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

* 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
Hounslow 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
Isle of Wight 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
Newcastle under Lyme North Hertfordshire Oxford
Peterborough Rochford Rugby
South Cambridgeshire Swindon Three Rivers
Tunbridge Wells West Lancashire West Oxfordshire
Westminster Winchester Wokingham