Live updates as the polls close after millions of Britons cast their votes in the 2024 local elections with predictions the Conservatives could suffer huge council losses.
There's a lot going on, but this graphic should help you pinpoint what to keep an eye out for and where the key races may be.Labour have secured victory in the Blackpool South by-election and made early gains in the local election results by inflicting a series of defeats on the Conservatives .
I have a message to the Labour party - they know that they have to win here in order to win at the general elections - they assume that Tees Valley would stroll back to them but it didn't. People knew that they couldn't be taken for granted. They stuck with you in this election, and I know come the general election they are going to stick with us too.14:07Labour gain Adur District CouncilLabour has won Adur District Council from the Conservatives in West Sussex.
12:55Independents gain complete control of Essex councilA group of Independent councillors have taken complete control of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex after the Conservatives lost all eight of their seats. Once confirmed it would mean the party has taken control of five councils today after earlier success in Thurrock, Redditch, Rushmoor and Hartlepool.12:31Breaking: Labour declares victory in East Midlands mayoral contestLabour has declared its candidate has won the mayoral race in East Midlands.
12:19Labour condemns racist language 'used by party source'Labour have criticised remarks attributed to a senior party source who briefed the party was on course to lose the West Midlands mayoral contest. Ben Houchen said it was the “greatest honour anyone could give me” to be re-elected as mayor in the “place where I’m going to be for the rest of my life.”I am absolutely humbled by everybody that voted for me, Teesside is a place where I was born where I grew up other than a very short sabbatical to Newcastle for four years and then I came straight back.It’s a place where I’m going to be for the rest of my life.
Asked whether he needs to convince his party he can do better in a general election, he told reporters at a military base in North Yorkshire: In Middlesbrough, he polled 13,285 votes over Labour’s Chris McEwan who had 12,749 and 1,390 for Liberal Democrat Simon Thorley.Conceding defeat in the Tees Valley mayoral election, a Labour source said the switch away from Lord Ben Houchen was greater than the 12% swing they would need to sweep the Tees Valley constituencies in a general election.
Our reporter Chris Matthews has reported how Lee Anderson and Nick Robinson clashed after the Reform Party was accused of hurting the Conservatives in the local elections by taking votes away.Local Elections 2024: Reform's Lee Anderson clashes with Nick RobinsonIn a heated debate on BBC Radio 4 Today, journeyman politician Lee Anderson claimed some BBC stalwarts would be glad if Reform didn't stand in local elections.
He notes: 'Blair was personable, charismatic and charming, with the oratorical gifts of a latter-day Cicero – Starmer, to put it mildly, is not.'Blair filled me with hope in 1997 but Keir is just stirring up apathyDo you remember 1997? I certainly do. They were heady days for a young Labour member .Mail OnlineNote this comment piece is available for Mail Plus subscribers
That wasn’t just a little message, that wasn’t just a murmur, that was a shout from Blackpool.We want change, and Blackpool speaks for the whole country. It says we have had enough now after 14 years of failure, 14 years of decline. We need to turn the page and start afresh with Labour, which has a positive plan for the country.07:48Results to look out for in the local elections
Mr Anderson, who joined Reform UK as its first MP in March, said he believed the public has"already made their mind up" about a change of government when the country heads to the polls. The Prime Minister is going to go on and lead the Conservative Party into the general election, there’s no doubt about that.Asked for his reaction to the results so far, Mr Holden said:
06:07What councils have Labour gained so far?Labour has today regained control of multiple councils across England.But Labour failed to take control of Harlow which was held by the Conservatives while they lost control of Oldham after losing seats to Independents.05:48Elections expert - Tories on course to lose 500 councillors
With two seats still to declare, the party was unable to reach the threshold of 31 for a majority on the council. It has been impossible for weeks to find a Tory who thought they would win the Blackpool South by-election. 03:52Labour wins Blackpool South with the Tories pipping Reform into second placeLabour's Chris Webb has been elected as the MP for Blackpool South.
03:32Things looking tight in HarlowIt looks like it could go down to the wire in Harlow as the Tories try to fend off Labour. However, their share of the vote was down 20% on the last election, with Labour and Reform gaining 10% each.03:10WATCH: Activist moonwalks at Blackpool countWith the count in the Blackpool South by-election taking longer than expected, some onlookers have taken to moonwalking to distract themselves.
