Local elections 2025
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Local elections 2025
West Northamptonshire Council unitary and parish elections - Thursday 1 May 2025
West Northamptonshire Council unitary and Parish Council elections will be held on Thursday 1 May 2025.
You will be able to vote for candidates to fill:
- all parish council seats (if contested)
- all of West Northamptonshire Council's seats (1 May elections will elect 76 councillors to represent 35 wards)
Notices
Timetable
| Application | Deadline for receipt |
|---|---|
Delivery of Nomination Papers | Monday 17 March to 4pm on Wednesday 2 April 2025 |
| Deadline for withdrawal of nomination paper | 4pm on Wednesday 2 April 2025 |
| Publication of Statement of Persons Nominated | No later than 4pm on Thursday 3 April 2025 |
| Last date for registration | Friday 11 April 2025 |
| Deadline for receiving new postal vote and postal proxy applications, and for changes to existing postal or proxy votes | 5pm on Monday 14 April 2025 |
| Proxy vote application deadline | 5pm on Wednesday 23 April 2025 |
| Last day for Voter Authority Certificates and Anonymous Elector Documents | 5pm on Wednesday 23 April 2025 |
| Receipt of emergency proxy vote applications | 5pm on Thursday 1 May 2025 |
West Northamptonshire Council seats
| Name of ward | Number of councillors |
|---|---|
| Abington & Phippsville | 2 |
| Billing | 2 |
| Blackthorn & Rectory Farm | 2 |
| Brackley | 3 |
| Braunston & Crick | 2 |
| Brixworth | 1 |
| Campion | 2 |
| Castle | 3 |
| Cogenhoe and the Houghtons | 1 |
| Dallington Spencer | 3 |
| Daventry North East | 1 |
| Daventry North West | 1 |
| Daventry South | 3 |
| Deanshanger and Paulerspury | 2 |
| Duston | 3 |
| Far Cotton, Delapre and Briar Hill | 3 |
| Hackleton and Roade | 2 |
| Headlands | 3 |
| Hunsbury | 3 |
| Kingsley and Semilong | 2 |
| Kingsthorpe North | 3 |
| Kingsthorpe South | 2 |
| Long Bucky | 2 |
| Middleton Cheney | 2 |
| Moulton | 3 |
| Naseby | 1 |
| Nene Valley | 3 |
| Parklands | 1 |
| Rural North East | 1 |
| Rural South Northamptonshire | 3 |
| Talavera | 2 |
| Towcester | 3 |
| Upton | 2 |
| Weston Favell and Abington Vale | 2 |
| Woodford and Weedon | 2 |
Guidance regarding standing for election one of the above wards is available on the Electoral Commission website.
Last updated 21 March 2025