Here’s what you need to know:
Local and mayoral elections will take place across England on May 1
With the local elections just over two weeks away, it’s important that anyone living in an area where something is at stake takes advantage of their right to vote.
The polling booths will open in 23 of England’s 317 local authorities on Thursday May 1, all falling under three different categories – county, unitary and metropolitan.
A county council is part of a two-tier local government system, taking care of things that affect the whole county like education, transport and social care.
A unitary authority is a one-tier local government, where the services of a county council and the other smaller councils listed above are combined.
A metropolitan district has a council that oversees all services, similar to a unitary authority – but has a mayor with a role similar to that of local councils.
All in all, people will be voting for 1,631 council seats, including six directly elected mayors.
Fourteen of the local authorities opening its polling booths are county councils. These include:
- Cambridgeshire
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Gloucestershire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Staffordshire
- Warwickshire
- Worcestershire
Eight are unitary authorities. These are:
- Buckinghamshire
- Cornwall
- Durham
- North Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Shropshire
- West Northamptonshire
- Wiltshire
The sole metropolitan district holding a local election is Doncaster.
The Isle of Scilly, which has its own unique government structure, is also holding a local election of its own.
Some elections have been delayed to 2026 to allow for reorganisation of local government structure.
These include the following councils:
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
- Thurrock
- Surrey
- Essex
- East and West Sussex
- Hampshire
- Isle of Wight
The six mayoral elections also taking place on May 1 include a mix of combined authority mayors and metropolitan borough mayors.
The list of combined authority mayoral elections include:
- Greater Lincolnshire
- Hull & East Yorkshire
- Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
- West of England
There are just two metropolitan borough mayoral elections taking place:
There will be no elections held in Greater Manchester in 2025.
There have never been any plans for voters to go to the polls in any of the 10 boroughs which make up the city region in 2025.
After Andy Burnham was elected last May, the next Greater Manchester mayoral run-off is not until 2028.
Published: 2025-04-16 05:19:58 | Author: [email protected] (Ryan Price) | Source: MEN – News
Link: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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