Local elections: Estimated declaration times for all May 7 elections in England, Scotland and Wales

Millions of voters will head to the polling stations on Thursday (May 7) for local elections in England, Scotland and Wales - with the major parties all hoping for glory, or limited defeat. While some will have cast their vote already by post or in four flexible pilot schemes in English councils, most will be heading to their polling station between 7am and 10pm on May 7, while others will not be voting at all.

And when you will find out the results also depends on where you are, with some authorities counting votes immediately upon polls closing, while others wait until the following day, and others even longer, to tally the votes. Counting of the votes for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments will not start until Friday morning, but 46 of the 136 English local authorities are doing so overnight, with the first results expected soon after midnight.

Four councils are not counting until Saturday, three because they also have mayoral elections, with the final result likely to come in late on Saturday night.

Estimated declaration times are based on information compiled by the Press Association and all are approximate and can be affected by issues such as delays in verifying and counting ballots, or by recounts, as well as turnout.

The results are important, as they are seen as a gauge of the popularity of the main political parties - and could even lead to a challenge to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, according to reports, if his Labour Party does particularly badly. However, Tony Blair - the most successful Labour leader of modern times - managed to navigate losing around 1,000 councillors at the first local elections following his landslide 1997 election victory.

English councils declaring on Friday

• Broxbourne 1am
• Halton 1am
• Harlow 1.30am
• North East Lincolnshire 2am
• Chorley 2am
• Hart 2am
• Hartlepool 2am
• Hull 2am
• Lincoln 2am
• Rochford 2am
• Redditch 1.45am
• Wigan 2.30am
• Tamworth 2.30am
• Basildon 3am
• Bolton 3am
• Brentwood 3am
• Exeter 3am
• Oxford 3am
• Peterborough 3am
• Portsmouth 3am
• Reading 3am
• Salford 3am
• Southend-on-Sea 3am
• Tameside 3am
• Colchester 3.30am
• Dudley 3.30am
• Westminster 3.30am
• Fareham 4am
• Gosport 4am
• Hampshire 4am
• Havant 4am
• Newcastle-under-Lyme 4am
• Plymouth 4am
• Wandsworth 4am
• Ealing 4.30am
• Sutton 4.30am
• Bexley 5am
• Eastleigh 5am
• Kensington & Chelsea 5am
• Merton 5am
• Oldham 5am
• Richmond-upon-Thames 5am
• Stockport 5am
• Hammersmith & Fulham 5.30am
• Havering 6am
• Southampton 6.30am
• Blackburn 12.30pm
• Manchester 12.30pm
• Burnley 1pm
• North Tyneside 1.45pm
• Cheltenham 2pm
• Hyndburn 2pm
• Rochdale 2pm
• Sheffield 2pm
• Welwyn Hatfield 2pm
• Huntingdonshire 2.30pm
• Norwich 2.30pm
• Pendle 2.30pm
• Preston 2.30pm
• St Helens 2.30pm
• West Oxfordshire 2.30pm
• Cannock Chase 3pm
• Epping Forest 3pm
• Isle of Wight 3pm
• Islington 3pm
• Knowsley 3pm
• Leeds 3pm
• Rushmoor 3pm
• Solihull 3pm
• Three Rivers 3pm
• Thurrock 3pm
• Waltham Forest 3pm
• Nuneaton & Bedworth 3.30pm
• Basingstoke & Deane 4pm
• Crawley 4pm
• Gateshead 4pm
• Greenwich 4pm
• Hillingdon 4pm
• Ipswich 4pm
• Rugby 4pm
• South Cambridgeshire 4pm
• Suffolk 4pm
• Sunderland 4pm
• Trafford 4pm
• Tunbridge Wells 4pm
• West Lancashire 4pm
• West Sussex 4pm
• Wolverhampton 4pm
• Barnsley 4.30pm
• Bury 4.30pm
• Harrow 4.30pm
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4.45pm
• Barking & Dagenham 5pm
• Barnet 5pm
• Brent 5pm
• Cambridge 5pm
• Coventry 5pm
• Enfield 5pm
• Essex 5pm
• Hackney 5pm
• Milton Keynes 5pm
• Redbridge 5pm
• Sandwell 5pm
• St Albans 5pm
• Stevenage 5pm
• Walsall 5pm
• Watford 5pm
• Wokingham 5pm
• Haringey 5.30pm
• Hounslow 5.30am
• Norfolk 5.30pm
• Sefton 5.30pm
• South Tyneside 5.30pm
• Adur 6pm
• Birmingham 6pm
• Camden 6pm
• East Surrey 6pm
• East Sussex 6pm
• Hastings 6pm
• Kingston-upon-Thames 6pm
• Kirklees 6pm
• Lambeth 6pm
• Newham 6pm
• Southwark 6pm
• Swindon 6pm
• Wakefield 6pm
• West Surrey 6pm
• Winchester 6pm
• Worthing 6pm
• Bromley 7pm
• Cherwell 7pm
• Calderdale 8.30pm

