What elections are taking place, and where?published at 06:12 British Summer Time
Around a third of voters in England are getting the chance to have their say in these elections, and more than 1,600 councillors will be elected.
All the seats will be contested in:
- 14 county councils: Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire
- Eight unitary authorities: Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, County Durham, North Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, West Northamptonshire and Wiltshire
- One metropolitan district: Doncaster
And six areas will be voting for a directly-elected mayor: the West of England, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, North Tyneside, Doncaster and – for the first time – both Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire.
We’ve also got a Westminster by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.
In addition, more than a thousand parish councils and the Isles of Scilly are holding elections.
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