25 Feb May 2022 polls: councils list
Elections take place on May 5 2022 at 200 councils in England, Scotland and Wales including:
- All 32 Scottish authorities
- All 22 Welsh authorities
- All 32 London boroughs
- Another 114 English authorities
See separate Council elections advisory for details of nominations and results coverage.
See note below this list for information on which councils have elections for all or a third of their seats this time.
Scotland: 32
Metro: 35
Barnsley
Bolton
Bradford
Bury
Calderdale
Coventry
Doncaster
Dudley
Gateshead
Kirklees
Knowsley
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
North Tyneside
Oldham
Rochdale
Rotherham
St Helens
Salford
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Solihull
South Tyneside
Stockport
Sunderland
Tameside
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Non-Met: 59
Adur
Amber Valley
Basildon
Basingstoke & Deane
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Burnley
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Castle Point
Cheltenham
Cherwell
Chorley
Colchester
Crawley
Eastleigh
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Exeter
Fareham
Gloucester
Gosport
Harlow
Hart
Hastings
Havant
Hyndburn
Ipswich
Lincoln
Maidstone
Mole Valley
North Hertfordshire
Norwich
Nuneaton & Bedworth
Oxford
Pendle
Preston
Redditch
Reigate & Banstead
Rochford
Rossendale
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
St Albans
Stevenage
Stroud
Tamworth
Tandridge
Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells
Watford
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Oxfordshire
Winchester
Woking
Worcester
Worthing
County council: 21
Cambridgeshire
Derbyshire
Devon
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Hertfordshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Norfolk
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Warwickshire
West Sussex
Worcestershire
Seats up
English local authority elections take place on four-year cycles. Some councils have a single poll once every four years when all seats are up for election, others have polls in three of the four years with a third of the seats up each time and a few have polls for half the seats every two years. Sometimes all-up elections take place following boundary changes or council mergers.
Details of which councils have elections that are all-up, by thirds or by halves will be provided here in due course.