7 May 2026

Called It: Super Thursday

The UK's biggest local election night in years. Thousands of seats, four different contests — make your predictions and see how you compare.

How it works

1

Pick a contest below and make your prediction

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Watch results come in on 8th/9th May and see how well you called it

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Scores and leaderboards update as results come in. Rankings will keep shifting until 100% of the contests have declared.

View results → See the leaderboards →

Predict the overall council change

How many of the 136 councils will each party control on May 8? Adjust up or down from where things are now. Score up to 10 points from each party, based on how close your seat-count guess is to the actual result.

Your prediction

Prev
136
You
136
New
136
  • Lab65
  • Con15
  • LD12
  • Ref0
  • Grn0
  • Ind2
  • NOC42
136 / 136 allocated
Labour prev 65
Conservative prev 15
Lib Dems prev 12
Reform prev 0
Green prev 0
Independent prev 2
No overall control prev 42

to see your score.

Average council changes based on Called It predictions so far vs polls

-36-37
Lab
-5-11
Con
+2
LD
+18+14
Ref
+10+5
Grn
Ind
+11+29
NOC

Solid bars: Called It players. Outlined bars: poll-based projection via PollCheck.co.uk, generated 6 May.

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