[19][20], The Welsh and Scottish parliaments uses the Additional member system, or AMS. The incumbent mayor Sadiq Khan, who is seeking re-election, will serve a five-year term ending in 2021. 17 . %PDF-1.6 %���� [17] Councils having "all-up" elections will have block voting, where voters have a vote for each seat the ward represents and the top councillors are elected. [9] On 12 March, the Association of Electoral Administrators asked the government to consider postponing the elections should the situation in the UK get worse coming close to May. � � #V?�� U? Seventeen unitary authorities elect a third of their councillors every year for three years including 2020 but not 2021, and these elections have been postponed to 2021. New unitary authorities to replace the county and district councils in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire are due to hold their inaugural elections this year. [11], A day later, Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to postpone the 2020 UK local elections until May 2021. Four police and crime commissioners in Wales are up for election. This means voters vote once in single member constituency and once for party representation in the electoral region they are in. Buckinghamshire County Council was replaced with a unitary authority, Buckinghamshire Council, on 1 April 2020;[27] the first election to the new unitary authority was scheduled for May 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic was rescheduled for May 2021. There were previously fifty-five unitary authorities, but three more are due to be created by the May elections. Seven combined authority mayors are up for election. [4] Following the election result, the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn announced he would be stepping down from his position, though remain an MP. The 100 councillors are elected across twenty-five wards. The remaining three metropolitan boroughs elect their councillors in full every four years. Two unitary authorities were scheduled to elect all their councillors in 2020 but these have also been postponed to 2021. At the 2019 European Parliament election, a few weeks later, the Conservatives had their lowest share of the vote in a nation-wide election in their history, with the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats coming first and second, respectively. [14] To preserve the four-year electoral cycle, those elected in 2021 will serve three-year terms. The City of London Common Council elections are scheduled to take place on 18 March 2021, seven weeks before the elections in the rest of England. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Elections will take place to elect all members of the Scottish Parliament. 2016, 2020 and every 4th year . Local and mayoral elections in England will be postponed for a year to May 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak. 2017, 2021 and every 4th year . [26], Of the resulting fifty-eight unitary authorities, thirty elect all their councillors every four years on the cycle from 2019, so are not due to hold elections until 2023.

Two of these, Halton and Hartlepool, have had boundary changes that mean they are electing all of their councillors in 2021.[29][30]. They are now expected to be held at the same time as the elections previously scheduled for 2021.[3]. [28] The first elections to the shadow authorities (temporary council structures before the council formally begins) were planned to be held in May 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic have been rescheduled to May 2021. Local elections also took place at the same time in Northern Ireland, which saw a rise in the Alliance Party's representation across the region. It has sixteen seats, which in the previous 2017 election were all won by independent candidates. UK Government has announced plans to bring forward legislation to move the 7 May 2020 scheduled polls to 6 May 2021. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the May 2020 elections were postponed to May 2021. [18] Voting rights will be extended to foreign nationals that live in Wales, and residents aged 16 or over.[32][18]. UK Postpones Local Elections To 2021 As COVID-19 Cases Rise To 802 The British government has decided to postpone the local elections after the Election Commission’s request due to the evolving situation of coronavirus. [10] The same day, the Electoral Commission recommended that the elections be delayed till the autumn. County councils are the upper part of a two-tier system of local government, with the area each covers subdivided into district councils with different responsibilities. Unitary authorities. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council was due to hold an election for all councillors in May 2020, but this was postponed to 2021. [16] A resident can be registered to vote in two different local authorities, such as a student, they may vote in both. Birmingham City Council holds its elections on a four-year cycle from 2018, so is not due to hold an election until 2022. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. Local elections also took place at the same time in Northern Ireland, which saw a rise in the Alliance Party'srepresentation across the region. If no candidate receives 50% of the vote, all except for the top two are eliminated. endstream endobj 1070 0 obj <>stream Six non-metropolitan district councils have half of their seats up for election.[31]. Twelve district councils have all of their seats up for election. In March 2020 the government announced that the elections originally scheduled for 7 May 2020 would be delayed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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