elections taking place on May 7 on Friday May 1, starting at around 11am and lasting around four hours. There will be limited tests on Wednesday April 29, Thursday April 30 and Tuesday May 5, starting around 6.10pm.
Estimated council declaration times are here, with the caveats that there can be recounts and other delays to declarations:
Declaration Times — Chronological Order
Friday — Early hours (12am–6.59am)
- Broxbourne 1am
- Halton 1am
- Harlow 1.30am
- North East Lincolnshire 2am
- Chorley 2am
- Hart 2am
- Hartlepool 2am
- Hull 2am
- Lincoln 2am
- Rochford 2am
- Redditch 1.45am
- Wigan 2.30am
- Tamworth 2.30am
- Basildon 3am
- Bolton 3am
- Brentwood 3am
- Exeter 3am
- Oxford 3am
- Peterborough 3am
- Portsmouth 3am
- Reading 3am
- Salford 3am
- Southend-on-Sea 3am
- Tameside 3am
- Colchester 3.30am
- Dudley 3.30am
- Westminster 3.30am
- Fareham 4am
- Gosport 4am
- Hampshire 4am
- Havant 4am
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 4am
- Plymouth 4am
- Wandsworth 4am
- Ealing 4.30am
- Sutton 4.30am
- Bexley 5am
- Eastleigh 5am
- Kensington & Chelsea 5am
- Merton 5am
- Oldham 5am
- Richmond-upon-Thames 5am
- Stockport 5am
- Hammersmith & Fulham 5.30am
- Havering 6am
- Southampton 6.30am
Friday — Late morning (12pm–12.59pm)
- Blackburn 12.30pm
- Manchester 12.30pm
Friday — Early afternoon (1pm–2.59pm)
- Burnley 1pm
- North Tyneside 1.45pm
- Cheltenham 2pm
- Hyndburn 2pm
- Rochdale 2pm
- Sheffield 2pm
- Welwyn Hatfield 2pm
- Huntingdonshire 2.30pm
- Norwich 2.30pm
- Pendle 2.30pm
- Preston 2.30pm
- St Helens 2.30pm
- West Oxfordshire 2.30pm
Friday — Mid/late afternoon (3pm–4.59pm)
- Cannock Chase 3pm
- Epping Forest 3pm
- Isle of Wight 3pm
- Islington 3pm
- Knowsley 3pm
- Leeds 3pm
- Rushmoor 3pm
- Solihull 3pm
- Three Rivers 3pm
- Thurrock 3pm
- Waltham Forest 3pm
- Nuneaton & Bedworth 3.30pm
- Basingstoke & Deane 4pm
- Crawley 4pm
- Gateshead 4pm
- Greenwich 4pm
- Hillingdon 4pm
- Ipswich 4pm
- Rugby 4pm
- South Cambridgeshire 4pm
- Suffolk 4pm
- Sunderland 4pm
- Trafford 4pm
- Tunbridge Wells 4pm
- West Lancashire 4pm
- West Sussex 4pm
- Wolverhampton 4pm
- Barnsley 4.30pm
- Bury 4.30pm
- Harrow 4.30pm
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4.45pm
Friday — Late afternoon/evening (5pm–7pm+)
- Barking & Dagenham 5pm
- Barnet 5pm
- Brent 5pm
- Cambridge 5pm
- Coventry 5pm
- Enfield 5pm
- Essex 5pm
- Hackney 5pm
- Milton Keynes 5pm
- Redbridge 5pm
- Sandwell 5pm
- St Albans 5pm
- Stevenage 5pm
- Walsall 5pm
- Watford 5pm
- Wokingham 5pm
- Haringey 5.30pm
- Hounslow 5.30am
- Norfolk 5.30pm
- Sefton 5.30pm
- South Tyneside 5.30pm
- Adur 6pm
- Birmingham 6pm
- Camden 6pm
- East Surrey 6pm
- East Sussex 6pm
- Hastings 6pm
- Kingston-upon-Thames 6pm
- Kirklees 6pm
- Lambeth 6pm
- Newham 6pm
- Southwark 6pm
- Swindon 6pm
- Wakefield 6pm
- West Surrey 6pm
- Winchester 6pm
- Worthing 6pm
- Bromley 7pm
- Cherwell 7pm
- Calderdale 8.30pm
Saturday May 9
- Bradford 4pm
- Croydon 4pm
- Lewisham 4pm
- Tower Hamlets 6pm
The six mayoral elections are all being counted on Friday May 8:
- Hackney 1pm
- Newham 1pm
- Watford 2pm
- Lewisham 3pm
- Croydon 4pm
- Tower Hamlets – Friday evening