Millions of voters will go to the polls in the UK in a matter of hours, with local elections in England, Scotland and Wales.
In England, more than 4,300 seats are contested – including all of London – while all 32 Scottish and 22 Welsh councils have been seized.
They will coincide with the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, with voters deciding to send 90 members from 18 constituencies to Stormont.
Here, The Independent looks at the estimated deadlines for key declarations for the local elections.
Thursday 22 hours
Voting ends in the United Kingdom.
From midnight to 3 in the morning
The first results will start appearing around 1 am, with Newcastle upon Tyne, Exeter, Basildon, Bolton and South Tyneside declaring before 2 am.
The result for Sunderland – a Labor-led council since 1974 – is also expected to fall at 2am, with conservatives seeking to shock and make enough profits to leave the council without full control.
Other results before 3 a.m. include Halton, Bolton, Broxbourne, Brentwood, Hart, Rushmoor, Tameside, Tamworth, Wigan, Worcester, Amber Valley, Chorley, Croydon, Harlow, Hartlepool, Plymouth, Redditch, Rochford, Sandwell, Sefton, Sunderland, Thurrock, Wirral, Oldham, Cumberland, Fareham, Ipswich, Lincoln, North East Lancashire, Peterborough, Preston and Stevenage.
from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m.
More results from London will start to be filtered in the Tory Safety Council in Westminster, which should announce at 3 am.
At the same time, results are expected from Sheffield, which Labor lost without full control in the last election. The party will hope to win seats from the Liberal Democrats to win the council again.
Elsewhere, Eastleigh, Epping Forest, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southend-on-Sea, Tandridge, Hammersmith and Fulham, Waltham Forest, Wolverhampton, Colchester, Kingston Hull, Redbridge, Barking & Ningat, Durham , Salford, Sutton, Bexley and Hounslow are expected before 5am.
5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
London’s Wandsworth district, a council in Tory hands for more than four decades, has been a major Labor target and is expected to be announced at 5.30am. The leader of the council’s Labor group told The Independent this week: “It will be reduced to a few votes here and there in key areas.
The result for the Derby City Council is expected to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning. In 2018, voters in the district elected more Tory councilors than Labor for the first time since 1990, and Sir Keira Starmer must strive to break through.
Havering, Kensington & Chelsea, Merton, Southampton, Southwark, Richmond-upon Thames, Enfield, Stockport, Brent and Barnsley are also expected to declare.
9 in the morning
A short break from the results, as the counting of 71 more councils in England and all councils in Scotland and Wales begins. The ballots will also be counted in Northern Ireland for the 90 members of the Assembly.
Lunch until 2 p.m.
The results are likely to resume, with the first results from Scotland. Expected declarations include Gateshead, Moray, Cambridge, Cannock Chase, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Huntingdonshire, Orkney Islands, Perth & Kinross, Shetland Islands, Solihull, Walsall, Westmorland & Furness, Calderdale.
14:00 to 16:00
The results are coming fast so far. The Conservative Labor battlefield, Newcastle Under Lyme, must complete the census, along with East Renfrewshire, a trilateral battle between the Tories, Labor and the SNP.
In Wales, Labor is seeking control of the Blaenau Gwent by a group of independents, while Flintshire is testing the Tories for popularity in an area where they performed well in the 2019 general election.
Between 14:00 and 15:00, Carmarthenshire, Castle Point, Cheltenham, Conway, Crowley, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Renfrewshire, Elmbridge, Inverclyde, Maidstone, Rosendale, Runimed, Slough, West Oxley Worth Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Fife, Havant, Reigate & Banstead, Scottish Borders, Three Rivers and Woking must declare.
More results from 15:00 are expected to include Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Blanau Gwent, Bromley, Caerfilly, Camden, Denbyshire, East Ayrshire, Flintshire, Hindburn, Knowsley, Manchester, Merter Tedfill, South Ayrshire, North Ayrshire Ayrshire Stirling, Torfaen, Trafford, Wellwyn Hatfield, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Keredigion, East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Anglesey, North Lanarkshire, Rochdale, West Lancashire and Hai.
from 16 to 18 hours
Results are expected from Glasgow, and as Colin Drury writes, the SNP is seeking full control of the city council for the first time. Westminster observers will also monitor the results of Wakefield following the resignation of MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was convicted last month of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Although Labor is expected to take the council, sociologist Peter Kellner has suggested that if Labor “gains a clear lead in the constituencies that make up the parliamentary seat, it could signal a Labor victory” in the upcoming Wakefield by-elections. June. Khan won the traditional Labor polling station in the 2019 general election as part of Boris Johnson’s Red Wall winnings.
They are also expected to declare Adour, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Haringe, Hastings, Midlotian, Milton Keynes, Mole Valley, Norwich, Ronda Saynon Taff, Rugby, Somerset, South Lanarkshire, St. Albans, St. Albans, St. Albans , Bridgend, Cardiff, Gosport, Gwynedd, Harrow, North Yorkshire, Poiss, St Helens, Swansea, Swindon, Watford, Wokingham, Pembrokeshire, Renfrewshire, Bradford, Greenwich, Islington, Tempting, Lamberth, Lambeth, Lambeth
Friday night
Most of the results should be by now, with Kirklis, North Hertfordshire, Hackney, Newham, Cherwell, Glamorgan Valley and Bury expected to declare after 18:00.
Saturday
The final result of the local elections should be around noon on Saturday, as the Tower Hamlets district of London will announce. The results are also expected in the Northern Ireland parliamentary elections, with little chance of coming across Monday.
Following the election, the 90 newly elected members of the assembly will meet within eight days and the crucial process of electing a new speaker with inter-community support and the position of prime minister will begin.
The result could lead to a historic change, with a recent Belfast Telegraph poll prompting Sinn Fein to be the largest party in Stormont and electing its first minister for the first time. However, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he was “not worried” about the shock poll and said he was confident his party would still win the parliamentary elections. This could be the beginning of a lengthy process, with 24 weeks available to form an CEO.
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