United Kingdom local elections, 2017

United Kingdom local elections, 2017

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35 councils in England All 32 Scottish councils All 22 Welsh councils 8 directly elected mayors in England
Leader Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Tim Farron Party Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Leader since 13 July 2016 12 September 2015 16 July 2015   Leader Nicola Sturgeon Paul Nuttall Leanne Wood Party SNP UKIP Plaid Cymru Leader since 14 November 2014 28 November 2016 16 March 2012
Map showing the previous control of councils up for election. Local Authorities marked purple are not holding elections this year. Local Authorities marked grey are currently run by independent councillors. Local Authorities marked black are currently under no overall control (no single party has a majority of councillors).

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.

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

‡ New electoral division boundaries

† Conservatives regained control of the council mid-term from Lab/UKIP/LD with Indy/Green support

Seven single-tier unitary authorities will hold elections, with all of their seats up for election. These will be first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions or wards.

One metropolitan borough will have all of its seats up for election, after the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster moved to whole council elections in 2015. This will be a first-past-the-post election in a mixture of two-member and three-member wards.

Six elections for directly elected regional mayors will be held. These newly established positions will lead combined authorities set up by groups of local councils, as part of devolution deals giving the combined authorities additional powers and funding.

Other planned mayoralties have been postponed or cancelled. The election of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority mayor was postponed in January 2017 and, following legal action, will not happen in 2017 at all; while devolution deals were also scrapped for the North East Combined Authority, Norfolk and Suffolk and Greater Lincolnshire.

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