ELECTIONS: ACROSS the country, Labour has lost more than 200 councillors.
Among Tory wins are Trafford, Tamworth and Brentwood while in Pendle Lib Dems are celebrating victory. But both parties have suffered council losses.
The London mayor and assembly counts will come on Friday and European election counting starts on Sunday.
Only around 80 out of the 166 councils holding elections have declared the results.
Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle are among the big cities not announcing their results until Friday.
Labour has lost control of the former mining area of Bassetlaw for the first time since 1979, as well as suffering defeats in Burnley, Hastings, Oxford and its traditional stronghold of St Helens.
It also lost control of Swansea, as the first Welsh results came in.
But the party won Stoke-on-Trent, tightened its grip on Barrow-in-Furness and, despite seat losses, held Manchester.
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