Local Elections England: 2025

Each year, LGIU commissions Ipsos to conduct polling on UK attitudes to local elections, the work of councillors and the role of local government in England. The 2025 findings also explore the public’s knowledge of reorganisation and devolution plans. Read the report.

This is a question we are often asked, so we put together this informative article looking at how no overall control (NOC) is worked out, what it means for the running of a council and where this year’s NOC battlegrounds are. Read the article.

We have been covering the local elections for well over a decade now and have a wealth of valuable insight. We have experts available to provide commentary and discussion across a range of election issues. Get in touch via our press team.

This LGIU members briefing, updated for 2025, covers some essential issues for local authorities during the pre-election period. It includes the publicity code, tackling discriminatory election campaigns, using data during campaigning and the position of elected members who are also campaigning for re-election. Read the briefing.

Following our 2023 study into the administration of voter ID, we once again surveyed electoral administrators in 2024, after the general election. Both studies asked electoral administrators to rate how much of a problem for electoral integrity a series of different features of the electoral process are. Explore the findings.

Peter Stanyon, Chief Executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA), looks at how changes introduced by the 2022 Elections Act are bedding in to electoral processes in England. Read the article.

Democratic engagement is not just for elections. This collection of inspiring examples of local government innovation focuses on measures to improve levels of political trust. Explore the examples.

This short guide offers some practical tips on assessing risk and adopting strategies and behaviours that will minimise any potential hazards you might identify as part of your councillor role and while you are out and about on the campaign trail. Read the guide.

This 2023 LGIU member briefing looks at the main issues affecting local journalism, with a particular focus on the impact it has on reporting local government and the situation now that many local papers have closed down. Read the briefing.

LGIU Training provides online training sessions that will help new councillors pick up the knowledge and skills that they will need to settle into the role. We can also work with you to develop and in-house training programme tailored to the needs of your council and councillors. Find out about our training for councillors and our in-house offer.

Councils are responsible for a very wide range of services, many of which are statutory (i.e. they are legally required to fulfil them). Find out here which type of authority is responsible for which service.

This collection of LGIU resources provides you and your teams with all of the devolution and LGR essentials that you need and is regularly updated with new resources. Explore the collection.

Our resources page collates a wealth of LGIU resources that will help the May intake to navigate the councillor role and get up to speed with subjects and ways of working that may well be new to them. Some of the content is for members only and we encourage all new councillors to find out if their council is an LGIU member. Go to the resources page.