More than 4,000 local Council seats are up for election on 3 May 2018. Most eyes will be on London where there are all out elections and Labour is optimistic about making further gains. There are also elections in councils across England.
Most Councils are expected to start counting shortly after ballots close at 10pm although some Councils are not starting until the following day and the results will not be known until late on Friday afternoon.
The New Statesman has helpfully provided estimates, based on previous experience, as to when we can anticipate the results to start rolling in. The first results are expected from around 12.30am, with early London results starting at 2am.
12:30am: Sunderland and Broxbourne results in.
1:00: Basildon, Castle Point, Halton, Harlow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Sefton, South Tyneside, Swindon, Tameside and West Oxfordshire.
1:30: Bury, Cannock Chase and Exeter
2:00: Brent, Chorley, Epping Forest, Fareham Hart, Hartlepool, Kingston-Upon-Hull, North Hertfordshire, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Tamworth, Trafford, Wirral, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Amber Valley, Carlisle, Lincoln, Oxford, St Albans, Stockport, Westminster and Wigan.
03:00: Barking & Dagenham, Basingstoke & Deane, Brentwood, Colchester Dudley, Eastleigh, Hammersmith & Fulham, Havant, Liverpool, North East, Lincolnshire, Plymouth, Sandwell, Sheffield, Southend-on-Sea, St Helens, Tandridge, Wakefield, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth.
03:30: Cheltenham, Coventry, Rugby and West Lancashire all declare.
04:00:Barnet, Bolton, Bradford, Enfield, Hillingdon, Ipswich, Reading, Richmond-upon Thames, Rushmoor, Slough, Walsall, and Wokingham.
04:30: Daventry, Gosport, and Welwyn Hatfield
05:00: Croydon, Kensington & Chelsea, Leeds, Southampton, Sutton, Thurrock and Winchester
05:30: Portsmouth.
06:00: Cambridge and Derby
07:00: Havering, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets
08:00: Ealing, Greenwich and Merton declare
09:00: Bexley, Camden and Redbridge
Get some sleep until….
12:00: Lewisham Bromley Borough Council
12:30: The Watford mayoralty and Barnsley
13:00: Newham mayoralty, Solihull Council and Calderdale
13:30: Burnley, Gateshead, Kirklees and Milton Keynes
14:00: Maidstone, Knowsley North Tyneside, Runnymede, and Wyre Forest declare. The Sheffield City Region mayoral “race will also declare.
14:30: Crawley, Hounslow, Hyndburn and Norwich
15:00: Craven, Great Yarmouth, Harrogate, Hastings, Huntingdonshire, Redditch, Rossendale, and Tunbridge Wells
16:00: Blackburn with Darwen, Haringey, and Elmbridge
16:30: Harrow and Mole Valley
17:00: Adur, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Lewisham, Newham, Reigate and Banstead, South Cambridgeshire, Woking and Worthing.
17:30: Watford
18:00: Birmingham, Lambeth and Manchester
18:30: Islington
19:00: Hackney
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