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Voters across England and Wales are voting on Thursday, in what is the largest test of electoral opinion before the next general election.
The public will cast their verdict on 10 metro mayors, local council seats and a by-election, with polling stations open from 7am to 10pm.
The results could also have wider implications for Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives amid rumours a potential hammering could lead to a leadership challenge.
Tory MPs will be carefully analysing the results in their local areas to see what it means for their seats, while Labour will be hoping is lead in opinion polls will translate into electoral success across England and Wales.
The Prime Minister has been warned the Tories could lose up to half of the council seats they have in England, with elections taking place in more than 2,600 council seats across 107 local authorities.
When are the mayoral election results?
In the 10 mayoral elections across England, results are expected between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening.
The London mayoral contest will have the biggest interest, with Sadiq Khan facing down Tory rival Susan Hall.
Elsewhere, Ben Houchen in Tees Valley and Andy Street in the West Midlands will be hoping to retain their seats for the Conservatives.
Here are the estimated times for the results:
Friday
- 12pm – North East
- 12.30pm – Tees Valley
- 2.30pm – East Midlands
- 3pm – York & North Yorkshire
Saturday
- 12pm – Liverpool City Region
- 1.30pm – London
- 2pm – South Yorkshire
- 3pm – West Midlands
- 3.15pm – West Yorkshire
- 4pm – Greater Manchester
- 5pm – Salford
When are the council election results?
Local elections will take place across 107 English councils, including 31 metropolitan boroughs, 18 unitary councils and 58 district councils, with results expected between early Friday morning and Sunday afternoon.
A total of 2,636 seats are up for grabs, with most councils electing only a minority of councillors.
But the vote may have wider national implications, with the national vote share being a strong indicator of how people will vote at the next general election.
Here are all the estimated timings for all the council elections across England Wales. All timings are estimates based on information compiled by the PA news agency and are subject to change.
Friday
- 12.30am – Broxbourne
- 1.30am – Hartlepool, Rochford, Sunderland
- 2am – Bolton, Gosport, Ipswich, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East Lincolnshire, South Tyneside, Wigan
- 2.30am – Chorley, Eastleigh, Fareham, Hart, Oldham, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southend-on-Sea
- 2.45am – Exeter
- 3am – Harlow, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lincoln, Sefton, Tameside, Thurrock
- 3.15am – Reading
- 3.30am – Colchester, Gateshead, Redditch, Stockport
- 4am – Peterborough, Plymouth
- 4.30am – Southampton
- 5.30am – Winchester
- 11am – Norwich
- 12pm – Blackburn with Darwen, Walsall
- 12.30pm – Castle Point, Havant
- 1pm – Cannock Chase, Manchester, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield
- 1.30pm – Burnley, Preston, Sheffield, West Oxfordshire
- 2pm – Basildon, Brentwood, Hyndburn, Knowsley, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Rossendale
- 2.30pm – Crawley, Rochdale, Solihull
- 3pm – Barnsley, Hastings, Kirklees, Maidstone, Rotherham, Three Rivers
- 3.30pm – Halton, Milton Keynes, Sandwell, Trafford
- 4pm – Adur, Bury, Calderdale, Cheltenham, Epping Forest, Pendle, St Albans, Swindon, Tunbridge Wells, Woking, Wokingham
- 4.30pm – Dudley, Leeds, Wakefield
- 5pm – Basingstoke & Deane, Bradford, Cambridge, Coventry, Oxford, Runnymede, Tandridge, Worthing
- 5.30pm – Rugby, Wolverhampton, Worcester
- 5.45pm – Cherwell
- 6pm – Mole Valley, North Hertfordshire, Reigate & Banstead, Stevenage, Tamworth
- 6.30pm – Bristol, Elmbridge
- 7pm – Dorset
- 8pm – West Lancashire
- 10pm – Gloucester
Saturday
- 4pm – North Tyneside, Stroud, Warrington
Sunday
When is the Blackpool South by-election result?
Scott Benton, who won the seat for the Tories in 2019, was forced to resign after it was reported he offered to lobby ministers in exchange for money, triggering a by-election in Blackpool South, with results expected to be declared in the early hours of Friday morning at approximately 4am.
The constituency had previously been held by the Conservatives for decades after its creation in 1945 – right up until 1997 when Labour won it.
Here’s a full list of candidates standing in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election
- Stephen Black (Independent)
- Mark Butcher (Reform UK)
- Andrew Cregan (Liberal Democrats)
- Howling Laud Hope (Monster Raving Loony)
- David Jones (Conservatives)
- Kim Knight (Alliance for Democracy and Freedom)
- Damon Sharp (New Open Non-Political Organised Leadership)
- Ben Thomas (Green)
- Chris Webb (Labour)
