Local elections in the United Kingdom are scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2019, contesting 248 English local councils, six directly elected mayors in England, and all 11 local councils in Northern Ireland
Use the BBC postcode database to see if they are taking place in your area.
Your Vote matters provides more detailed official information from the Electoral Commission
Their official website has research reports on election registration and past results. It also has a handbook for journalists with basic facts about the elections
the House of Commons Library blog also has some good basic background to the elections
Democratic Audit has created a dashboard with information for votes.
Their main website also has some academic discussion of the issues
News coverage
FT
Telegraph
BBC
Belfast telegraph
Analysis
LGIU news and analysis
Conservative Home blog
Left Foot Forward
Britain elects poll analysis
Slogger O'toole NI
Institute for Government
Economist
Conversation blog
Fawcett society lack of female candidates
Historic election data
for historic elections data see the Elections centre University of Plymouth
it provides free access to detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011
Take a look at some great examples of digital posters from our 1907 London County council elections.
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