The political parties are braced for a big shake-up as votes are counted in the last test before the general election. Follow results for the Anglia region.
The results of the local elections for each council in the ITV Anglia region will be updated below as they come in
In the ITV News Anglia region, there have been election for 486 council seats across 18 local authorities. The Conservatives are defending 200 of those seats with Labour holding a little more than 100. The Lib Dems need three more gains to take power on the council they last ran with a majority in 2003. They took a 43% share of the vote in 2023 with the Conservatives winning 37% and Labour 15%.
The Conservatives lost their overall majority in 2021 after nearly two decades in power. Labour were left with no councillors in Castle Point but had enough between 1995 and 2003 to secure more than half the seats. At last year’s local elections when one-third of the seats were being contested, the Tories took a 48% share of the votes although that did represent a decline in share compared to 2019.
It is one of the newest cities in the country and has been run in turn by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats. It is currently a joint Lab / Lib Dem administration but prior to the elections Labour were within two seats of gaining an overall majority.At the next General Election, Milton Keynes will have three MPs instead of two and all three of the seats are Labour targets that the party must win to stand a chance of forming the next government.
In recent years it has been a straight-forward two horse race between Labour and the Greens in most city wards and Labour has enjoyed an overall majority for most of the time. At the General Election, Peterborough is the Labour party’s top target in the ITV News Anglia region needing a 2.5% swing to win although the parliamentary constituency is much smaller than the council area.The result for this election will be published here when it has come in.
It is a council that has flipped between Tory control and Lib Dem control over its history along with periods when no party had an overall majority. Southend has an independent party called Confelicity which has contested all the wards in the city in the past few years. In 2023 they gained 3% of the votes.The result for this election will be published here when it has come in.
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