UK local elections 2024 LIVE: Confident Labour win Sunderland and declare Hartlepool

There's a batch going connected tonight, but helpfully this adjuvant graphic should assistance you pinpoint what to support an oculus retired for and wherever the cardinal races whitethorn be.

Despite the number being evacuated owed to a mendacious occurrence alarm successful the building, the results are present successful in the East Riding of Yorkshire for Hull.

The Lib Dems person retained power of Hull City Council aft winning 33 seats, compared to Labour's 24.

With 19 results truthful far, we person already had immoderate cardinal results tonight:

Richard Tice, enactment person of Reform UK, is successful a bully temper aft promising results successful assembly elections.

Speaking to PA quality bureau successful Blackpool up of the declaration for the Blackpool South seat, helium said:

The candidates and enactment activists are gathering successful Blackpool arsenic they await the effect of the by-election which volition enactment a caller MP successful parliament.

However, they could beryllium waiting for a while, with immoderate estimates that the number mightiness not beryllium finished until 6am.

Labour are claiming triumph successful Rushmoor successful what they are calling a 'truly historical result'.

The country has been nether Conservative power since 2000 and has ne'er been nether Labour leadership.

A enactment spokesperson said: 'Rushmoor - the location of the British Army - has ne'er had a bulk Labour assembly before, and has been tally by the Tories for the past 24 years.

'This effect demonstrates conscionable however overmuch the Labour Party has changed and radical successful Rushmoor cognize that lone Labour tin present the alteration they privation to see.

'A Labour summation for Rushmoor is simply a effect Rishi Sunak cannot ignore. It’s clip for a wide election.'

Labour has kept power of Plymouth City Council aft making gains successful the 2 of the archetypal 3 seats to beryllium declared.

Peterborough, which has been nether nary wide power since 2019, is acceptable to enactment the aforesaid mode pursuing the latest results.

Going into the predetermination the Conservatives were the largest azygous enactment with 30 seats, but they've mislaid 5 of the 8 wards declared truthful acold tonight.

The Conservatives person mislaid power of North East Lincolnshire Council.

The Tories needed to triumph six seats to support control, but person had a dismal nighttime truthful acold aft winning conscionable 1 of the archetypal 8 to beryllium declared.

Labour person won 5 seats, with the Lib Dems and Independents gobbling up 1 each with 4 results near to come.

Labour person gained Thurrock, having gained 7 seats from the Conservatives successful the Essex assembly with 14 of 17 results declared.

They present person capable councillors to instrumentality implicit the assembly afetr it fell into nary wide power earlier this year.

In 1 of the quickest confirmed assembly results of the night, Labour has held Gateshead aft winning the archetypal 2 seats to beryllium declared.

Keir Starmer's enactment besides fancy their chances successful Thurrock, with expanding content they tin instrumentality the assembly from nary wide control.

Thurrock Council had been controlled by the Conservatives from 2021 to 2024, but it reverted to wide power earlier this year.

The Conservatives are defending 13 seats successful the Essex assembly tonight, compared to Labour's four.

A Labour spokesperson said it is 'exactly the benignant of spot we request to beryllium winning to summation a bulk successful a wide election'.

They added: 'The radical of Thurrock person sent the Conservatives a connection that they privation change.'

Labour person gained power of Hartlepool Council, it has present been confirmed.

Labour sources had been bullish astir their chances earlier successful the night, and the results person backed them up.

The enactment gained 8 seats - six fromt the Conservatives and 2 from the Independents to bring their full connected the assembly to 24.

Labour person retained power of Ipswich Borough Council.

Labour retained power of South Tyneside, but mislaid astatine slightest 7 seats to independents.

The enactment needed to triumph 4 seats of the 14 seats it held going successful to polling day, and portion it achieved that, its bulk volition beryllium reduced.

In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Labour won 12 of the archetypal 19 seats to beryllium declared aboriginal connected Friday morning.

The enactment held 46 of the 78 assembly seats going successful to polling time and needed to triumph 10 of the 27 being contested to clasp control.

The Liberal Democrats had won four, Greens 2 and independents one, with 8 seats inactive to declare.

The last effect successful Sunderland was Labour 18, Liberal Democrats 4 and Conservatives three, with Reform UK beating the Tories successful 16 of the 25 seats being contested.

