Local elections 2025: full mayoral and council results for England

Latest results

0 of 23 councils declared
The first results are expected after midnight.

Polling has taken place in councils across England, and there have been six mayoral elections. Voters also went to the polls in a parliamentary byelection in Runcorn and Helsby.

Westminster byelection

Regional and city mayors

There are four regional mayoralties being contested, two held by Labour, in West of England and in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and two new offices in Greater Lincolnshire and in Hull and East Yorkshire.

Councillor change

The large number in bold represents the change in councillors in this election. The smaller number shows the total council seats won.
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Lab
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Lib Dem
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Green
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Reform
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Other
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Council control change

NOC = No overall control
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Lab
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Lib Dem
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Loss 0
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Green
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Loss 0
Hold 0
Reform
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NOC/Other
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How the election works

On 1 May many county councils in England are up for election. In areas with two tiers of local government, the county councils are the upper tier, with responsibility for big-budget areas such as education and social care. Some unitary authorities are also up for election.


In addition there are elections for mayors of combined authorities, including some new authorities, and two directly elected single-authority mayors.

Councils of interest

These are some of the councils that show the key trends in the elections. The charts show the percentage of seats held in each council, by party.

Where parties gained councillors

Regions in white are up for election. The size of the circle indicates the seats gained as a percentage of the number that were up for election.

Labour

Labour had relatively little at stake in Keir Starmer's first major electoral test since becoming prime minister, as they were going into the election defending less than half the number of council seats up for election compared with the Conservatives.

Conservative

Many of these council areas have been deeply Conservative for years, so expectations of significant Conservative losses were high.

Lib Dem

The Lib Dems could make substantial gains if they can capitalise on anti-Conservative feeling in the centre-right, especially in areas such as Oxfordshire and Kent.

Green

These are not traditionally strong Green areas for the most part, but university cities such as Canterbury and Exeter will be voting as part of their respective counties.

Independents

Independent candidates made significant gains in 2024, largely at the expense of Labour, both in the local elections and general elections.

Reform

Reform were called the 'wild card' going into the election, with the party having high hopes in regions like Kent and Lincolnshire.

All council results

*Councils with ward boundary changes and/or seat number changes
The first results are expected after midnight.

About these results

These results are provided by the Press Association media newswire (PA). Numbers for change in seats are calculated against the state of the council just before this election. Other organisations calculate using the previous election, and this can lead to discrepancies.

They may also announce individual ward councillor results as they become known, while PA release results for each council only when its full count is complete. PA collates results only for elections that were due in this electoral cycle, meaning there may be council byelection results in other parts of the country that are not included. There are frequent changes in ward boundaries, sometimes accompanied by changes in the number of councillors overall.