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Reform UK has picked up control of ten councils in the local elections in England, as well as winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes and taking two newly-created mayoralties. Reform UK has made huge gains in local elections held across England on 1 May, taking control of 10 councils and winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes.
Reform gained Lincolnshire, Staffordshire , Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire and Kent councils from the Conservatives, and picked up Doncaster from Labour. Durham had been under no overall control. Labour and the Conservatives both suffered their biggest local election defeats, failing to hold on to any of the councils they controlled before the election.
The Liberal Democrats have also gained scores of council seats, taking control of Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire. The Greens have more than doubled their number of council seats. The Liberal Democrats picked up scores of seats and gained control of three councils, while the Greens more than doubled their number of councillors.
England's two new mayoralties, in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire, both went to Reform. The six mayoral contests were more of a mixed picture, with Labour retaining three mayors, Conservatives gaining one and Reform UK picking up the two newly-created mayoralties.
Labour managed to retain its three mayoralties in Doncaster, North Tyneside and the West of England.
The Conservatives have lost control of 12 councils but won the race for mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough from Labour.
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With all councils declared, Reform has picked up hundreds of seats right across England. Reform UK swept to victory across England with 31% of the vote, gaining a majority in 10 areas.
The Liberal Democrats and Greens are also making gains overall, with most of the losses falling to the Conservatives and to Labour. The party took Doncaster from Labour and eight councils from the Conservatives: Derbyshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire. In Durham, there had been no party majority.
"Once true-blue Tory England now looks primarily like a mixture of Reform fiefdoms and Lib Dem islands of support," said polling expert Sir John Curtice. The Liberal Democrats gained control of Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Shropshire, and made gains elsewhere.
Reform's council seat gains are spread around the country, with large concentrations in the Midlands and the North East. Both Labour and the Conservatives lost two thirds of their council seats, their worst local election performance on record. The Conservatives lost control of all 15 councils they held before the election.
The Lib Dems have gained seats in parts of the South and South West. Some of Reform's biggest victories were in former Conservative-controlled areas such as Staffordshire, Kent and Lancashire, where the party went from having no councillors elected in 2021 to holding a majority.
Projected national share The Lib Dems' big gains were in Shropshire, as well as parts of the South and South West.
On the basis of the results in over 1,100 council wards, the BBC is estimating that Reform would have won 30% of the vote if a nationwide election had been held on Thursday. The Conservatives' biggest losses were in Kent and Staffordshire. For Labour, Durham and Doncaster saw the biggest falls in the number of seats.
This assumes that the places that did not have elections mirrored the behaviour of those that did, and that all the main parties contested all the seats. What if there had been elections for every council?
New mayors The collapse in support for Labour and Conservatives in these 23 council elections indicates that the traditional main parties' grip on voters may be loosening.
In Greater Lincolnshire, former Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns, who defected to Reform in November, will become the area's first mayor. She beat her closest opponent, Conservative Rob Waltham, by almost 40,000 votes. The BBC's projected national share, an estimate of how the country would have voted if everywhere had had a local election, shows the Conservatives in fourth place.
Paul Bristow becomes the new Conservative mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Labour and Conservatives would attract only 35% of the vote between them, a historic low.
Mayoral races
Mayoral elections were fought in six areas of England, with two being elected for the first time.
Reform won both of the new positions, in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire.
Andrea Jenkyns - a former Conservative MP who defected to Reform in November - became the first mayor of Greater Lincolnshire after gaining 42% of the vote.
Labour retained three of the mayors they held: Doncaster, North Tyneside and the West of England.
Reform were a close second in all of them, coming within a thousand votes of winning both North Tyneside and Doncaster.
There was some comfort for the Conservatives in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with Paul Bristow winning comfortably ahead of a close race between Labour, Reform and the Liberal Democrats.
Closest by-election
The Westminster by-election in Runcorn and Helsby added some drama to the results, with a recount in the early hours of Friday.
At daybreak, Reform's Sarah Pochin won the seat from Labour, recording the narrowest victory of any parliamentary by-election: just six votes.
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