United Kingdom local elections, 2018

United Kingdom local elections, 2018

3 May 2018
150 councils and 6 directly-elected mayors
Leader Jeremy Corbyn Theresa May Party Labour Conservative Leader since 12 September 2015 13 July 2016 Last election 2,043 seats 78 councils 1,298 seats 39 councils   Leader Vince Cable Gerard Batten Party Liberal Democrat UKIP Leader since 20 July 2017 17 February 2018 Last election 408 seats 6 councils 153 seats 0 councils
Map showing results of UK local elections, 2014. Areas in white will not hold an election, those in light grey are other parts of the United Kingdom, whilst those in dark grey are not part of the United Kingdom.      Conservative     Labour      Liberal Democrats     No overall control

Council elections in England are scheduled to be held on Thursday 3 May 2018. Local elections will be held within England, with elections to all 32 London boroughs, 34 metropolitan boroughs, 67 district and borough councils and 17 unitary authorities There will also be direct elections for the Mayoralties of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Watford.

With the exception of those areas that have had boundary changes, the seats up for election were last contested in the 2014 local elections.

A parliamentary by-election in West Tyrone has been scheduled for the same day 

London boroughs 

Main article: London local elections, 2018

All seats in the 32 London borough councils will be up for election.

Council	Previous control		Result
Barking and Dagenham		Labour
Barnet		Conservative
Bexley		Conservative
Brent		Labour
Bromley		Conservative
Camden		Labour
Croydon		Labour
Ealing		Labour
Enfield		Labour
Greenwich		Labour
Hackney		Labour
Hammersmith and Fulham		Labour
Haringey		Labour
Harrow		Labour
Havering		No overall control
Hillingdon		Conservative
Hounslow		Labour
Islington		Labour
Kensington and Chelsea		Conservative
Kingston upon Thames		Conservative
Lambeth		Labour
Lewisham		Labour
Merton		Labour
Newham		Labour
Redbridge		Labour
Richmond upon Thames		Conservative
Southwark		Labour
Sutton		Liberal Democrat
Tower Hamlets		Labour[8]
Waltham Forest		Labour
Wandsworth		Conservative
Westminster		Conservative

Metropolitan Boroughs 

Whole council 

4 metropolitan boroughs have all of their seats up for election following boundary changes.

Council	Previous control		Result
Birmingham		Labour
Leeds		Labour
Manchester		Labour
Newcastle upon Tyne		Labour

One-third of council 

One third of the seats in 30 metropolitan boroughs are up for election:

Council	Previous control		Result
Barnsley		Labour
Bolton		Labour
Bradford		Labour
Bury		Labour
Calderdale		No overall control
Coventry		Labour
Dudley		No overall control
Gateshead		Labour
Kirklees		No overall control
Knowsley		Labour
Liverpool		Labour
North Tyneside		Labour
Oldham		Labour
Rochdale		Labour
St Helens		Labour
Salford		Labour
Sandwell		Labour
Sefton		Labour
Sheffield		Labour
Solihull		Conservative
South Tyneside		Labour
Stockport		No overall control
Sunderland		Labour
Tameside		Labour
Trafford		Conservative
Wakefield		Labour
Walsall		No overall control
Wigan		Labour
Wirral		Labour
Wolverhampton		Labour

Unitary authorities 

Whole council 

One unitary authority has all of its seats up for election following boundary changes.

Council	Previous control		Result
Kingston upon Hull		Labour

Third of council 

One third of the council seats are up for election in 16 unitary authorities.

Council	Previous control		Result
Blackburn with Darwen		Labour
Derby		Labour
Halton		Labour
Hartlepool		Labour
Milton Keynes		No overall control
North East Lincolnshire		No overall control
Peterborough		No overall control
Plymouth		No overall control
Portsmouth		No overall control
Reading		Labour
Slough		Labour
Southampton		Labour
Southend-on-Sea		No overall control
Swindon		Conservative
Thurrock		No overall control
Wokingham		Conservative

Non-metropolitan districts 

Whole council 

Seven non-metropolitan districts have all of their seats up for election.

Council	Previous control		Result
Eastleigh		Liberal Democrat
Harrogate		Conservative
Hastings		Labour
Huntingdonshire		Conservative
Newcastle-under-Lyme		Labour
South Cambridgeshire		Conservative
South Lakeland		Liberal Democrat

Half of council 

Six non-metropolitan districts have half of their seats up for election.

Council	Previous control		Result
Adur		Conservative
Cheltenham		Liberal Democrat
Fareham		Conservative
Gosport		Conservative
Nuneaton and Bedworth		Labour
Oxford		Labour

Third of council 

54 district councils have one third of their seats up for election. Weymouth and Portland originally had elections scheduled for 2018, but the elections were postponed indefinitely following a decision to merge the council into a unitary Dorset Council from 2019 onwards.^[9][10]

Council	Previous control		Result
Amber Valley		Conservative
Basildon		No overall control
Basingstoke and Deane		No overall control
Brentwood		No overall control
Broxbourne		Conservative
Burnley		Labour
Cambridge		Labour
Cannock Chase		Labour
Carlisle		Labour
Castle Point		No overall control
Cherwell		Conservative
Chorley		Labour
Colchester		No overall control
Craven		Conservative
Crawley		Labour
Daventry		Conservative
Elmbridge		Conservative
Epping Forest		Conservative
Exeter		Labour
Great Yarmouth		No overall control
Harlow		Labour
Hart		No overall control
Havant		Conservative
Hyndburn		Labour
Ipswich		Labour
Lincoln		Labour
Maidstone		No overall control
Mole Valley		No overall control
North Hertfordshire		Conservative
Norwich		Labour
Pendle		No overall control
Preston		Labour
Redditch		Labour
Reigate and Banstead		Conservative
Rochford		Conservative
Rossendale		Labour
Rugby		Conservative
Runnymede		Conservative
Rushmoor		Conservative
St Albans		Conservative
Stevenage		Labour
Tamworth		Conservative
Tandridge		Conservative
Three Rivers		Liberal Democrat
Tunbridge Wells		Conservative
Watford		Liberal Democrat
Welwyn Hatfield		Conservative
West Lancashire		Labour
West Oxfordshire		Conservative
Winchester		Conservative
Woking		Conservative
Worcester		No overall control
Worthing		Conservative
Wyre Forest		No overall control

Mayoral elections 

There are five local authority mayoral elections and one metropolitan mayoral election.

Combined authorities 

Combined Authority	New mayor
South Yorkshire (Sheffield City Region)

Local authorities 

Council	Previous mayor		New mayor
Hackney		Philip Glanville (Labour)
Lewisham		Sir Steve Bullock (Labour)
Newham		Sir Robin Wales (Labour)
Tower Hamlets		John Biggs (Labour)
Watford		Dorothy Thornhill (Liberal Democrat)