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United Kingdom local elections (5/1/2025) thread

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Well, this kind of snuck up on me, didn't even realize the local elections were happening today until I read the Runcorn and Helsby thread. 😄

In any event.

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2025 United Kingdom local elections - Wikipedia

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According to Wikipedia (and their underlying source), the Tories will get shellacked, with Reform being the primary beneficiary. Labor is also expected to lose a significant number of seats.

In any event, we are just a few hours from results.
 
First results should start coming in around 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time.
 
First blood of the evening was three seats from Labour to Reform.

But don't worry, the Tories will be bleeding more heavily by the time its over.
 
As of 8:36 EDT.

With results in only from Northumberland (partial).

Reform is up 12, Tories down 2, Labour down 9, LibDem down 1.

Labour has lost half its seats on the council with more losses expected.
 
I honestly had no idea we just had a local election.
My area is a safe seat so my vote wouldn't have mattered but we had no electioneering here at all.

The amount of posters or signs about candidates is zero round here.
 
Peter said:
I honestly had no idea we just had a local election.
My area is a safe seat so my vote wouldn't have mattered but we had no electioneering here at all.

The amount of posters or signs about candidates is zero round here.
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There may not have been an election in your area.

21 County Councils, but elections in 7 were cancelled due to reorganization

Only 8 Unitary Authorities are having elections.

So a significant portion of England had no elections. And no elections at all in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
 
Word on the street is a result in the Runcorn by-election is close and that it is very close between Labour and Reform.
 
As of 9:50 pm EDT, Reform up 15 seats, Tories down 5, Labour down 9, LibDems down 1.

Results are exceedingly slow.
 
10:10 pm EDT

Reform up 34, Tories down 23, Labour down 10, LibDems down 1.
 
A Tory lawmaker has indicated the Tories are getting annihilated in Lincolnshire, but the results have not yet been released. Tories started the night with 50 of 70 seats.
 
Greater Lincolnshire Mayor result has Reform winning, absolutely destroying the Tories and all other parties in the process.
 
Safiel said:
Greater Lincolnshire Mayor result has Reform winning, absolutely destroying the Tories and all other parties in the process.
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Check that, just 1 of 9 council areas reporting so far, but those numbers will almost certainly extrapolate closely to the other 8 council areas, so I don't see any result other than an ultimate Reform victory.
 
Word is that Reform is ahead of Labour by just 4 votes in Runcorn and a full recount will be conducted.
 
On the basis of three councils called so far, BBC is calling the Greater LIncolnshire Mayorality race for Reform.
 
11:30 pm EDT

Reform up 51, Tories down 34, Labour down 13, LibDems down 1, Independents down 3.
 
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I will leave it at that until tomorrow. (Well, actually later today I should say.)
 
Peter said:
I honestly had no idea we just had a local election.
My area is a safe seat so my vote wouldn't have mattered but we had no electioneering here at all.
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How did you miss that?

Safiel said:
A Tory lawmaker has indicated the Tories are getting annihilated in Lincolnshire, but the results have not yet been released.
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Lincolnshire has been the heart of anti-EU feeling for quite a while now and has a lot of support for whatever party Farage leads at the time.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
How did you miss that?
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I've just recently got a new job so have been less up on the news recently but the coverage of the local election campaigns has been piss poor and I just didn't notice it.
Politics here is very different to the US and is understated anyway but this election has been the most low key ever as far as I know.

There's been more talk about the new series of Dr Who than this election.
 
No elections in Dorset either, though the "West of England" has a new mayor. Both main parties took a pasting, both Tory and Tory lite, but this nonsense about Reform being the "real" opposition remains just that. After yesterday, Farage has one more MP so he now needs two hands to count them all! There are 644 MP's who are not Reform in the HoC. Six is not a real opposition.
 
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As of 10:40 am EDT:

Reform up 495, LibDems up 91, Greens up 27, Tories down 465, Labour down 128, Independents down 19.

Reform up 7 councils, Conservative down 10 councils, No Overall Control (NOC) up 3 councils.

Tories did win a mayoralty in Cambridgeshire & Petersborough.
 
As of 1:30 pm EDT:

With 19 of 23 councils complete.

Reform up 601, LibDems up 151, Greens up 42, Tories down 600, Labour down 167, Independents (and others) down 24.

Reform up 7 Councils, LibDems up 3 Councils, NOC up 3 Councils, Tories down 13 Councils. Tories currently control ZERO of the completed councils.

All mayoralties have been decided. Labour held 3, Conservatives gained 1 from Labour. Reform took both of the newly created mayoralties.
 
Manc Skipper said:
No elections in Dorset either, though the "West of England" has a new mayor. Both main parties took a pasting, both Tory and Tory lite, but this nonsense about Reform being the "real" opposition remains just that. After yesterday, Farage has one more MP so he now needs two hands to count them all! There are 644 MP's who are not Reform in the HoC. Six is not a real opposition.
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Nigel Farrage is the man of the day.
 
It is important to note something at this point.

There are a total of 19,228 local government seats in total in the United Kingdom.

1,641 were in play at this election.

Only a relatively small number of governments had seats up at this election.

If this happens next year, it could be epic.
 
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