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2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votes

Loss | 0 | | Change | 0 | | Hold | 0 | ## Full council results \*Councils with ward boundary changes and/or seat number changes 0/136 councils declared ## Elected mayors There were six mayoral elections Awaiting result ### Croydon The list of candidates

After Burnham’s reign, battle begins for Greater Manchester’s mayoral crown

Labour. The pressure on Reform to win the mayoralty is high, coming off the back of three consecutive byelection losses. The party came second in Caerphilly in October, Gorton and Denton in February and Makerfield

Labour’s disastrous night puts focus on Keir Starmer’s future as leader

election results would be a perilous moment for the prime minister. Robert Hayward, the Conservative peer and polling expert, has predicted the party could lose approximately 1,850 councillors in England, while polls suggest

Birmingham is awash with local election candidates – but will result be a ‘coalition of chaos’?

Labour’s mayor in the West Midlands, Richard Parker, said the outcome of the council elections across the region were of crucial importance and would directly affect the delivery of his agenda. “We could

No 10 considered giving Doyle ambassador role, sacked official says

Labour councillor in Moray who admitted indecent child image offences in 2017. It came after the Sunday Times reported that Lord Doyle campaigned for Morton after he was charged with possessing and distributing indecent images

How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland

election said they felt someone different deserved a chance to move the dial. There is a risk then for Labour that these are not short-term losses but the tipping point in a longer decline

MPs from Labour’s left to urge Ed Miliband to consider leadership bid

election results, with some backbenchers adding their voices to calls for the prime minister to go. But matters began moving at speed, with West, a north London MP who was sacked by Starmer

Pressure grows on Starmer as more Labour MPs call for resignation – UK politics live

councillors in England and suffered humiliation in Wales,** but he made clear that he would not quit, saying **“tough days like this don’t weaken my resolve”.** Some Labour MPs have come out demanding

‘Starmer’s referendum’: How local elections could expose a fractured UK

councillors, while in Scotland and Wales, representatives of devolved parliaments will be elected. Typically low-stakes affairs, local elections are shaped less by national politics than by everyday concerns like potholes, bin collections and council

Why UK’s Makerfield by-election matters far beyond one parliamentary seat

elections, Simons said Labour was heading towards a divisive leadership contest with “no hope, no energy that anything would change”. He described Makerfield as “where Andy Burnham has lived for 25 years” and said

Lucy Powell says Labour has ‘no magic bullet’ as MPs brace for heavy losses in local elections

elections. [Lucy Powell](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/lucy-powell) told the Guardian she understood there was “huge anger and despondency” from Labour MPs in the aftermath of the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, but said the prime minister would

Lib Dems offer alternative to extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says

councillors in England, winning control of Stockport and Portsmouth council, and six seats in the Scottish Parliament. However, the party's gains were more modest than those of Reform UK and the Green Party

Burnham says he would seek to enter any Labour leadership contest

councillor, were among five of the 14 candidates in the by-election who appeared on Question Time in Makerfield. Asked about how politicians could restore public trust in them, Burnham criticised "point-scoring before problem

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

election results in which the party lost support to Reform UK and the Greens. However, his chances of staying in No 10 appeared to be diminishing on Sunday as about 40 [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour)

How Labour’s ‘terrible’ night unfolded as Reform surges and Greens and Lib Dems hail wins

councillors. Suffolk and Newcastle-under-Lyme followed, also claimed from the Conservatives, then Sunderland, from Labour. In the Scottish parliament and, particularly, the Welsh Senedd, Reform was hoping to make an equally dramatic advance

Sarwar says he will 'absolutely' stay on as Labour leader

losses across councils in England, Sarwar confirmed he is sticking by his February [call for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to resign](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89kwj8kjy9o). He said: "I said what I said back in February

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

losses, allies of Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham, two of Starmer’s potential leadership rivals, said they would keep their counsel and watch how events developed over the weekend. Wes Streeting was expected to speak

Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount

losses left him facing renewed calls to quit. Growing numbers of Labour MPs went public with calls for him to go over the weekend, with potential challenger Angela Rayner saying the party needed

British leader Keir Starmer under pressure after heavy election losses

losses for his ruling Labour party. With the bulk of results now counted after voting on Thursday, [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) had lost more than 1,400 representatives from English councils, the local government structures

How would a Labour leadership contest work?

councillors in local elections across England amid a surge for Nigel Farage's Reform UK, with the Greens also eating into the party's support. It was also kicked out of power in Wales, where