Local elections 2022

Voting took place across the region and the country today in what could be a crucial set of votes. The result of today's polls could have major ramifications ...

Key seats in the West and East to come however. Labour and The Conservatives have given eachother a good run for their money in a number of seats tonight. Labour's lead has been hacked away on Wirral, but it looks like they'll remain the largest group - just. We will have live updates running through the night and into tomorrow. These local elections could have a profound impact on the national political picture. The result of today's polls could have major ramifications both locally and nationally.

Thousands of seats have been up for grabs across England, Scotland and Wales while mayoral elections and Northern Ireland assembly votes have been taking ...

In England, around half of councils are expected to begin their vote counts overnight, with the remaining local authorities starting on Friday morning. After polls closed at 10pm, Labour chair Anneliese Dodds sounded a cautious note about the party's prospects, saying: "It's going to be a long night and there will be ups and downs - we hold the majority of the seats up for election in England, so never expected big gains." The elections decide who will be responsible for handling local issues such as planning, housing and rubbish collections - but wider national issues such as the surge in the cost of living have also come to the fore. Results, coming in over the next couple of days, could also prove key to the future of the prime minister - and whether rumblings of backbench discontent escalate into a chorus of opposition triggering a no-confidence vote. Voting has been taking place for councils in some parts of England, with more than 4,000 seats up for grabs, as well as across the whole of Scotland and Wales, each with more than 1,000 seats at stake. Meanwhile, in Wandsworth - a favourite council of Margaret Thatcher's which has been held by the Conservatives for 44 years - the mood is also bleak.

The key Tory councils Wandsworth and Westminster have been won by Labour on a bruising night for the Conservatives. Some Conservatives councillors have ...

I am not in any sense going to predict the result now, it's going to be a long night." When asked why he believes voters might be voting Labour for the first time, Mr Hug said: "As with every local election, a mix of local and national issues. We hear on the doorstep they were saying this is a local election about your council, not about Boris. But they didn't publicly go for the distancing, which is interesting." because those are people that are actually bearing the brunt on the doorstep of behaviour of what’s been going on in Westminster.” The borough's new Labour leader Simon Hogg promised to "build a compassionate council that truly listens, and keep that same low council tax". This year Labour has lost another seat to the Tories, in a part of the country that will be a key battleground at the next general election. For many years now, important decisions affecting the whole of our city have been made behind closed doors by just one person whom the public and elected councillors cannot easily challenge." The public have rejected this unaccountable model of government. Sunderland - While a poor performance by Labour might have seen the party lose overall control at Sunderland, a council it has run since 1973. The new line-up is 29 Lib Dems, 27 Labour and one independent - but no Conservatives Westminster had been in Conservative hands since the authority was created in 1964. Here are some of the key results in England so far:

Portsmouth has been a battle between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over the last few years. 22 councillors are needed for an outright majority, which no ...

And they have strengthened their grip on the city. 2022 results to be confirmed. This year, there are 13 seats up for election. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. because those are people that are actually bearing the brunt on the doorstep of behaviour of what’s been going on in Westminster.” 2022 results to be confirmed. We have actually lost some very good working community councillors this evening.”

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Our political team and Westminster Correspondent are Yorkshire's eyes and ears in the corridors of power. "All through my campaign...people recognise that they haven't had a voice. Councillor Hannah Kitching, who retained her Penistone West seat with a majority of 1,539, said: "We will continue doing exactly what we've been doing for the last four years, which is holding the Labour party in Barnsley to account, providing effective opposition, we'll continue to ask questions, put forward ideas of our own and make sure that our ideas for our residents and our communities are brought forward to benefit them all."

A summary of the local election results in the South East. | ITV News Meridian.

Thurrock is a unitary authority in Essex, meaning a single council runs all the local services. 2022 results to be confirmed. It has tilted between Conservative and Labour control in recent years but neither party has an overall majority. 2022 results to be confirmed. With 2 Liberal democrats and 1 independent, Labour just need 2 more seats to turn one of the most traditionally blue constituency red. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. 2022 results to be confirmed. They currently have 21 seats, which is 4 short of a majority. Tunbridge Wells has been Conservative run for the last 24 years, but this could change. 2022 results to be confirmed.

