2023 UK Local Elections

[JimJamUK]

I’ll be staying up so hopefully this thread will be some use to fellow posters. BritainElects is probably your best source for results, unless you feel like venturing into English local council websites (do so at your own risk).

PS: I wouldn’t bother trying to watch TV sources, they tend to be very spin heavy.

[Torrain]

Political editors all going for some variation on "Lib Dems ecstatic, Tories worried, who knows whether Labour will do 'well enough'..."

[Oryxslayer]

BBC results map when it becomes relevant

[JimJamUK]

Political editors all going for some variation on "Lib Dems ecstatic, Tories worried, who knows whether Labour will do 'well enough'..."

Robert Peston claiming that Labour may be struggling in “ex Red Wall Brexiter Midlands and north”. Well if the Tories are collapsing and the Lib Dems are doing well (disproportionately in the ‘Blue Wall’), then where the hell are the Tories losing votes to in these places then (and where are Labour gaining)?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

By this point it has become a thing that certain people in the media simply say for forms sake, I think.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And we're off: it's actually a local by-election, but Labour have gained Chester-le-Street East (Durham) on a very large swing from 2021.

[JimJamUK]

Big Labour gain. This is one of the Toriest wards in Durham (and the Green vote won’t have been completely closet Labour fwiw).

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1654243010773671936?s=61&t=I1DE8_cg...

[Duke of York]

Big Labour gain. This is one of the Toriest wards in Durham (and the Green vote won’t have been completely closed Labour fwiw).

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1654243010773671936?s=61&t=I1DE8_cg...

Hopefully it’s a harbinger of things to come.

[JimJamUK]

Small drop in the Tory vote, nothing too catastrophic. Caution, the first (?) Sunderland result to declare last year was relatively good for Labour (as in not just minimal losses), so obviously need to see more.

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1654249099611238400?s=61&t=I1DE8_cg...

[Oryxslayer]

Small drop in the Tory vote, nothing too catastrophic. Caution, the first (?) Sunderland result to declare last year was relatively good for Labour (as in not just minimal losses), so obviously need to see more.

This was one of the expected Sunderland gains, since they win it last year and the state of the opposition wasn't perfect. This is the ward where the guy elected as UKIP became tory I believe. I'm more interested in the Lib-Dem or Tory wards, and just how many fall.

[JimJamUK]

Redhill ward also a very easy gain for Labour from UKIP, with a better swing from Con to Lab. interestingly, Reform are 2nd on 15% which would indicate some people are finally actually voting for them (caveat that Sunderland council was in 2019 the sort of place where scores of people voted for anyone, and I mean anyone, who wasn’t from the big 2 parties).

[JimJamUK]

The first few results from Sunderland look largely much better for Labour than 2019, but not necessarily too much change from last year. It’s a special place and more to come of course.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1654251849464070145?s=20

First Lib-Dem ward.

[TheTide]

Silksworth and Houghton are also comfortable Labour holds.

[Oryxslayer]

First non-Sunderland result is from safe-Labour urban Halton.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

General pattern of the Sunderland results so far are pretty ominous for the Conservatives, to whatever extent that means much. Substantial drops on last year in most wards; miles out of contention in some where they've been close in recent years, including polling less than half Labour's vote in a ward they came within an ace of winning in 2021.

[Oryxslayer]

BBC's coverage is live.

[JimJamUK]

First non-metropolitan result. Pretty big swing from Lib Dem to Conservative. Probably absolutely meaningless.

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1654257402017988608?s=61&t=I1DE8_cg...

[TheTide]

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1654258535159529473?s=20

[JimJamUK]

Labour gain Barnes in Sunderland, which they haven’t won since 2016.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Labour have gained the Barnes ward in Sunderland, which is a relatively notable result to the extent that individual ward results can be.

[TheTide]

The Tories have won a ward somewhere according to the BBC graphics. Not sure exactly where.

Edit: St Peter's in Sunderland.

[Oryxslayer]

Labour have gained the Barnes ward in Sunderland, which is a relatively notable result to the extent that individual ward results can be.

Off the Tories, and so the fun begins.

[JimJamUK]

The Tories have won a ward somewhere according to the BBC graphics. Not sure exactly where.

Their safe ward in Sunderland, albeit not very impressively.

[TheTide]

Lib Dems make their first gain of the night - Fulwell in Sunderland from the Tories.