Local election results 2025: How many seats Labour won or lost in each council – and its position in each mayor race

As polls closed in the 2025 local elections on Thursday night, Labour was quick out the block issuing a downbeat warning from party chair Ellie Reeves: “These elections were always going to be a challenge.”

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for election across 24 local authorities, along with four combined authority mayors and two other mayoral positions in North Tyneside and Doncaster.

A national poll by More in Common ahead of the election put Reform ahead on 26%, with the Conservatives on 25% and Labour third on 18%.

Follow our tracker of how many council seats Labour has gained, lost or held as counting progresses.

2025 mayor election results for Labour

Lost

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (third place, Conservative win)
• Greater Lincolnshire (third place, Reform win)

Held

• Doncaster
• North Tyneside
• West of England

Council elections

• Buckinghamshire: yet to declare
• Cambridgeshire: currently up one
• Cornwall: currently no change
• Derbyshire: currently down nine
• Devon: currently down seven
• Doncaster: yet to declare
• Durham: currently down 38
• Gloucestershire: currently down three
• Hertfordshire: currently no change
• Kent: currently down two
• Lancashire: currently down 19
• Leicestershire: currently down two
• Lincolnshire: currently down one
• North Northamptonshire: yet to declare
• Northumberland: down 12
• Nottinghamshire: currently down six
• Oxfordshire: currently down one
• Shropshire: currently no change
• Staffordshire: currently down four
• Warwickshire: currently down one
• West Northamptonshire: yet to declare
• Wiltshire: currently down two
• Worcestershire: currently no change

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Read more on the 2025 local elections:

Results on the day

Analysis and what to expect

• Runcorn blame game begins – why did Labour lose?
• ‘Labour has lost in Runcorn – here are the eight things the party should do now‘
• MPs who could lose their seat on Runcorn by-election swing to Reform
• ‘Results so far say one thing: voters think change isn’t coming fast enough’
• Three ways to measure Labour’s success tonight
• Expert predicts ‘bad night’ with no net Labour gains
• ‘Uxbridgitis: If election results are grim, let’s not learn the wrong lessons again’
• Where’s Keir? PM barely features in Labour party election broadcasts for the locals
• The meme elections: Labour’s social media pivot to take fight to Farage

LabourList’s on-the-ground reports from the campaign

• Hull and East Yorkshire: Labour candidate spars with Reform’s boxing star in UK’s most disillusioned city
• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Nik Johnson on why he’s standing down and Anna Smith on knife-edge Labour-Tory fight to replace him
• West of England: Tory and Green threats, Dan Norris and low voter awareness
• Lancashire: Long shadow of Gaza looms over key battleground

Inside the Runcorn campaign

• Mood on the doorstep: Labour’s last push for Tory voters to keep out Reform
• At least 150 Labour MPs visit – but Keir Starmer ain’t one
• Karen Shore interview: Labour candidate on Reform, the NHS and closing asylum hotels
• Runcorn poll: One in ten Labour voters expected to back Reform

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