Is there a local election where you live in the UK in 2025?

In just a few weeks, Sir Keir Starmer will face his biggest electoral test since Labour won a landslide victory in last July’s General Election - as millions of voters head to the polls at the start of May.

On May 1, 2025, people will head to their polling stations to vote for 1,631 council seats, 23 county, unitary and metropolitan councils plus six mayors.

Voting in the 2025 local elections will cover local government elections, parish council elections, local authority mayoral elections, combined authority mayoral elections and combined county authority mayoral elections.

Not every UK resident will have a local election to attend, however. Elections will take place across 14 county councils: Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

The remaining are unitary authorities of: Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Durham, North Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, West Northamptonshire and Wiltshire, plus Doncaster Metropolitan Council.

Here is a guide to the local elections in May, with an interactive map, full list of the scheduled polls and details of the votes to watch out for.

On top of the council seats, there are six mayoral elections including four combined authority mayors in Greater Lincolnshire, Hull and East Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, West of England, plus two Metropolitan Borough Mayors in Doncaster and North Tyneside.

Plus, voters living in the constituency of Runcorn and Helsby, in Cheshire, will choose a new MP after former MP Mike Amesbury stood down after being given a prison sentence for assaulting a constituent.

The 2025 local elections