Local elections 2023: Remaining outcomes anticipated in subsequent few hours – and what we all know to date

Votes are nonetheless being counted on this yr’s native elections in England.

The results have been coming in waves with all councils anticipated to declare by 8pm on Friday.

Elections had been held in 230 of England’s 317 councils, inside district, borough, county borough and unitary authority councils, together with 4 mayoral elections in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough.

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This is your information to what we all know already – and what’s left to be careful for.

The story to date

• Labour have gained six councils from the Conservatives. The first was Medway. It was established as a brand new council in 1997, however even throughout its landslide victory, Labour couldn’t win it outright.

• Labour additionally took East Staffordshire from the Tories’ small majority, profitable 11 seats. And their focused marketing campaign to take Swindon from the Conservatives paid off too.

• The celebration’s win in Erewash, Derbyshire is a optimistic signal for his or her hopes of a General Election victory. The Conservatives had held it since 2003.

• Labour additionally took Bracknell Forest, seen as one of many UK’s most right-wing new cities, from the Tories with 18 new seats, in addition to Dover, which had been underneath Conservative management since 2007.

• The Liberal Democrats gained 4 councils from the Tories. They gained Windsor and Maidenhead, with the Conservatives shedding 16 seats – three to independents and 13 to the Lib Dems. This is the bottom variety of seats the Tories have ever had in Windsor, in a dramatic shift for former Prime Minister Theresa May’s parliamentary constituency.

• Sir Ed Davey additionally celebrated a “blue wall” upset in Dacorum, Hertfordshire, taking it from Conservative management for the primary time in 20 years to construct on by-election outcomes there.

• The Lib Dems additionally gained 13 seats to take Stratford-on-Avon from the Conservatives, most of which lies in former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi’s parliamentary constituency.

• And they took South Hams from the Conservatives, gaining 9 seats whereas the Tories misplaced two.

• The Green Party gained management of a council in England for the primary time, profitable Mid Suffolk.

• The Conservatives misplaced management of 25 councils to no general management – Tamworth, Brentwood, Hertsmere, North West Leicestershire, East Lindsey, South Gloucestershire, South Kesteven, Welwyn Hatfield, Maidstone, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, West Devon, North Warwickshire, Tewkesbury, Pendle, Central Bedfordshire, Runnymede, Wealden, Staffordshire Moorlands, Melton, Charnwood, East Suffolk, Broadland and Newark and Sherwood.

• East Hertfordshire additionally went from the Conservatives to no general management, with big beneficial properties for the Greens, who gained 17 seats because the Tories misplaced 23.

• Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool, Middlesbrough, North East Derbyshire, Broxtowe, High Peak in Derbyshire Gravesham and West Lancashire all went from no general management to Labour.

• Middlesbrough now additionally has a Labour mayor after Chris Cooke took the submit from an unbiased incumbent.

• The Liberal Democrats gained 22 seats in Mid Devon to take it from no general management. The Tories misplaced 12 seats there, whereas independents fell by 11. They additionally gained Teignbridge because of Conservative losses – regardless of not gaining any new seats themselves – and in Chichester.

• Hartlepool, remained underneath no general management regardless of each events seeking to seize a majority – after Boris Johnson secured a by-election victory within the parliamentary seat in 2021.

• Bolton stays underneath no general management, however Labour made 5 beneficial properties whereas the Conservatives misplaced seven seats. It is one among a number of Metropolitan Boroughs the place the rise of native unbiased teams has affected the flexibility of 1 celebration to grab a majority. There had been additionally no modifications in Sheffield, which remained no general management.

• The Conservatives misplaced seven seats to no general management in Bromsgrove, former chancellor, well being and residential secretary Sajid Javid’s parliamentary constituency, which has been Tory-held since 1983.

• There have solely been two Conservative beneficial properties to date. Torbay, the place they gained 5 seats to take it from no general management, having misplaced their majority in 2019, and Wyre Forest from no general management, the place the unbiased celebration Health Concern is not fielding as many candidates as beforehand.

• The Conservatives held all three of their West Midlands battlegrounds in Walsall, Solihull and Dudley. Walsall was a key measure of progress for Labour and its bid to win the subsequent General Election.

• The Tories additionally fought off Lib Dem competitors to carry East Cambridgeshire in a victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s celebration.

• Labour’s solely general loss was Slough, which has develop into no general management. The Conservatives at the moment are the biggest celebration there after Labour misplaced 17 seats.

• Labour didn’t win the 4 seats they wanted in Burnley, which remained no general management together with North Hertfordshire and Darlington.

• Sir Keir Starmer’s celebration held Gateshead, however his bid to extend the bulk there didn’t materialise, with the Lib Dems gaining two seats from Labour.

• Labour gained three seats to carry Rossendale and likewise retained management of Knowsley and Manchester.

• Sir Peter Soulsby was re-elected as Labour mayor of Leicester, however with a a lot decreased majority after a 17% swing to the Conservatives.

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• There had been no modifications in Watford, the place the Lib Dems held, or in Milton Keynes, which is run by a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition.

• Wokingham and Tunbridge Wells remained no general management.

• There had been questions round Elmbridge in Surrey, the place cupboard ministers Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove each have their constituencies, but it surely remained no general management, regardless of Lib Dem beneficial properties within the space.

What’s nonetheless to come back

• The outcomes of the Mansfield mayoral election are additionally nonetheless due.

• The closing rush will start at 6pm – however by this level, we’ll possible have a good suggestion of the general image. Those to declare on this wave will embody Lancaster, New Forest, South Derbyshire, West Suffolk and Bedford.

• Waverley is predicted to declare at round 6pm. In May 2019, the Liberal Democrats got here inside six proportion factors of the Tory complete – however gained solely 14 seats in comparison with 23 for the Conservatives. The Lib Dems shall be hoping to make beneficial properties and seats to construct stress forward of the final election.

From 8pm

• The final result’s anticipated to come back from York, which is at present run by a Liberal Democrat and Green coalition. Labour is hoping to make beneficial properties.