Local elections 2025 LIVE: Latest updates as polls open across England

Twenty-three local authorities will be holding elections, with 14 of them county councils. They are: Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Further polls will be held in eight unitary authorities: Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Durham, North Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, West Northamptonshire and Wiltshire.

An election is also being held in one metropolitan council, Doncaster.

A major test for each of the parties will be the six mayoral contests in the West of England, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, North Tyneside, Doncaster, Greater Lincolnshire, and Hull and East Yorkshire.