Elections take place on May 5 2016 at the following 124 councils in England.
Councils are electing by thirds except for the following:
- All: Bristol; Cherwell; Colchester; Elmbridge; Exeter; Gloucester; Knowsley; Lincoln; Peterborough; Rochford; Rotherham; Sheffield; Stroud; Warrington; Watford; Welwyn Hatfield; Winchester; Woking
- Halves: Adur; Cheltenham; Fareham; Gosport; Hastings; Nuneaton & Bedworth; Oxford.
See separate advisory for details of results coverage.
Unitary (19):
Blackburn with Darwen
Bristol
Derby
Halton
Hartlepool
Kingston-upon-Hull
Milton Keynes
North East Lincolnshire
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Slough
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Swindon
Thurrock
Warrington
Wokingham
Metro (35):
Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham St Helens Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Non-Met (70):
Adur Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke & Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cheltenham Cherwell Chorley Colchester Craven Crawley Daventry Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gosport Great Yarmouth Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings Havant Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton & Bedworth Oxford Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate & Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor St Albans South Cambridgeshire South Lakeland Stevenage Stroud Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Weymouth & Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest
