Local election results 2025: How Labour did in each council and mayor race
The moment polls closed in the 2025 local elections on Thursday night, party chair Ellie Reeves issued an…
By-election
Runcorn and Helsby by-election defeat: Results breakdown, analysis and reaction
Labour’s Karen Shore has lost the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, after battling out a knife-edge fight with Reform…
Runcorn and Helsby by-election results: Recount ordered with ‘four votes in it’
A full recount has been ordered in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, with speculation just four votes could…
Runcorn and Helsby by-election: Labour candidate Karen Shore petitions to close asylum hotel after right-wing criticism
Labour’s candidate in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election has launched a petition to close a local hotel used…
Labour longlists Runcorn candidates as Amesbury to quit, triggering by-election
Labour is longlisting candidates this week for the looming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, which now looks almost certain…
‘Reform Revealed’: Labour targets Farage in Runcorn with salvo of Facebook ads
Labour has begun rolling out a new wave of anti-Reform adverts in potential by-election seat Runcorn and across…
Runcorn special report: Could anger at MP and Labour risk by-election loss?
Beneath the shadow of the UK’s largest waste incinerator, a small town on the banks of the river…
2024 local election results on Friday: Labour wins key councils and new mayors despite Tees and Gaza troubles
***This live-blog of Friday’s results is now closed. We’re posting the latest results, updates, reaction and analysis on…
Blackpool South by-election results: Watch new MP Chris Webb’s speech after 3rd biggest swing since WW2
Labour’s Chris Webb has won an important victory in the one Westminster by-election being held amid local elections,…
Local elections 2024: Live polling day updates as activists urged to give mayor candidates final push
Voters up and down the country are heading to the polls today in the last set of local…