From what we have seen from some of the local elections in the north-east and from this by-election in Blackpool South is that Reform UK is rapidly become the real opposition to Labour, whether it's in the North, the Midlands, we know it's the case in Wales.So, yes, we are very excited. This is a very good day for Reform UK. It's also a good day for democracy, actually, because the Great British people have got a serious alternative to consider when they want to go and vote.
'This result demonstrates just how much the Labour Party has changed and people in Rushmoor know that only Labour can deliver the change they want to see. Going into the election the Conservatives were the largest single party with 30 seats, but they've lost five of the eight wards declared so far tonight.
01:38Breaking:Labour gain ThurrockLabour have gained Thurrock, having gained seven seats from the Conservatives in the Essex council with 14 of 17 results declared. Thurrock Council had been controlled by the Conservatives from 2021 to 2024, but it reverted to overall control earlier this year.A Labour spokesperson said it is 'exactly the kind of place we need to be winning to gain a majority in a general election'.01:19Breaking:Labour gain HartlepoolLabour have gained control of Hartlepool Council, it has now been confirmed.
The party needed to win four seats of the 14 seats it held going in to polling day, and while it achieved that, its majority will be reduced.The party held 46 of the 78 council seats going in to polling day and needed to win 10 of the 27 being contested to retain control. 00:25Breaking: Conservatives HOLD Broxbourne in first council election resultThe first council to declare its full result this morning was Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, where the Conservatives won nine and Labour one of the 10 seats being contested, meaning no seats changed hands.
"If they want to vote Reform, they'll end up with Labour MPs, and they'll end up with a Labour government, and then they'll end up, probably, with everything they didn't want to vote for based on the profile of Reform voters." Labour has kept control of Sunderland City Council and is taking seats from the Tories, while Reform has beaten the Conservatives into third place in a number of wards.
'We have now seen Reform outpoll the Conservatives in each of the ward results we have got in for Sunderland so far.''Perhaps a vital question is what is going to happen in the majority of wards where Reform is not present,' he added. 23:26Breaking:Labour hold SunderlandOur first result of the night has come from the north east, where Labour have kept control of the Sunderland City Council.
He told an Institute for Government event this week the Tories were emphasising two mayoral battles in West Midlands and Tees Valley, where they are currently in charge, 'because they think they might manage to win the contest and therefore they'll be able to cover whatever disasters happen elsewhere'.'Equally, conversely here in London, Sadiq Khan will not do as well as the Labour Party would do in a general election because Sadiq has a negative personal vote.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has sought to temper expectations, telling Sky News' Politics Hub: 'We are expecting to see significant losses. That often happens in local elections.'But he suggested that Mr Sunak's position was not in immediate jeopardy. Speaking on the Political Currency podcast, the former Tory Chancellor told his co-host Ed Balls, that the mayoral elections in West Midlands and Tees Valley will be crucial bellweathers.If Andy Street loses in the West Midlands that's pretty bad for Sunak. It might well provoke a lot of talk about a leadership contest.
The 35-year-old was forced to seek an emergency proxy and blamed his dyspraxia, a condition that affects sufferers' organisational skills.Tory MP forced to seek help with vote after losing photo IDIpswich's Tom Hunt confirmed he had been forced to act and blamed his dyspraxia, a condition that affects sufferers' organisational skills.Mail Online
21:40'Message was loud and clear', say Lib DemsThe Liberal Democrats, who are always competitve during the local elections, seem to be in a good mood before the results come in.The message across the country today was loud and clear. Voters want an end to this appalling Conservative government.People are sick of the Conservative party’s endless infighting, unaffordable mortgages, an NHS in freefall and filthy sewage being pumped into their rivers and seas.
While local elections are a different beast to national votes - turnout tends to be lower and people tend to vote on local issues - the Conservatives are hopeful of losing as few seats as possible, as opposed to winning more. 20:44Forget dogs at polling stations, now it's time for... donkeys?We've all heard of dogs at polling stations, but donkeys?
Most of these are to elect combined authority mayors, also known as metro mayors - politicians who will chair combined authorities made up of multiple council areas.There is also one mayoral election in the city of Salford.
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