Local elections results in full: Live map for every seat across England, Wales and Scotland
While voters across the country are waiting for the results of the elections to be held today in England, Scotland and Wales, the results of this year’s local elections have started to arrive.
Competitions were held in 136 local authorities across the UK, including some of the largest cities and the whole of London. A mix of urban authorities and rural districts, as well as various provincial councils, also held elections.
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These are the biggest local elections held in the country in the last three years and are an important test for all political parties.
At the same time, elections were held in Scotland for the Scottish parliament and in Wales for members of the Senedd. The results for these are expected to be announced later on Friday.
Most of these seats were last up for election in 2022, when the Conservative government led by former prime minister Boris Johnson fell behind Labor in opinion polls and lost support following the Partygate scandal.
This was also reflected in the results of the 2022 local elections, where Labor, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens made gains at the expense of the Conservative Party.
Reform UK contested only a small number of council seats in 2022, winning just two.
The situation was very different at last year’s local elections, when Nigel Farage’s party won 677 seats, taking its total number of councilors to 804. The biggest losers of the night were the Conservatives with 674 seats, while the Labor Party lost 187 seats.
Mr Farage is hoping for similar success in this year’s election, as polls show the ‘big two’ parties will once again suffer huge losses.
While more than half of the seats up for grabs this year are defended by Labour, reflecting the party’s current strength in London and the Metropolitan boroughs, just over a quarter are made up of Conservative defences.
This marks a difference from the 2025 election, when the Conservative Party defended the largest number of council seats and most of these contests were for district councils where the party is dominant.
Of the 5,013 English council seats contested this year, 2,557 are defended by Labor, 1,362 by the Conservatives, 684 by the Liberal Democrats and other parties (including independents) 410.
In Scotland, a total of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament were up for grabs; voters were electing 73 constituency representatives and 56 MSPs through eight regional lists.
Meanwhile, 96 members will be elected to the Welsh Parliament in the Senedd elections. The announcement of the results of both competitions is expected to begin on Friday afternoon.