Labour has won Wandsworth and Southampton from the Tories, but lost Hull to the Lib Dems.

The new line-up is 29 Lib Dems, 27 Labour and one independent – but no Conservatives. Labour saw its majority at Nuneaton & Bedworth disappear in 2018 and the party lost more councillors in 2021, with the Conservatives taking overall control. But Labour kept its majority and lost just one seat, to the Liberal Democrats, who also gained a second seat from the Conservatives.

Voters have had their say in UK-wide elections, with positions on 200 councils - and the make-up of Northern Ireland's government - up for grabs.

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly are elected from parties belonging to one of three blocs: unionists, nationalists and non-aligned. London, which makes up about a third of all the seats being contested in England, will also be a key battleground. Last time this happened, in 2017, the Conservatives recorded their best local election performance since 1982, finishing second behind the SNP and ahead of Labour. In England, just over half of the councils began counting straight away, with the results announced overnight. The last time most of these seats were contested was 2018. Ballot boxes are taken from all the polling stations, to centres where staff open them up and start counting votes.

Counting of local election votes in Sheffield was delayed after staff at a polling station were threatened. Police were called to a venue in Fulwood on ...

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Welsh councils begin counting votes on Friday morning. The first results are expected around lunchtime and should continue until the early evening.

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Voters have gone to the polls in the North East and had their say in the latest local elections in Newcastle, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Sunderland and ...

See Gateshead's results in full by ward here. See North Tyneside's results in full by ward here. See South Tyneside's results in full by ward here. See Sunderland's results in full by ward here. It’s a significant contrast to last year, when the ruling party gave up a total of nine seats. See Newcastle's results in full by ward here.

The Liberal Democrats have taken back control of Hull City Council, ending a decade of rule by the Labour Party. The Lib Dems now control 29 of the ...

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Labour has won Wandsworth and Southampton from the Tories, but lost Hull to the Lib Dems.

The party failed narrowly to win control in 2014, while 2018 saw the council swing further towards the Conservatives. This time Labour has won a hefty majority of 19. Labour had hoped for signs of progress in Bolton, Greater Manchester, a council where they enjoyed a majority until 2019. But while the party has made three gains, it is still behind the Tories who now have 18 seats, with Labour on 16, the Lib Dems eight, Reform six and independents three. Labour saw its majority at Nuneaton & Bedworth disappear in 2018 and the party lost more councillors in 2021, with the Conservatives taking overall control. The new line-up is 29 Lib Dems, 27 Labour and one independent – but no Conservatives. But Labour kept its majority and lost just one seat, to the Liberal Democrats, who also gained a second seat from the Conservatives.

Labour joy in London, Tory fury at Johnson, and a good night for the Lib Dems.

Labour maintained its grip on Sunderland, and slowed the shedding of seats in recent years. But is steadying the ship in its former heartlands good enough given the government’s recent troubles? In the most significant result overnight, the flagship Tory council of Wandsworth fell to Labour. “Boris Johnson losing Wandsworth is monumental,” a Labour source said. John Mallinson, leader of Carlisle City Council, which will be replaced by the new Cumberland authority, told the BBC: “I think it is not just partygate, there is the integrity issue. Unsurprisingly, national issues were having an effect as dozens of Conservative councillors lost their seats across the country. The big war of spin in the next few hours is likely to be over whether Labour are making sufficient gains – particularly in the “red wall” seats that transformed the electoral map in 2019.

The Stevenage Local Elections 2022 results are in - with Labour gains in Old Town and Roebuck.

Bryan Clare - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 39 Mark Pickersgill - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 24 Mark Kerr - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 17 Helen Kerr - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 25 Roger Charles - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 50 Barbara Clare - Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts: 42

In Scotland, councils begin counting votes on Friday morning. The first results are expected around lunchtime and should continue until the early evening.

