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- The\u00a0Conservatives\u00a0are already suffering heavy losses in the council elections. According to the BBC\u2019s tally, they have already lost more than 100 seats.\u00a0Within the last hour\u00a0Prof Sir John Curtice<\/strong>, the BBC\u2019s election specialist, told the Today programme that the Conservatives were \u201cbasically losing half the seats they\u2019re trying to defend\u201d. He said if that continued, they could end up losing around 500 seats. He said the party seemed to be on course for \u201cone of the worst, if not the worst Conservative performance in local government elections for the last 40 years\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Labour has gained control of four councils: Rushmoor and Redditch, both from the Conservatives; and Hartlepool and Thurrock, both from no overall control.\u00a0<\/strong>The Conservatives have lost control of three councils. The full results are available\u00a0here.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The\u00a0Liberal Democrats\u00a0and the Greens have been celebrating gaining seats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
But most councils are yet to declare. Only 34 of the 107 councils were elections are taking place have declared. And none of the metro mayoral election results are in yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More to follow\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is the state of play for anyone just catching up with the Blackpool UK by election. But most councils are yet to declare. Only 34 of the 107 councils were elections are taking place have declared. And none of the metro mayoral election results are in yet. More to follow\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2735,6561,11215,10000,2512,6576,911,2264,8331,1828,324,5721,10634,11235,13301,1037,255,12605],"class_list":["post-42554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bbc","tag-blackpool","tag-by-election","tag-conservative","tag-conservatives","tag-democrats","tag-election","tag-government","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour","tag-labour-party","tag-losses","tag-lost","tag-reform-party","tag-results","tag-sir-john","tag-tory","tag-uk"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42557,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions\/42557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Labour has gained control of four councils: Rushmoor and Redditch, both from the Conservatives; and Hartlepool and Thurrock, both from no overall control.\u00a0<\/strong>The Conservatives have lost control of three councils. The full results are available\u00a0here.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n