Local elections 2025 in maps and charts

Reform UK has made immense gains successful section elections held crossed England connected 1 May, taking power of 10 councils and winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by conscionable six votes.

Labour and the Conservatives some suffered their biggest section predetermination defeats, failing to clasp connected to immoderate of the councils they controlled earlier the election.

The Liberal Democrats picked up scores of seats and gained power of 3 councils, portion the Greens much than doubled their fig of councillors.

The six mayoral contests were much of a mixed picture, with Labour retaining 3 mayors, Conservatives gaining 1 and Reform UK picking up the 2 newly-created mayoralties.

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Reform UK swept to triumph crossed England with 31% of the vote, gaining a bulk successful 10 areas.

The enactment took Doncaster from Labour and 8 councils from the Conservatives: Derbyshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire. In Durham, determination had been nary enactment majority.

The Liberal Democrats gained power of Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Shropshire, and made gains elsewhere.

Both Labour and the Conservatives mislaid 2 thirds of their assembly seats, their worst section predetermination show connected record. The Conservatives mislaid power of each 16 councils they held earlier the election.

Some of Reform's biggest victories were successful erstwhile Conservative-controlled areas specified arsenic Staffordshire, Kent and Lancashire, wherever the enactment went from having nary councillors elected successful 2021 to holding a majority.

The Lib Dems' large gains were successful Shropshire, arsenic good arsenic parts of the South and South West.

The illness successful enactment for Labour and Conservatives successful these 23 assembly elections indicates that the accepted main parties' grip connected voters whitethorn beryllium loosening.

The BBC's projected nationalist share, an estimation of however the state would person voted if everyplace had had a section election, shows the Conservatives successful 4th place.

Labour and Conservatives would pull lone 35% of the ballot betwixt them, a historical low.

Mayoral elections were fought successful six areas of England, with 2 being elected for the archetypal time.

Reform won some of the caller positions, successful Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire.

Andrea Jenkyns - a erstwhile Conservative MP who defected to Reform successful November - became the archetypal politician of Greater Lincolnshire aft gaining 42% of the vote.

Labour retained 3 of the mayors they held: Doncaster, North Tyneside and the West of England.

Reform took 2nd spot successful each 3 contests, coming wrong a 1000 votes of winning some North Tyneside and Doncaster.

There was immoderate comfortableness for the Conservatives successful Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with Paul Bristow winning comfortably up of a adjacent contention betwixt Labour, Reform and the Liberal Democrats.

The Westminster by-election successful Runcorn and Helsby added immoderate play to the results, with a recount successful the aboriginal hours of Friday.

At daybreak, Reform's Sarah Pochin won the spot from Labour, signaling the narrowest triumph of immoderate parliamentary by-election: conscionable six votes.