English councils declaring on Saturday:

• Bradford 4pm
• Croydon 4pm
• Lewisham 4pm
• Tower Hamlets 6pm

All of the mayoral elections are counting on Friday, with Hackney and Newham expected to declare at 1pm, Watford at 2pm, Lewisham at 3pm, Croydon at 4pm and Tower Hamlets at possibly around 6pm.

Scottish Parliament elections declaring on Friday:

12pm

• Airdrie

1pm

• Ayr
• Coatbridge & Chryston

1.30pm

• Na h-Eileanan an Iar

2pm

• Almond Valley
• Bathgate
• Cumbernauld & Kilsyth
• Moray
• Perthshire North
• Perthshire South & Kinross-shire
• Strathkelvin & Bearsden

2.15pm

• Glasgow Anniesland

2.30pm

• Cunninghame North
• Cunninghame South
• Glasgow Easterhouse & Springburn
• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

2.45pm

• Glasgow Baillieston & Shettleston

3pm

• Argyll & Bute
• Cowdenbeath
• East Lothian Coast & Lammermuirs
• Edinburgh Central
• Edinburgh Eastern, Musselburgh & Tranent
• Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith
• Edinburgh Northern
• Edinburgh North Western
• Edinburgh Southern
• Edinburgh South Western
• Fife Mid & Glenrothes
• Fife North East
• Glasgow Central
• Kirkcaldy
• Motherwell & Wishaw
• Paisley
• Renfrewshire North & Cardonald
• Renfrewshire West & Levern Valley

3.15pm

• Glasgow Southside

3.30pm

• Aberdeen Central
• Aberdeen Deeside & North Kincardine
• Aberdeen Donside
• Aberdeenshire East
• Aberdeenshire West
• Banffshire & Buchan Coast
• Dumfriesshire
• Galloway & Dumfries West
• Glasgow Kelvin & Maryhill
• Scotland North East

3.45pm

• Glasgow Cathcart & Pollok

4pm

• Angus North & Mearns
• Angus South
• Caithness, Sutherland & Ross
• Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley
• Clackmannanshire & Dunblane
• Clydesdale
• Dundee City East
• Dundee City West
• Dunfermline
• East Kilbride
• Eastwood
• Falkirk West
• Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse
• Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley
• Midlothian North
• Rutherglen & Cambuslang
• Scotland South
• Scotland West
• Stirling
• Uddingston & Bellshill

4.15pm

• Glasgow

4.30pm

• Ettrick, Roxburgh & Berwickshire
• Falkirk East & Linlithgow
• Inverclyde
• Midlothian South, Tweeddale & Lauderdale

5pm

• Clydebank & Milngavie
• Dumbarton
• Scotland Central & Lothians West

5.30pm

• Scotland Mid & Fife

6pm

• Edinburgh & Lothians East

6.30pm

• Inverness & Nairn
• Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch

7pm

• Highlands & Islands

Welsh Parliament elections declaring on Friday

2pm

• Casnewydd Islwyn
• Gwyr Abertawe
• Sir Fynwy Torfaen

3pm

• Bangor Conwy Mon
• Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni
• Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• Caerdydd Penarth
• Ceredigion Penfro
• Clwyd
• Pen-y-Bont Bro Morgannwg

3.30pm

• Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• Gwynedd Maldwyn

4pm

• Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• Sir Gaerfyrddin

5.30pm

• Fflint Wrecsam