Check out a number of the important nationwide outcomes, as outlined by PA:
Hartlepool
Three years in the past, Labour misplaced the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election to the Conservatives. This 12 months, Labour received management of the council for the primary time since 2019 – because of a web acquire of seven seats, whereas the Tories misplaced six.
Harlow
Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner toured the Essex city of Harlow in the future earlier than the polling opened, in a symbolic go to to a key battleground on the normal election. Whereas Labour made progress, it fell wanting an total majority by a really slight margin, ending up with 16 seats, only one behind the Tories on 17.
Rushmoor
The so-called ‘blue wall’ of the normal Conservative heartland of Hampshire is just not so blue any extra. Labour gained seven seats and a majority on Rushmoor council, an space that features the military city of Aldershot, whereas the Tories misplaced eight seats and total management.
– Redditch
Labour picked up 9 seats and total management, whereas the Conservatives noticed their tally drop by 11.
South Tyneside
It was a much less cheery image for Labour in South Tyneside, the place the occasion suffered a web lack of 10 seats. Unbiased candidates gained 9 seats and the Greens gained two, whereas the Tories misplaced their solely councillor.
Labour nonetheless has a majority right here, however solely simply: the brand new council may have 28 Labour councillors, 15 Independents and 11 Greens.
Sunderland
Sunderland was one of some locations the place The Reform Get together fought each seat. Whereas the occasion didn’t win any of them, it beat the Conservatives into third place in 16 of the 25 seats up for seize,s whereas Labour made a web acquire of six to extend its snug majority.
Thurrock
This Essex council was one other certainly one of Labour’s prime targets in a key Conservative-Labour election battleground. The occasion wanted to realize six seats to take management of Thurrock, which has been run by the Tories for the previous few years throughout a interval of turbulence that noticed the council declared successfully bankrupt in December 2022.
Labour ended up making a web acquire of eight seats, sufficient for a transparent majority, with Independents selecting up two and the Tories struggling a web lack of 10.