Candidates from Southend, Blackpool and Peterborough eagerly expect the last vote.

The archetypal assembly to state its afloat effect this greeting was Broxbourne successful Hertfordshire, wherever the Conservatives won 9 and Labour 1 of the 10 seats being contested, meaning nary seats changed hands.

The Conservatives could not person mislaid power of the assembly immoderate the result, arsenic it started the nighttime with 27 of the 30 seats.

Cabinet curate Chris Heaton-Harris said the results successful Sunderland showed "if you ballot Reform, you get Labour".

The Northern Ireland Secretary told the BBC: "It's a precise straightforward equation for radical astatine the adjacent wide election.

"If they privation to ballot Reform, they'll extremity up with Labour MPs, and they'll extremity up with a Labour government, and past they'll extremity up, probably, with everything they didn't privation to ballot for based connected the illustration of Reform voters."

Labour activists and members of different parties are keeping a keen oculus connected the number successful Blackpool for the by-election tonight.

Labour assertion they person gained power of Hartlepool Borough Council tonight.

The assembly is presently of nary wide control, with a conjugation of Conservatives and Independents moving the medication astatine the moment.

A Labour Party spokesperson said:

Labour and Reform activists look to beryllium successful a bully temper successful Sunderland tonight.

Labour has kept power of Sunderland City Council and is taking seats from the Tories, portion Reform has beaten the Conservatives into 3rd spot successful a fig of wards.

A large communicative contiguous could beryllium the show of Reform UK, arsenic the enactment looks to instrumentality voters from some the Conservatives and Labour.

Polling guru Sir John Curtice told the BBC that its bully aboriginal results successful Sunderland should instrumentality into relationship the quality of the area.

'Above each this is simply a precise Eurosceptic portion of the country,' helium adds. 'It is besides determination wherever UKIP has done good successful section elections successful the past.

'We person present seen Reform outpoll the Conservatives successful each of the ward results we person got successful for Sunderland truthful far.'

He added that the enactment had managed tract candidates successful each ward successful the city.

'Perhaps a captious question is what is going to hap successful the bulk of wards wherever Reform is not present,' helium added.

Reform UK's person Richard Tice said his enactment was outperforming the Tories successful Sunderland.

'Outstanding aboriginal results successful Sunderland,' helium said. 'We expect to bushed Tories successful bulk of 25 seats successful Sunderland.'

In the archetypal fewer seats declared, Reform UK came 2nd down Labour.

Labour won the archetypal 4 seats to beryllium declared astatine Sunderland, to guarantee the enactment retains power of the council.

The enactment entered polling time with 47 of the 75 seats connected the council, and holding 4 of the 12 it was defending ensured it retained its majority. A full of 25 seats were being contested.

Our archetypal effect of the nighttime has travel from the northbound east, wherever Labour person kept power of the Sunderland City Council.

It is possibly unsurprising connected some counts - Sunderland has a estimation for counting votes quickly, and Labour has controlled the assembly for 50 years.

With much than 2,600 assembly seats up for grabs, it tin beryllium casual to suffer way of wherever you should beryllium looking for the results to travel in.

We've enactment unneurotic this database of battles to support an oculus connected - these see councils wherever the Tories mightiness beryllium looking nervously implicit their shoulders and mayoral elections that could beryllium a bellweather for the Conservative's General Election hopes.

This is erstwhile we tin expect the results from immoderate of the cardinal battles to beryllium announced:

Polling guru Sir John Curtice has said the Tories volition beryllium looking astatine a brace of mayoral elections to get a glimpse of what a General Election could clasp for them.

He told an Institute for Government lawsuit this week the Tories were emphasising 2 mayoral battles successful West Midlands and Tees Valley, wherever they are presently successful charge, 'because they deliberation they mightiness negociate to triumph the contention and truthful they'll beryllium capable to screen immoderate disasters hap elsewhere'.

He added: 'Because of the idiosyncratic votes of these two, (these contests are) going to beryllium the slightest reliable indicator.

'Equally, conversely present successful London, Sadiq Khan volition not bash arsenic good arsenic the Labour Party would bash successful a wide predetermination due to the fact that Sadiq has a antagonistic idiosyncratic vote. But this metropolis is present truthful beardown Labour, he's going to triumph anyway.'

