📬With the final count concluded, we now have a full dataset of English local election results. All the votes cast for all the candidates - 18.5 million.
👇You can download the data from our candidate database: candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/data/shortcuts
These figures are unprecedented - more than twice our record for a non-General Election.
🔏 Polls have closed!
⤴️ We have processed over 10 million postcode searches from the UK public in the last month.
Election day: 2,648,429
This week: 4,635,003
Since 1 April: 10,564,221
🤩 Enormous thanks to the electoral administrators and volunteers who made this possible.
✨ Many, many thanks to our volunteer contributors who have made this possible.
❗Please let us know if you spot any errors.
Results will appear on whocanivotefor.co.uk as they are released over the coming hours and days.
🐶 Where is the best place in the UK to see #dogsatpollingstations ?
🐕 Possibly Cowal Dog Training Club in Argyll and Bute, which is a polling place today!
🐾 Find your polling station: wheredoivote.co.uk
⭐ Greenwich electoral services have published turnout stats for each of their polling districts: www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
We think all councils should have to do this, and have suggested an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill: bills.parliament.uk/publications...
We've added the results of the 7 May town and parish council elections to our blog.
70.3% of seats were won by independent candidates and 11.1% by candidates representing political parties. 19% of seats remain unfilled.
democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/04...
We're very interested to see the answer to this!
We wrote about clause 49 in February: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/02...
More in our blog: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/05...
