It is likely that a number of our cities will, by Government diktat, be holding referendums in May as to whether to move to a mayoral system. Some of these will give the go-ahead and Liverpool is anyway likely to jump straight to a mayoral system by use of a council resolution. The mayoral contests

Local elections on Anglesey will be delayed for a year until May 2013, after commissioners were called in to run the troubled council.

Richard Thomas started today as the Chief Executive of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The BBC reports: The Welsh Liberal Democrats’ former head of communications has been appointed as the party’s chief executive. Richard Thomas takes up the post as the Lib Dems get ready for local elections in all Welsh councils in May. He takes

Labour members in Plymstock have re-established their local party and elected a new chair with a mandate to win seats at the local elections in May 2012. Retired social worker, Shirley Smith, who doubled the Labour vote when she contested the Plymstock Radford ward in the local elections this year was elected unanimously by local party members. Shirley said: "Labour is making a come back in Plymst...

From today’s Guardian: We write to express broad support for the Compass Plan B proposals reported in the Observer (30 October). We are Liberal Democrat members who have campaigned hard for decades in national and local elections. We have also engaged in our party’s policymaking. For both reasons, we take seriously the policies on which we fought

Liberal Democrats at grassroots level across the country had been suffering since our landslide defeat in local elections and the defeat of the Alternative Vote referendum in May 2011. This has led, I believe, to a reduction in political engagement across the party at a local and national level. That is why the autumn conference

On the grounds that May 2010′s local elections were on the same day as the General Election – so no subjective weightings required, I thought I would apply those council results to the new parliamentary boundaries. In seats, the last election’s results look like Labour – 32 (down 6) Conservative – 31 (up 3) LibDem

The Greens have been in charge of Brighton and Hove Council after their success at May's local elections. Adam Fleming got on his bike to see how their policies are being received on the Sussex coast.

Posters branding Nick Clegg as "Cleggzilla", trampling over public services, helped to condemn the Lib Dems to a disastrous result in the 2011 local elections, an internal party inquiry has found.

New electronic vote counting technology is being tested in Perth ahead of the Scottish local elections in 2012.