2023 UK Local Elections

[Oryxslayer]

Full flip in East Staffordshire - 11 Labour gains and 8 Tory losses.

[Torrain]

As of 1pm:

• Total number of council seats to be filled: 8,063
• Total number of seats now filled: 2,183
• 80/230 councils declared

We’re only 1/4 of the way there…

[Torrain]

Conservatives lose Bromsgrove to NOC.

[Oryxslayer]

Tories are getting full swept in Swindon, called a Labour gain even with a good number of seats left to declare.

[Alcibiades]

Just like 2022, these results seem very encouraging from an anti-Tory tactical voting perspective. The Labour, Lib Dem, and Green surges are respectively pretty efficiently distributed.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Conservatives lose Bromsgrove to NOC.

LibDems beat them in the more upmarket parts of Bromsgrove town, while Labour did well in the downmarket and white-flighty bits of it and also the very similar areas immediately south of Birmingham. They still held on to their rich commuter-rural base, but...

[Logical]

LAB gain Erewash from CON.
https://twitter.com/BBCDerby/status/1654465818384556032
The winning party in the Erewash parliamentary constituency has formed government since 1983.

[Oryxslayer]

Tories lose Cannock Chase to NOC off a Labour surge. Seems likely a Labour-Green govt here.

Conservatives hold East Cambridgeshire (Ely) by the skin of their teeth.

Labour retake the majority in Blackpool from a minority.

[MillennialModerate]

The local elections show what I suspected - talks of a Labour MAJORITY were greatly exaggerated. A good night for Labour? Yes. But the night they needed for a majority? Unlikely. And the night they needed for a landslide? Surely not.

Too bad couldn’t have been an election after Truss was PM.

[TheTide]

The local elections show what I suspected - talks of a Labour MAJORITY were greatly exaggerated. A good night for Labour? Yes. But the night they needed for a majority? Unlikely. And the night they needed for a landslide? Surely not.

Too bad couldn’t have been an election after Truss was PM.

Please, kindly, shoo.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/BalancePowerUK/status/1654474788809654274?s=20

[Serenity Now]

I voted around 1.30pm in Brighton & Hove, it wasn't busy at my Polling Station. The 'vibe' I'm sensing here is that the Green vote is largely holding up compared to 2019 but I think the national trend will mean enough Labour vote gains / Conservative vote losses for Labour to leapfrog the Greens in terms of seats to win a minority on the council. I feel they will fall short of a majority though.

I am incorrect if rumours circulating the local press* are anything to go by, whereby apparently the Green leader is at risk of losing his seat to Labour (which would be harbinger of a Labour majority or even landslide). The ward in question is Brunswick & Adelaide, which was voted reliably Green the last few local elections, although would almost certainly have voted Labour in recent general elections as it was in the Hove Constituency. It may well be the first ward to declare in the city.

*I would share some links but the websites are horribly cluttered with ads..

[Oryxslayer]

Darlington mirrors neighboring Hartlepool: Labour get exactly 50% of seats which means the council is still NOC but effectively is all but a Labour majority.

Lib-Dems gain Dacorum, 13 Tory losses.

[JimJamUK]

Labour expected to gain Bracknell. They started the night with 4 seats taking on a massive Tory majority, but the non-Tory parties very clearly coordinated nominations. In retrospect, they may actually regret how kind they were leaving the whole of Bracknell town itself to Labour who now will probably not even need Lib Dem or Green support!

[YL]

Almost nothing happened in Sheffield.  The Lib Dems held all the seats they were defending (including the ward I live in), Labour won Nether Edge & Sharrow from the Greens and the Greens won Hillsborough from Labour.  So in terms of council composition it is as you were.

I think Labour will be disappointed given how many targets they had and that they fell back in most of them, the Lib Dems very pleased, and Greens mixed.

Elsewhere in South Yorkshire, in Barnsley the Tories lost Penistone East (to Labour) and thus didn't win a single seat for the first time since 1998.  But Labour lost a seat in Kingstone to the Lib Dems, who seem to be very good at winning the wards they target there.

[EastAnglianLefty]

The local elections show what I suspected - talks of a Labour MAJORITY were greatly exaggerated. A good night for Labour? Yes. But the night they needed for a majority? Unlikely. And the night they needed for a landslide? Surely not.

Too bad couldn’t have been an election after Truss was PM.

Congratulations, you are clueless enough to get a job as a UK political journalist.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

What happened in slough?

[afleitch]

What happened in slough?

It went bankrupt and had a massive council tax rise.

Regardless of the national picture, very local results like these still happen.

[Oryxslayer]

What happened in slough?

Local financial chaos and mismanagement, aka the usual explanation for extraordinary outliers. Liverpool is one of the largest Labour councils, but it faces similar issues so keep an eye on it, and Leicester is racked with Labour infighting and perceived racism. Those I think are the three areas for big potential Labour losses.

Rugby and Pendle both fall to NOC, theoretically Lab+Lib should lead both areas, but Rugby tied at 21 between those two and the Conservatives.

[Oryxslayer]

Torys got swept in battleground Milton Keynes, losing even the rural areas.

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1654485074119729152?s=20

Labour make big gains in NE Derbyshire, Torys won a majority in 2019, lost in to infighting between then and now, and now the Labour majority is back.

[Logical]

Labour gains North East Derbyshire and is expected to gain South Derbyshire. Very good results in a region that has swung away from them in recent years.

[Oryxslayer]

Labour gains North East Derbyshire and is expected to gain South Derbyshire. Very good results in a region that has swung away from them in recent years.

South Derbyshire is technically under a Labour admin though, so I'm interested to see how the Con-> Labour supporting indies do with a redder electorate.

It did however protent well for Broxtowe, 12 Lab Gains and a majority.

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1654491593531879426

[Oryxslayer]

If this came in a few hours earlier, it would be the headline for the night. Progressive alliance on candidate standings paid dividends, Labour government for the first time in like 30 years.

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1654491593531879426

[Oryxslayer]

Labour Gain Middlesborough from the 2019 indie intake.

Staffordshire Moorlands falls to NOC after Labour decimates the Localists, passing the Tories for largest party.


Lib-Dems didn't make enough gains in Wokingham to take overall control.

Lib-Dems make big gains in Elmbridge off the many localists, now are clearly in the drviers seat in Esher & Walton constituency.

Labour majority in High Peak.