Turnout successful section elections tends to beryllium little than successful nationalist polls and this whitethorn beryllium the lawsuit again this clip round.

The caput of the Association of Electoral Administrators, which organises section elections, has said radical moving astatine the polls had a 'quiet' day.

Peter Stanyon said:

As counting takes spot and we await the archetypal results, possibly present is simply a bully clip to instrumentality a look astatine astir apt the astir fashionable show connected predetermination time - dogs astatine polling stations:

The temper among the elder Conservatives is not 1 of optimism, with suggestions they could suffer hundreds of assembly seats.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has sought to temper expectations, telling Sky News' Politics Hub: 'We are expecting to spot important losses. That often happens successful section elections.'

Tory adjacent and polling adept Lord Hayward said: 'I expect the Tories to suffer upwards of 400 seats.'

But helium suggested that Mr Sunak's presumption was not successful contiguous jeopardy.

'In caller days I person been near with the precise wide content that, amongst Tory MPs, the 'let's person a enactment election' balloon has been substantially deflated,' helium said.

However, 'an audible, precise small, radical volition disagree and astir apt bash truthful early'.

While astir of the counts contiguous are for assembly and mayoral elections, the outlier is successful Blackpool South, wherever residents person voted for a caller MP.

The ballot successful the constituency was organised aft the erstwhile Tory MP Scott Benton resigned.

He had been taxable of a callback petition aft helium was suspended for 35 days pursuing allegations helium told undercover reporters helium would beryllium consenting to lobby ministers connected behalf of gambling firms successful instrumentality for money.

It means the coastal constituency is up for grabs erstwhile more, 5 years aft it swung Conservative successful the 2019 General Election.

George Osborne has claimed Rishi Sunak could look 'Armageddon' if results spell against him tonight.

Speaking connected the Political Currency podcast, the erstwhile Tory Chancellor told his co-host Ed Balls, that the mayoral elections successful West Midlands and Tees Valley volition beryllium important bellweathers.

He said:

Counting is continuing crossed the country, with volunteers hard astatine enactment successful Southend-on-sea (top), Peterborough (middle) and Sunderland (bottom).

The 2 frontrunners to beryllium Mayor of London person tweeted retired their acknowledgment to voters who came retired and had their accidental successful the superior today.

Under rules brought successful by the Tory Government everyone wanting to ballot successful today's section elections, arsenic good arsenic aboriginal General Electiosn, indispensable instrumentality phot ID with them to a polling station.

The alteration whitethorn person caught immoderate radical out, including Tom Hunt who misplaced his signifier of recognition contempt being the Conservative MP for Ipswich.

The 35-year-old was forced to question an exigency proxy and blamed his dyspraxia, a information that affects sufferers' organisational skills.

You tin work the afloat communicative here:

The ballots are already being counted successful the Blackpool South by-election, wherever candidates are vying to regenerate Tory MP Scott Benton who resigned earlier this year.

The constituency had been a harmless Labour spot earlier Benton's predetermination successful 2019, wherever the Conservatives received 49.6% of the ballot and won with a bulk of 3,690.

However, the omens aren't looking bully for different Tory triumph tonight, with forecasts suggesting it volition plaything backmost to Labour.

The Liberal Democrats, who are ever competitve during the section elections, look to beryllium successful a bully temper earlier the results travel in.

The party's person Sir Ed Davey said:

Labour appeared assured astir their chances earlier the polls closed, and fixed the voting forecasts, not galore would reason their bullishness is misplaced.

Labour person held a pb successful the polls implicit the Conservatives for much than 2 years arsenic radical crook sour connected the Tory-led government.

One caller canvass suggested Labour could summation 44% of the ballot astatine the adjacent General Election, with the Tories wallowing connected 18%, squeezed by Reform UK polling astatine 15%.

While section elections are a antithetic beast to nationalist votes - turnout tends to beryllium little and radical thin to ballot connected section issues - the Conservatives are hopeful of losing arsenic fewer seats arsenic possible, arsenic opposed to winning more.

Labour are successful a assured temper aft the closure of the polls, and accidental they are expecting to triumph seats successful cardinal battlegrounds.

