What date are the local elections in 2022?

Grangemouth residents have been promised change and many are hoping that after delays caused by Covid they will at last start to see some action.

Voters across Dundee and Broughty Ferry will be able to have their say on who runs their council in just over a week's time.

Voters in Stockport will go to the polls again on Thursday week to choose which candidates will represent them on the council for the next four years. The borough - under no overall control since 2011 - will undoubtedly be one to watch, with Labour and the Lib Dems again neck and neck in their battle to run the town hall.

Trafford’s Labour-led council is set for a shake up next week. With just over a week to go until Trafford heads to the polls, with a third of the council’s seats up for grabs again, here’s a run-down of the big names, familiar faces and hotly-contested seats to look out for on Thursday May 5.

Voters will soon be hitting the polls on May 5 to have their say in who they want to represent them in their local council.

Candidates fighting for votes in the Falkirk South ward ahead of May’s Falkirk Council election are campaigning around issues that include regenerating the town centre and better facilities for other parts of the ward.

Councils up and down the country are preparing for the local elections.

A Salford Councillor for Kersal and Broughton Park has defected from the Liberal Democrats and is now independent for the ‘best interests’ of his constituents. Coun Andrew Walters was elected back in May 2021 for the Liberal Democrats but now says that he must run for re-election as an independent 'in order to better serve his constituents'.

On May 5 West Dunbartonshire will go to the polls to decide who will make up the new council administration.

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Local elections across the UK will take place in May for more than 200 local authorities, including all 33 London boroughs and 34 metropolitan boroughs in England. In Greater Manchester, hundreds of candidates will be eager to win seats on the region's 10 councils.

One in three LGBTQI Australian voter said that they are undecided about who they will vote for or are considering changing their vote at the forthcoming federal elections scheduled to be held on May 21, 2022. The results of one of the largest national online surveys of LGBTQI voters conducted by advocacy group Equality Australia was released on Monday, just as major political parties started their six-week campaign before the federal elections. One in five LGBTQI voter, who had voted Liberal, National, Labor or Greens at the 2019 elections, said they were reconsidering their vote this time.   A post shared by Equality Australia (@equalityaustralia)Equality Australia estimates that there are around 850,000 LGBTQI voters who are eligible to vote at the elections in May. Around 7,902 people, including 5,578 LGBQI people currently living in Australia, responded to the LGBTIQ+ Federal Election survey conducted in February and March 2022. The elections are being held months after a failed bid by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to get an anti-LGBTQI Religious Discrimination Bill passed in Parliament.

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Stockport voters will go to the polls later this month in what looks to be another tightly-fought battle for control of the town hall. The council is currently run by Labour despite the Lib Dems emerging as the largest group at last year’s local elections.

There are 53 candidates standing in Tameside’s local elections next month when one seat will be up for grabs in each of the borough’s 19 wards. The council is currently dominated by Labour, who hold 51 of its 57 seats, with the remainder taken by the five-strong Conservative group and a lone Green.

Local elections will take place on May 5 this year - and votes will be cast in all four regions of the UK. More than a third of local authorities will be holding contests for new councillors, while some areas will also be electing regional mayors.

Bolton’s council elections are less than a month away with a third of seats up for grabs in the poll. Residents are voting in each of the borough’s 20 wards on polling day on Thursday, May 5 with 20 of the authority’s 60 members set to be elected.