This page contains the Statements of Persons Nominated (SOPNs) for the elections in May 2023. It comprises the collated SOPNs for each council in PDF format.

Candidate breakdown spreadsheet

If you cannot access excel spreadsheets, it's also available as a Google spreadsheet

2026 nominations
2025 nominations
2024 nominations
2022 nominations


* denotes council that has undergone boundary changes

*Amber Valley Arun Ashfield
Ashford Babergh Barnsley
Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw
Bath and North East Somerset *Bedford ¦ Mayor *Blaby
Blackburn with Darwen *Blackpool Bolsover
*Bolton Boston Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
*Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree
Breckland Brentwood *Brighton and Hove
Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne
Broxtowe Burnley Bury
Calderdale Cambridge Cannock Chase
Canterbury Castle Point *Central Bedfordshire
*Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell
Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester *Chesterfield
Chichester Chorley Colchester
Cotswold Coventry Crawley
Dacorum Darlington Dartford
*Derby *Derbyshire Dales Dover
Dudley East Cambridgeshire East Devon
East Hampshire *East Hertfordshire East Lindsey
East Riding of Yorkshire *East Staffordshire East Suffolk
Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest
*Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter
*Fenland Folkestone and Hythe Forest of Dean
*Fylde Gateshead Gedling
*Gravesham Great Yarmouth *Guildford
Halton Harborough Harlow
Hartlepool Hart Havant
Herefordshire Hertsmere High Peak
Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hyndburn
Ipswich King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingston upon Hull
Kirklees Knowsley *Lancaster
Leeds Leicester ¦ Mayor Lewes
Lichfield Lincoln *Liverpool
*Luton Maidstone Maldon
*Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield ¦ Mayor
*Medway Melton *Mid Devon
Mid Suffolk *Mid Sussex Middlesbrough ¦ Mayor
Milton Keynes *Mole Valley *New Forest
Newark and Sherwood Newcastle upon Tyne North Devon
North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire
*North Kesteven *North Lincolnshire North Norfolk
North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire*
North West Leicestershire Norwich Nottingham
Oadby and Wigston *Oldham Pendle
Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth
Preston Reading Redcar and Cleveland
Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley
Rochdale Rochford Rossendale
Rother Rugby Runnymede
*Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland
St Albans Salford Sandwell
Sefton Sevenoaks Sheffield
*Slough Solihull South Derbyshire
South Hams South Holland South Gloucestershire
South Kesteven South Norfolk South Oxfordshire
South Ribble *South Staffordshire South Tyneside
*Southampton Southend on Sea Spelthorne
Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage
*Stockport *Stockton on Tees *Stoke on Trent
*Stratford on Avon Sunderland Surrey Heath
Swale Swindon Tameside
Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge
*Telford and The Wrekin Tendring Test Valley
Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers
Thurrock *Tonbridge and Malling Torbay
Torridge *Trafford Tunbridge Wells
Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Wakefield
Walsall Warwick Watford
*Waverley Wealden Welwyn Hatfield
West Berkshire West Devon *West Lancashire
West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Suffolk
*Wigan Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead
Wirral Woking Wokingham
*Wolverhampton *Worcester Worthing
*Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest
York