| Election Name: | 2025 United Kingdom local elections |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2024 United Kingdom local elections |
| Previous Year: | 2024 |
| Next Election: | 2026 United Kingdom local elections |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Election Date: | 1 May 2025 |
| 4Blank: | Councillors ± |
| 5Blank: | Councils |
| 6Blank: | Councils ± |
| Leader1: | Keir Starmer |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Leader Since1: | 4 April 2020 |
| Leader2: | Ed Davey |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Leader4: | TBD |
| Party4: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Leader Since4: | TBD |
| 1Data4: | 25% |
| Leader5: | Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay |
| Party5: | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Leader Since5: | 1 October 2021 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
The 2025 United Kingdom local elections will be held on 1 May 2025.[1] All seats on all 21 county councils in England and 9 unitary authorities in England will be up for election. They will be the first local elections following the 2024 general election.
Two existing combined authority mayors and two existing single authority mayors will be up for election. In addition, the inaugural election for the Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, who will chair Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority GLCCA, is expected to take place on 1 May 2025, along with the inaugural election for the Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.
In addition, the Council of the Isles of Scilly in England and the City of London Corporation will be elected.
There are 21 county councils in England. All of them hold whole council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025.
| Council | Seats | Party control | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Previous | Result | |||||
| Cambridgeshire | 61 | Details | ||||
| Derbyshire | 64 | Details | ||||
| Devon | 60 | Details | ||||
| East Sussex | 50 | Details | ||||
| Essex | 75 | Details | ||||
| Gloucestershire | 53 | Details | ||||
| Hampshire | 78 | Details | ||||
| Hertfordshire | 78 | Details | ||||
| Kent | 81 | Details | ||||
| Lancashire | 84 | Details | ||||
| Leicestershire | 55 | Details | ||||
| Lincolnshire | 70 | Details | ||||
| Norfolk | 43 | Details | ||||
| Nottinghamshire | 66 | Details | ||||
| Oxfordshire | 63 | Details | ||||
| Staffordshire | 62 | Details | ||||
| Suffolk | 75 | Details | ||||
| Surrey | 81 | Details | ||||
| Warwickshire | 57 | Details | ||||
| West Sussex | 70 | Details | ||||
| Worcestershire | 57 | Details | ||||
There are sixty-two unitary authorities, which are single-tier local authorities. 9 of them hold whole council elections on a four-year cycle that includes 2025.
| Council | Seats | Party control | Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Previous | Result | |||||
| Buckinghamshire | 147 | Details | ||||
| Cornwall | 84 | Details | ||||
| County Durham | 126 | Details | ||||
| Isle of Wight | 39 | Details | ||||
| North Northamptonshire | 78 | Details | ||||
| Northumberland | 67 | Details | ||||
| Shropshire | 74 | Details | ||||
| West Northamptonshire | 93 | Details | ||||
| Wiltshire | 98 | Details | ||||
| Combined authority | Mayor Before | Mayor After | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | Details | ||||
| West of England | Details | ||||
| Authority | Post | Type | First election |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Lincolnshire Mayoral Combined County Authority | Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire | Mayoral County Combined Authority in Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire[2] | 2025 (inaugural election) |
| Hull and East Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority | Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire | Mayoral Combined Authority in Kingston-upon-Hull, and the East Riding of Yorkshire[3] | 2025 (inaugural election) |
| Local authority | Post | Type | Current mayor | Party | Established | Next election | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council | Mayor of Doncaster | Metropolitan borough | 2002 | 2025 | 291,600 | |||
| North Tyneside Council | Mayor of North Tyneside | Metropolitan borough | 2002 | 2025 | 196,000 | |||