What’s up for grabs in the 2021 local elections? The delay of the 2020 local elections means that these are the biggest local elections since 1973, when local government was reorganised, with mostly everyone in England and Wales able to participate in an election.
The delayed 2020 local elections – which are being held this year – were more complicated than the planned 2021 ones, as those seats were last fought over before the 2016 Brexit vote and the subsequent realignments in voting behaviour, so there is a greater possibility of surprising results. The 2017 contests, which were always due to be refought this year, are less strange.
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