This page contains the Statements of Persons Nominated (SOPNs) for the elections in May 2026. It comprises the collated SOPNs for each council in PDF format.

Candidate breakdown spreadsheet

GUIDE TO THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: LONDON

GUIDE TO THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: ENGLAND

* denotes council that has undergone boundary changes

2025 nominations
2024 nominations
2023 nominations
2022 nominations


LONDON BOROUGHS

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley
Brent Bromley Camden
Croydon Croydon Mayor Ealing
Enfield Greenwich Hackney
Hackney Mayor Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey
Harrow Havering Hillingdon
Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston-upon-Thames
Lambeth Lewisham Lewisham Mayor
Merton Newham Newham Mayor
Redbridge Richmond-upon-Thames Southwark
Sutton Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets Mayor
Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

COUNTY COUNCILS

East Sussex Essex Hampshire
Norfolk Suffolk West Sussex

DISTRICTS AND UNITARIES

Adur *Barnsley Basildon
Basingstoke and Deane Blackburn with Darwen Bolton
*Bradford Brentwood Burnley
Bury *Calderdale Cambridge
Cannock Chase Cheltenham Cherwell
Chorley Colchester *Coventry
Crawley Dudley East Surrey
Eastleigh Epping Forest Exeter
Fareham Gateshead Gosport
Halton Harlow Hart
Hartlepool Hastings Havant
Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich
Kingston-upon-Hull *Kirklees Knowsley
Leeds Lincoln Manchester
*Milton Keynes Newcastle-under-Lyme *Newcastle-upon-Tyne
North East Lincolnshire North Tyneside Norwich
Nuneaton and Bedworth Oldham Oxford
Pendle Peterborough Plymouth
Portsmouth Preston Reading
Redditch Rochdale Rochford
Rugby Rushmoor St Albans
St Helens Salford *Sandwell
*Sefton Sheffield *Solihull
South Cambridgeshire South Tyneside Southampton
Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Stockport
*Sunderland Swindon Tameside
Tamworth Three Rivers *Thurrock
Trafford Tunbridge Wells *Wakefield
Walsall Watford Watford Mayor
Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire *West Oxfordshire
*West Surrey Wigan Winchester
Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing

PARISH COUNCILS

Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane
Birmingham Blackburn with DarwenBurnley
Cheltenham Cherwell Chorley
Colchester Eastleigh Hart
Huntingdonshire Manchester Milton Keynes
Newcastle under Lyme North Hertfordshire Oxford
Peterborough Rochford Rugby
South Cambridgeshire Swindon Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells West Lancashire West Oxfordshire
Westminster Winchester Wokingham