UK Local Elections, 4th May 2017

[Terry the Fat Shark]

FYI in case anyone needs a link to the results pages:

England - http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/42069d65-f3b1-41e2-b3e9-35ac9d799a1a/england-local-elections-2017
Scotland - http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/8201e79d-41c0-48f1-b15c-d7043ac30517/scotland-local-elections-2017
Wales - http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/3c6a4e42-9efd-4440-89df-647121c87452/wales-local-elections-2017

[Bono]

Gwynedd all out, it's a Plaid hold:

Plaid Cymru 41 (+4)
Independents 26  (+7)
Labour 1 (−3)
Liberal Democrat 1 (−1)
Llais Gwynedd 0 −13

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Labour holds North Tyneside Mayor

[jaichind]

Corbyn talking point should be: In England I beat Brown from 2009, in Wales I beat Brown from 2008, and in Scotland ... well ... Brown is from Scotland you see ...

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Peter Kellner, the elections expert and former YouGov president, has just told the BBC that the latest share of the vote figures suggest that the Conservatives are on course for their best result in local elections while they are in government since 1979. They could be doing even better than the Tories did during the local elections held at the time of the Falklands war, he says.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

North Ayrshire (Scotland) Hung Council, Tories gained 6 seats, SNP lost 4 and Labour lost 2 seats respectively, SNP and Labour tied at 11

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Tories gain Norfolk from No Overall Control

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Denbighshire No Overall Control hold (Wales)

[Terry the Fat Shark]

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 UKIP has taken a seat  in Lancashire

UKIP finally got a seat

[Bono]

Denbighshire No Overall Control hold (England)

Check your map again.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Denbighshire No Overall Control hold (England)

Check your map again.

fixed, blame the BBC

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Aberdeen (Scotland) stays NOC but SNP takes over as largest party, SNP gained 3 seats, Labour lost 9 seats, Tories gained 8 seats, Lib Dems lost 1 seat.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Stirling (Scotland) NOC Hold
Tories and SNP tied at 9 seats each (tories gaining 5 seats) , SNP lost 1 seat, Labor lost 4 seats

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The slogan for the SNP should have been "Make Scotland Ulster Again" tbh.

[Bono]

Perth and Kinross all out, and it's the best thing even:


Conservative 17 (+7)
SNP 15 (−2)
Liberal Democrat 4    (−1)
Independent 3 (−1)
Labour 1 (−3)

[Bono]

Full Denbigshire results (NOC Hold):

Conservative 16 (+8)
Labour 13 (−6)
Plaid Cymru 9 (+2)
Independent 8 (−4)
Liberal Democrat 1 (=)

Quite a contrast to nearby Flintshire.

[Bono]

Inverclyde (NOC Hold):

Labour 8 (−3)
SNP 7 (=)
Independent 4 (+3)
Conservative 2 (+1)
Liberal Democrat 1 (−1)

Renfrewshire (NOC Hold):

SNP 19 (+2)
Labour 13 (−11)
Conservative 8 (+7)
Independent 2 (+2)
Liberal Democrat 1 (=)

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Tories gain Leicestershire from NOC (England)

[Bono]

Derbyshire (CON gain from LAB):

Conservative 37 (+19)
Labour 24 (−19)
Liberal Democrat 3 (=)

[Hnv1]

Rotherham wins the Greater Liverpool mayoral race with an impressive 59% of the vote in the first round, on the other hand the Tories came second with an absolute nobody who hardly campaigned.

Steve Rotheram (Lab) 171,167 (59.30%)
Tony Caldeira (C) 58,805 (20.37%)
Carl Cashman (LD) 19,751 (6.84%)
Tom Crone (Green) 14,094 (4.88%)
Paula Walters (UKIP) 11,946 (4.14%)
Roger Bannister (TUSC) 7,881 (2.73%)
Tabitha Morton (Women) 4,287 (1.49%)
Paul Breen (Jury) 729 (0.25%)

if you look closely you can see the Wirral seats going to the tories next month

[Bono]

East Lothian (NOC Hold):

Labour 9 (+1)
Conservative 7    (+4)
SNP 6 (−3)
Independent 0 (−2)



Labour's Steve Rotheram wins Liverpool City Region Mayor.

[Hnv1]

so can we dispel this myth of a LibDem surge? this night has been as abyssal to them as it was to Labour

[Hnv1]

Tory Andy Smith wins first round in the West Midlands race, now a run off with Labour's Sion Simon, I think Labour will edge it.

Andy Burnham looks to set to win Great Manchester in the first round with over 50%

[Bono]

Midlothian (NOC Hold):

Labour 7 (-1)
SNP 6 (−2)
Conservative 5    (+5)
Green 0 (-1)
Independent 0 (−1)

[Bono]

In contrast to the county's lazy performance, the local press have been amazing with their election website:
https://sites.google.com/jpress.co.uk/elections2017/local-elections