ER Editor: There seems to be one clear message from England’s local elections, and that is about Starmer stepping down. In this orchestrated theatre, all we can say is ‘good luck to that’. We have Macron (v2.0) as testimony to that.
From Wikipedia about England’s local elections held yesterday. According to google, there are a total of 317 local authorities. 136 of those had elections or 43% —
The 2026 United Kingdom local elections were held on 7 May 2026 for 5,066 English councillors[6] for 136 English local authorities[4] (all 32 London borough councils, 32 metropolitan boroughs, 18 unitary authorities, 6 county councils, 48 district councils) and six directly elected mayors in England. Most of these seats in England were last up for election in 2022. Some of these elections were postponed from 2025.[7][8] No local elections (other than two by-elections) are being held in the rest of the United Kingdom, but elections to the Scottish Parliament and to the Welsh Senedd were held the same day.
Some tweets, although it’s a little early to call any firm results yet —
UK prime minister Keir Starmer is facing a dire set of election results, after Labour suffered heavy losses in English local council polls.
Follow our live blog for the latest developments: https://t.co/wGxVKusJgW pic.twitter.com/A4QFOuI55b
— Financial Times (@FT) May 8, 2026
Reform UK is currently leading the England council election results. (via the BBC) pic.twitter.com/iLr59DMS9u
— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 8, 2026
UK Council Elections 2026 Update🇬🇧🚨: Labour and Tories being MULLERED as Reform look to landslide record gains already. pic.twitter.com/fodS5xQCCS
— HIN News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) May 8, 2026
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Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains
Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch and Tamworth
JAMIE GRIERSON and MARK BROWN for THE GUARDIAN
The scale of the electoral challenge facing Labour has been laid bare as the party haemorrhages councillors at the local elections and Reform makes significant gains.
Keir Starmer’s party went into Thursday’s local elections expected to lose up to 1,850 councillors, with senior figures describing the contest as “tough”.
Initial results overnight painted a bleak picture for the prime minister, with Labour losing councillors in its traditional northern heartlands.
Reform took control of its first council at around 6am, gaining overall control of Newcastle-under-Lyme from Labour. The party’s leader, Nigel Farage, described the early results as a “historic change in British politics” and said his party was “scoring stunning percentages in traditional old Labour areas”.
The political scientist Prof Sir John Curtice told the BBC that while Reform was clearly winning the most votes in early counts, it had “probably not” reached 30% of the vote, an indication of the fracturing of British politics.
Curtice said: “It may well be now that Labour lose rather less than the 1,500 seats that perhaps some people said was potentially the tipping point for attempts to unseat Keir Starmer.”
He said: “[Reform] are basically being trailed by four parties that are all of them just a little bit below 20% or so, somewhere between 15 and 20%, but are actually at the moment quite difficult to disentangle.”
He added that the Greens were struggling to convert votes into seats because they were getting “far too many creditable second and third places”.
Reform were the runaway winners in north-east England. They won every single one of the 12 seats up for grabs in Hartlepool. It means Labour, which had a slim majority and was defending six seats, is likely to become the opposition.
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“It has been a terrible night for the Labour party,” he said. “What I’ve seen here is extraordinarily good, hard-working Hartlepool people lose their seats. I’ve seen canvassers working night and day in this election and it’s all been for naught and the reason has absolutely nothing to do with them.
“They are delivering for this town, they have been delivering for this town and the reality is we need change at the top of the Labour party.
“I think the very best thing the prime minister could do now is address the nation tomorrow and set out a timetable for his departure. We can then have an orderly transition, one that, by the way, ensures the full breadth of talent within the Labour party is able to stand, should it want to.”
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The Green deputy leader, Rachel Millward, told the BBC her party was optimistic about taking control of Hackney council in east London and said: “We will make some exciting breakthroughs … this will be seen as a step change moment for us as a party.” But she suggested that because of the electoral system the number of seats gained would not match the Green share of the vote across the country.
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In Halton, Cheshire, Labour held two of the 17 seats it was defending as Reform UK gained 15 councillors in the first council to complete its count on Friday. In some wards, Reform won with more than 50% of the vote in an area where last year it won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes.
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Featured image source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/08/starmer-urged-resign-labour-loses-hundreds-seats-reform/
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