Local elections results in full: Live map for every seat across England, Wales and Scotland
Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would continue as prime minister despite Labor’s disastrous local election results, while Nigel Farage hailed a “big historic night” after Reform UK made huge gains across the country.
Reform UK has won more than 1,200 councilors across the country, capturing 14 councils so far; Labor lost control of 35 councils and saw the mayoralty in Hackney go to the Green Party.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party also lost after 27 years in power in Wales, with first minister Eluned Morgan losing her seat.
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.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) retained its status as Holyrood’s largest party but failed to secure an overall majority. The final result gave the SNP 58 seats; Labor and Reform took 17 seats, the Greens 15, the Conservatives 12 and the Liberal Democrats 10.
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Mr Farage’s party won control of Havering, giving the party its first London council seat.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives took Westminster City Council from Labor and took overall control of the council, also making gains in Wandsworth.
The Conservative Party also became Wandsworth’s largest party and retained no overall control.
But Labor’s grip on the city remained firm elsewhere. Sir Keir Starmer’s party edged Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing, Hounslow, Barking and Dagenham, Camden, Islington, Greenwich and secured a narrow win in Merton, which pollsters suggested could go to the Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats appear to be on track to record council gains for an eighth consecutive year so far, gaining more than 150 councillors, taking control of Stockport and Portsmouth and becoming the only party on Richmond upon Thames Council, but they have lost their slim majority in Hull.
The Green Party won mayoralties in Hackney, Lewisham and Waltham Forests, and has won four councils so far.
It is the country’s biggest local election in three years and marks a major test for all political parties, especially Labor, as Sir Keir Starmer faces increasing questions over his leadership of the party. But the prime minister insisted he “will not go and plunge the country into chaos”.
Elections were held in Scotland for the Scottish Parliament and in Wales for members of the Senedd.
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 in last year’s local elections, when 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.
John Swinney said he was “confident” his SNP would emerge as the largest party at Holyrood as his Scottish Labor rival Anas Sarwar effectively conceded defeat, and said his party was “hurt” by not “winning the debate”.
With the SNP in power in Scotland since 2007, the party looks set to win a record fifth consecutive term in government in Edinburgh.
It comes after the party made gains from other parties in the early results of the Holyrood election and won the seat of Shetland, which had been held by the Liberal Democrats since the start of devolution.
The SNP also won the Eastwood constituency outside Glasgow from the Scottish Conservatives – although here Mr Swinney’s party was perhaps helped by the rise of Reformation. The Conservative vote fell by more than 10%, Reform took 9% of the vote, and as a result former SNP MP Kirsten Oswald was elected to Holyrood.
