2026 United Kingdom local elections

2026 United Kingdom local elections
7 May 2026
  • At least 3,373 council seats
  • At least 72 unitary, metropolitan, district and London councils in England
  • At least 12 directly elected mayors in England
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Keir Starmer Kemi Badenoch Ed Davey
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 4 April 2020 2 November 2024 27 August 2020
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Green
Leader Nigel Farage TBD
Party Reform UK Green
Leader since 3 June 2024 2 September 2025

The 2026 United Kingdom local elections will take place on Thursday 7 May 2026. These include elections for all London borough councils. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2022. On the same day, there will also be elections to the Scottish Parliament (129 seats) and Senedd (Welsh Parliament) (96 seats).

Some of these elections were postponed from the previous year while reorganisation takes place. The government announced that elections to nine councils would not take place in 2025 to allow restructuring to take place, with elections to reformed or newly created replacement authorities taking place in 2026.

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