Council Results
England
94 of 146 councils counted
Scotland
4 of 32 counted
Wales
0 of 22 counted
This thread is certainly getting a lot of interest. 
Projected national share of the vote
Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert
With more than 700 of the BBC’s key wards now declared, we are estimating what would happen if the whole country had been voting in local elections on Thursday.
The outcome across Britain as a whole would have been:
- Conservative 30%
- Labour 35%
- Liberal Democrat 19%
- Others 16%
What this means
At 35%, Labour’s estimate simply matches that for the party in 2018, which was Jeremy Corbyn’s best set of local elections.
But it represents as much as a six-point improvement on its performance in last year’s local elections.
And the five-point lead that Labour enjoy over the Conservatives is the largest in any local election since 2012.
In contrast, at 30% the Conservatives are down five points on 2018 and six points on last year.
With the exception of the 2019 local elections when the party was battered by its divisions over the Brexit negotiations, this represents the party’s worst performance in a local election since before the EU referendum.
At 19%, the Liberal Democrat performance matches that in the 2019 locals, which had represented the party’s best performance in any local election since it entered coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.
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Labour have taken control of our local council (Kirklees) from NOC.
I expect the area to degenerate even further into a third-world shithole, with money spent on pet projects rather than what’s needed.
How strange - our local results show that the Tories actually increased their majority on our Council by taking another seat off the Labour Party.
No surprise here.
If starmer remains leader then Boris will win the next election.
Fact.
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I see that Conservatives have managed to hold on to a majority in North Yorkshire but they have gone from a comfortable majority of 54 seats out of the 72 to a slim margin in the new increased Council membership.
In preparation for the change to one unitary Local Authority next year, the County Council now has 90 Council members (an increase from the 72 they used to have) but the Conservatives did not pick up any of these extra seats. In fact, they ended up with 7 fewer seats than they had before - the Cons needed 46 seats for majority control and they just squeaked in with 47 seats - Labour and all the other parties who had candidates standing, including the independent group, increased their number of seats, with Lib Dems and Greens doing particularly well, compared to usual.
Conservative councillor Mark Crane said that despite the Cons taking control of the council the result was a disappointment as they had hoped to secure more seats
“Clearly there is a feeling against the current government and I think that’s played out in two ways” he said
“Number one is a lot of Conservative voters have stayed at home and number two, some Conservative voters - a smaller number - have shifted to one of the other parties and, in some cases, independents.”
It’s the rise of the ‘Greens’ that worries me. They chase silly projects and waste money trying to save the planet. They don’t care about the average person, and you think energy prices are high now. Just wait and see the damage they will do to the economy with their carbon neutral promises and job losses, and poverty will rise off the scale.
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Labour did worse than Ed Milliband, they are now the London Labour Party, propped up by virtue signalling champagne socialists and posh remainers. In working class (rest of) England they won fewer seats than the dems and greens. It’s a disaster for Starmer, if his perpetual lying over curry gate had been investigated and prosecuted before the elections he would been crucified.
The party for the working class is over.
Starmer was supposed to be a principled man 
he is a bigger liar than Johnson. Still, you may be lucky and get Wes Streeting then labour might be at least some sort of opposition instead of being nothing more than a ranting and raving, fake outrage protest party.
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“propped up by virtue signalling champagne socialists and posh remainers”
You forgot the many immigrants allowed to vote in local elections, but not in the general election (the one that matters). A true reflection of the popularity of the respective political parties will be revealed then.
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Yep !
Protest votes.
Starmer is celebrating failure again.
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