United Kingdom local elections, 2017

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United Kingdom local elections, 2017

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35 councils in England
All 32 Scottish councils
All 22 Welsh councils
12 directly elected mayors in England
  David Cameron Jeremy Corbyn April 2016.jpg Nicola Sturgeon
Leader David Cameron Jeremy Corbyn Nicola Sturgeon
Party Conservative Labour SNP
Leader since 6 December 2005 12 September 2015 14 November 2014

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Leader Nigel Farage Tim Farron Leanne Wood
Party UKIP Liberal Democrat Plaid Cymru
Leader since 5 November 2010 16 July 2015 16 March 2012

The 2017 United Kingdom local elections will be held on Thursday 4 May 2017. Local elections will be held across Great Britain, with elections to English, Scottish, and Welsh councils, as well as elections for the newly created English Regional Mayors.

England

Non-metropolitan county councils

All 27 county councils for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance had all of their seats up for election. These were first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.

Council Previous control Result Details
Buckinghamshire Conservative Details
Cambridgeshire No overall control (Conservative Minority) Details
Cumbria No overall control (Labour/Lib Dem Coalition) Details
Derbyshire Labour Details
Devon Conservative Details
Dorset Conservative Details
East Sussex No overall control (Conservative Minority) Details
Essex Conservative Details
Gloucestershire No overall control (Conservative Minority) Details
Hampshire Conservative Details
Hertfordshire Conservative Details
Kent Conservative Details
Lancashire No overall control (Labour Minority w/ Lib Dem Support) Details
Leicestershire Conservative Details
Lincolnshire No overall control (Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition) Details
Norfolk No overall control (Labour/UKIP/LibDem Minority w/Green & Ind Support) Details
North Yorkshire Conservative Details
Northamptonshire Conservative Details
Nottinghamshire Labour Details
Oxfordshire No overall control (Conservative Minority) Details
Somerset Conservative Details
Staffordshire Conservative Details
Suffolk Conservative Details
Surrey Conservative Details
Warwickshire No overall control[1] (Conservative Minority) Details
West Sussex Conservative Details
Worcestershire Conservative Details

‡ New electoral division boundaries

†The Conservatives won control of the council in the 2009 elections but lost their majority during its term.

Unitary authorities

Eight single-tier unitary authorities held elections. Seven of these had all of their seats up for election, whilst one, Bristol, elected a third of its seats. These are first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member wards.

Council Proportion up
for election
Previous control Result Details
Bristol 1/3 No overall control Details
Cornwall All No overall control[2] (Lib Dem/Independent Coalition) Details
Durham All Labour Details
Isle of Wight All No overall control (Island Independents Minority) Details
Isles of Scilly All Independent Details
Northumberland All No overall control (Labour Minority) Details
Shropshire All Conservative Details
Wiltshire All Conservative Details

Mayoral elections

Regional Mayors

Local Authority Interim Mayor/Leader Result Details
East Anglia Details
Greater Lincolnshire Details
Greater Manchester

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Tony Lloyd (Labour) Details
Liverpool City Region

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Joe Anderson (Labour) Details
North East

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Simon Henig (Labour) Details
Sheffield City Region

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Stephen Houghton (Labour) Details
Solent Details
Tees Valley

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Sue Jeffrey (Labour) Details
West of England Details
West Midlands

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Bob Sleigh (Conservative) Details

Local Authority Mayors

Two elections for directly-elected local district mayors will be held. These Mayors act as council leaders in their local authorities.

Local Authority Incumbent Mayor Result Details
Doncaster

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Ros Jones (Labour) Details
North Tyneside

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Norma Redfearn (Labour) Details

Scotland

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Council Previous control Result Details
Aberdeen City No overall control Details
Aberdeenshire No overall control Details
Angus SNP Details
Argyll and Bute No overall control Details
Clackmannanshire No overall control Details
Dumfries and Galloway No overall control Details
Dundee City SNP Details
East Ayrshire No overall control Details
East Dunbartonshire No overall control Details
East Lothian No overall control Details
East Renfrewshire No overall control Details
City of Edinburgh No overall control Details
Falkirk No overall control Details
Fife No overall control Details
Glasgow City Labour Details
Highland No overall control Details
Inverclyde No overall control Details
Midlothian No overall control Details
Moray No overall control Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar Independent Details
North Ayrshire No overall control Details
North Lanarkshire Labour Details
Orkney Independent Details
Perth and Kinross No overall control Details
Renfrewshire Labour Details
Scottish Borders No overall control Details
Shetland Independent Details
South Ayrshire No overall control Details
South Lanarkshire No overall control Details
Stirling No overall control Details
West Dunbartonshire Labour Details
West Lothian No overall control Details

Wales

Council Previous control Result Details
Isle of Anglesey No overall control Details
Blaenau Gwent Labour Details
Bridgend Labour Details
Caerphilly Labour Details
Cardiff Labour Details
Carmarthenshire No overall control Details
Ceredigion No overall control Details
Conwy No overall control Details
Denbighshire No overall control Details
Flintshire No overall control Details
Gwynedd No overall control Details
Merthyr Tydfil Labour Details
Monmouthshire No overall control Details
Neath Port Talbot Labour Details
Newport Labour Details
Pembrokeshire Independent Details
Powys Independent Details
Rhondda Cynon Taff Labour Details
Swansea Labour Details
Torfaen Labour Details
Vale of Glamorgan No overall control Details
Wrexham No overall control Details

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