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The results are in for the Grange and Alver Valley ward. The results are in for the Elson ward. Results are in for Grange and Alver Valley ward, Gosport The results are in for the Alverstoke ward. Results are in for Elson ward, Gosport Results are in for Alverstoke ward, Gosport

Rory Sullivan talks to voters in Wandsworth while Maryam Zakir-Hussein takes the polling day temperature in Barnet.

The edge is entirely due to the fact that this is a council that people have loved and appreciated for 44 years,” he claimed. So I’m left with the two main parties and I don’t trust either of them.” For Susan, 60, the difficult thing was knowing which party to support. He added that a Labour victory was possible in the current political climate. “I’m not worried at all,” he said on Thursday, when asked whether he was concerned by the polls. For example, Finn, 26, said he would not vote. “It’s less blue than usual,” they said. However, their decision to vote on local issues alone was not a given. “I’ve lived here all my life and I never thought Putney would turn red – and it has done. “Wandsworth’s always been a well-run council. Speaking while voting was still under way, Hogg said the subject of Partygate came up often on the doorstep. “It’d be amazing.

Sir Keir Starmer says Labour is "back on track", but the party makes modest gains in councils outside the capital.

In Northern Ireland, all 90 members of the assembly were up for election. From the depths of the 2019 general election, we're back on track." Ravi Govindia, leader of the Wandsworth Conservatives, said: "Let's not be coy about it. The Conservative leader of Carlisle City Council, John Mallinson, said the prime minister "bears a lot of the responsibility" for the results and was a "poor option" to lead the party into the next general election. The full results - as well as those for councils in Scotland and Wales and for the Northern Ireland Assembly - will be announced later on Friday and on Saturday. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party had reached a "turning point" and was "back on track" to succeed at the next general election.

The party won Holbrook from Labour, with candidate Stephen Gray saying he was "honoured and humbled" at the win. Labour held on to the council overall, ...

"Since that day, Green parties have sprung up all over the world and Greens have been elected to every level of government, but it's only today that a Green has been elected in the city where this local movement first started." "This was the first party anywhere in the world to be founded on the principle that humanity can only truly prosper if we care for the planet we live on and the animals, plants and other life-forms we share it with. The Green Party made history in Coventry as it took its first seat on the council 50 years after the political group was formed in the city.

Wandsworth, Barnet and Westminster councils all turned red on Friday morning, although Sir Keir Starmer's party has only made modest gains elsewhere.

The Lib-Dems gained a wafer-thin majority in Hull, dislodging Labour who had run the council since 2011. - In Wales, Labour looking to take control of Blaenau Gwent from a group of Independents - Two key councils in West Sussex due to declare; Worthing, a top Labour target, and Crawley, where both the Tories and Labour are hoping to gain control Elsewhere, Labour failed to make many decisive gains. - Labour is hoping to retake Southampton from Conservative control and make gains in Derby - Labour and the Tories battling for control of Hartlepool and Peterborough

Labour maintained its stranglehold over Barking and Dagenham Council by winning all of the council seats once again.

Darren Rodwell (Lab) - 1398 (elected) Emily Rodwell (Lab) - 1494 (elected) Regina Rahman (Lab) - 503 (elected)

Voters have had their say in each of London's 32 boroughs - here are the latest results as each area declares the result throughout today.

Hounslow - LABOUR (hold) Enfield - LABOUR (hold) Camden - LABOUR (hold)

The Conservatives have lost control of three flagship London boroughs as Labour further strengthened its grip on the capital.

This is not an easy election to analyse: the picture is mixed and messy. "Voters in Wandsworth have put their trust in the change Keir Starmer's Labour represents." The elections decide who will be responsible for handling local issues such as planning, housing and rubbish collections - but wider national issues such as the surge in the cost of living have also come to the fore. A local Tory leader said the Labour victory in Barnet "does not bode well" for the Conservatives for a general election. While the Conservatives have seen a substantial drop in support in the south of England, Labour has seen a larger drop in the north. Victory in Barnet will also be seen as a significant accomplishment for Sir Keir and a potential sign of growing trust in the party's leadership.

