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What happened overnight?
Here is the
state of play for anyone just catching up with the overnight results.
Labour has won the Blackpool South byelection
with a swing of 26 points from the Conservative. It is the third largest Tory
to Labour swing ever. Almost as ominously for the Conservatives, they only
managed to beat Reform UK by 117 votes. Keir Starmer described this as a
“seismic win” and a “truly historic result”.
The Conservatives are already suffering heavy
losses in the council elections. According to the BBC’s tally, they have
already lost more than 100 seats. Within the last hour Prof Sir John Curtice,
the BBC’s election specialist, told the Today programme that the Conservatives
were “basically losing half the seats they’re trying to defend”. He said if
that continued, they could end up losing around 500 seats. He said the party
seemed to be on course for “one of the worst, if not the worst Conservative performance
in local government elections for the last 40 years”.
Labour has gained control of four councils:
Rushmoor and Redditch, both from the Conservatives; and Hartlepool and
Thurrock, both from no overall control. The Conservatives have lost control of
three councils. The full results are available here.
The Liberal Democrats and the Greens have been
celebrating gaining seats.
But most councils are yet to declare. Only 34 of
the 107 councils were elections are taking place have declared. And none of the
metro mayoral election results are in yet.
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