Local elections results- what is happening in your neck of the woods?

Lots of good news.

Re Cambridgeshire - there is a tendency for university areas to be more radical, its not just the Uni, as I believe there is a lot of new hi tech stuff developing in the area. Where my DS lives the city with an old Uni is Labour, surrounded by blue rosette.

Sunak moan alert...about 2 days before the elections he said how on average Conservative councils charged £80 less council tax than Labour Ones. is he really so blind not to see that a good many of those Labour councils are in urban deprived areas with high levels of social need?

Not a lot to be proud about

. I'm sure councils do sometimes waste money and other grumbles but when it comes down to it they have to fund social care, homelessness, social housing, and other results of social deprivation. Its one thing grumbling about potholes when there are houses and floats with mould in they can't afford to keep up to scratch.

growstuff

HurdyGurdy

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Apparently our count is taking place today, and wasn't overnight.

I suspect we'll still overall be Conservative, but I'm expecting to see more independent Councillors.

Well well well. What was always a strong Conservative area now has an Independent Council!

Conservatives - 23 seats
Labour - 5 seats
Independents - 31 seats
Lib Dems - 5 seats
Green Party - 1 seat

According to my husband (who didn't even bother to vote that means that nothing will get done, as the Independents will all be arguing amongst themselves.

We'll see - interesting times ahead.

That looks like a hung council to me.

Sorry, meant to say "mainly Independent" council. Got ahead of myself

No elections where I live and we have an invisible Tory MP.

Here in Manchester Labour have retained overall control of the council but have lost seats to the Libdems and the Greens. While Manchester is not ever going to turn Tory, these results seem to indicate Labour may not achieve the majority it wishes in the General Election, but could possibly just be the largest party.

Grantanow

No elections where I live and we have an invisible Tory MP.

A diversion, sorry. But do you do is you have such an MP. I would request an appointment at his surgery, again and again, and expose him/her. Why do people accept 'an invible MP'- they are elected and paid to do the job - don't let them get away with it.

Wyllow Students don't tend to live in Cambridgeshire, although some of the staff most certainly do. The City of Cambridge has a separate council and MP. South Cambridgeshire is semi-rural, wealthy and "leafy". The parliamentary constituency was safely Conservative until 2019, when the LDs targeted it and came within a couple of thousand votes of winning.

We have had a Lib Dem mayor for 14 (?) years, after a recount we have a Conservative mayor.

I live in the Mid Suffolk District Council area
I will go and hide