Stockport Council remains under no overall control but the Liberal Democrats had a strong night at the polls and the Greens gained a seat.

Liz Crix becomes only the second Green Party councillor in Stockport’s history, emulating Gary Lawson’s victory 12 months ago. “Whoever leads that council is going to always have to pull together cross party support,” she said. She said: “We have seen our votes increasing across the borough. “We like to keep in touch with the residents, both through our newsletter and also we do a lot of door-knocking,” she said. I think that shows we have a vision in Stockport – you can see it happening – and you can see the people of Stockport recognising that.” “That has been the situation, and I guess that’s what we have been hearing a little bit on the doorstep – it was not a complete surprise.”

Residents from across St Albans and the district flocked to the polls on Thursday to cast their votes in the council elections, with results revealed today.

Boris Johnson faced criticism from local leaders for failing to address the cost of living crisis and Partygate scandal after losing London strongholds.

“From the depths of 2019 in that general election, back on track, winning in the north. He dismissed claims that Labour was on the path to power and put his full backing in the Prime Minister. The party lost several seats in Hillingdon, which is home to Mr Johnson’s constituency, and Woodford, which forms part of Iain Duncan Smith’s marginal seat. Labour gained the newly-formed Cumberland authority, which was previously Carlisle council. - In Scotland the SNP are doing well and have gained 27 seats so far. Cumberland! Southampton! We’ve changed Labour and now we’re seeing the results of that.” - Labour has made significant gains in London and has gained 162 seats and nine councils. The results from Scotland and Wales are expected later today He reaffirmed his view that the Prime Minister should call a confidence vote in himself. The leader of the Labour group of Barnet council, said the win was less of a reflection on enthusiasm for his party and more a reflection of disillusionment with the Tories. Speaking from Barnet, he described the local elections as the Labour party “turning a massive corner”, and added: “We’re winning in London we’re winning in the north and south in Cumberland in Southampton, we’ve got more results to come.” But the party has lost seats in Hull and areas of the Midlands and failed to make gains in major Red Wall seats

Labour wins overall control of West Dunbartonshire but the SNP also makes gains in the council elections.

It can take a few days for these arrangements to be made. - Councils change 0 - Councils change 0 - Councils change 0 If the presiding officer cannot be sure who the voter wanted to vote for, their ballot will be rejected. Some will blame Boris Johnson and Partygate or the cost-of-living crisis.

As Labour gains Westminster and Wandsworth, the BBC talks to voters in the two "true blue" boroughs.

"It's the lies and everything they say they didn't do and in the end had to admit to. I think it's disgusting, out of order and for him to deny it is even worse. "I voted Labour for the first time because the Conservatives have been hopeless, to put it mildly, both in the city and the country," she said. Rushing into work, she said: "This shows a complete lack of faith in the Conservative government and a real disgust for how the Cabinet and Tories in general have behaved. Rachel Hadley, from Wandsworth, said she was proud to have voted Labour and was "really pleased" with the result after decades of Conservative control. The teacher from Wandsworth said: "The Tories have been in power for 12 years and people are starting to get a bit sick of it.

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Tory councillors have demanded answers as voters turn their back on the Government.

“It was a pretty clear message on the doorstep. He reaffirmed his view that the Prime Minister should call a confidence vote in himself. He later told Sky News: “[Johnson] must shoulder a lot of the blame. Simon Bosher, the leader of the Conservative group, said Mr Johnson should “take a good, strong look in the mirror” because “those are people that are actually bearing the brunt on the doorstep of behaviour of what’s been going on in Westminster”. “Partygate, the cost of living crisis, the feel that the government were not in touch … and sadly I have to say the Prime Minister cannot be relied upon to necessarily to be telling the truth.” “I think it is not just Partygate, there is the integrity issue,” he told the BBC.