Pat McFadden (pictured beneath extracurricular Westminster this morning), Labour's National Campaign Coordinator, said:

Polls person present closed successful today's section elections.

If you were capable to get successful enactment earlier the timepiece deed 10pm, past enactment arsenic you volition beryllium capable to vote.

The archetypal results are expected to travel successful by 12.30am.

Sadiq Khan got successful connected the dogs astatine polling stations enactment erstwhile helium and his woman Saadiya brought their canine on with them to ballot this morning.

His Tory rival Susan Hall besides went retired to ballot this greeting astatine her section polling presumption successful Hatch End, arsenic polls springiness the incumbant a important pb implicit his Conservative challenger.

We've each heard of dogs astatine polling stations, but donkeys?

People heading to ballot successful the colony of Godshill successful the New Forest this greeting were greeted by an ass stood extracurricular their polling station.

It's unclear whether his proprietor was wrong oregon the donkey was trying to formed its ballot successful the territory election.

While the contention to go Mayor of London unsurprisingly takes the astir attention, determination are 10 different mayoral races taking spot successful England today.

Most of these are to elite combined authorization mayors, besides known arsenic metro mayors - politicians who volition seat combined authorities made up of aggregate assembly areas.

The pursuing regions are holding these polls today:

There is besides 1 mayoral predetermination successful the metropolis of Salford.

While galore voters volition formed their ballot successful their section colony hallway oregon school, immoderate radical successful Cambridge had a somewhat antithetic experience.

Due to issues accessing the Milton Road Library successful the morning, radical who turned up to ballot were told they had to bash truthful from the backmost of a volunteer's car.

Among the biggest votes taking spot contiguous is the London mayoral election.

Labour politician Sadiq Khan headed to the polls contiguous looking for a 3rd four-year word successful complaint of Britain's astir populous city.

He is facing contention from a big of candidates, including Conservative Susan Hall, Reform UK's Howard Cox, the Green Party's Zoe Garbett and Liberal Democrat Rob Blackie.

The afloat database of London mayoral candidates is arsenic follows:

One of the astir comforting sights connected predetermination time is the dogs of Britain sitting extracurricular the polling presumption portion their owners caput wrong to formed their vote.

With polls closing astatine 10pm, you mightiness beryllium forgiven for reasoning it could instrumentality a portion for the results to travel through.

And portion it whitethorn instrumentality immoderate clip for the larger votes to beryllium confirmed, the archetypal assembly results could travel conscionable aft midnight.

There volition beryllium a dependable trickle of results done the night, with councils successful Hartlepool, Sunderland, Bolton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Portsmouith, Southen-on-Sea and Exeter each expected to delcare earlier 3am.

The effect successful the Blackpool South by-election should beryllium announced by 4.30am.

However, larger votes specified arsenic mayoral and PCC elections volition instrumentality longer than this, with Londoners having to hold until Saturday for their mayoral predetermination effect to beryllium confirmed.

One of the astir absorbing things astir voting time is the assortment of wherever Britain's polling stations are really located.

Whether it beryllium a section cafe (top), a Salvation Army bureau (second top) oregon a colony hallway (bottom), it seems there's astir nary obstruction erstwhile it comes to uncovering determination to vote.

Polling stations crossed England and Wales opened astatine 7am this morning, giving the volunteers who tally them from your section church, schoolhouse oregon societal nine an aboriginal start.

Despite that, much than 12 hours aboriginal they are inactive unfastened and if you haven't voted yet you inactive person the accidental to get retired and bash so.

Polling stations don't adjacent until 10pm and arsenic agelong arsenic you successful enactment by the clip the timepiece strikes the hr you'll beryllium capable to formed your vote.

It's a large time for radical with an involvement successful however their section country is run. This is what's connected the line:

Good evening and invited to MailOnline's unrecorded sum of the UK section elections.

Millions of radical person gone to their section polling stations contiguous to marque their ballot number successful council, mayoral and PCC elections.

There's adjacent a by-election taking spot connected what could beryllium a chastening nighttime for the Conservative Party, with predictions they could beryllium successful enactment for large losses crossed the country.

It volition beryllium a nighttime afloat of intrigue and present astatine MailOnline we'll bash our champion to support you abreast of each the developments arsenic they happen.