Reform, the most popular party in the country right now is on 25 per cent in the opinion polls. When Gordon Brown had a bad night for New Labour in the local elections of 2010 his party was polling at 29 per cent. Labour are in second place, at 24 per cent and the Tories are in third, at 22 per cent.
This is nearly unprecedented in the UK’s First Past The Post system. With 1,600 seats up for grabs, chaos looks to be the order of the day.
We will cover it all here. This ward-by-ward results map will tell you what’s happening in every council seat up and down the country. And, as the results pour in this page will be updated in-line with what’s happening on the ground. Keep the page refreshed.
Vote share by division
The detail
The map above visualises ward-by-ward election results. You can see how support has shifted for each party since these seats were last contested in 2021. The tooltip shows the vote share, the change since the last election, and the historic winners in each area.
(And for the nerds at the back: the vote share in multi-member wards employs the “top vote” method, which means that the highest-performing candidate from each party counts as that party’s “true” vote. As an example: if, in a three member ward, Labour’s candidates were to win 400, 420, and 410 votes, then the 420 vote figure would count as Labour’s “true” vote. An average would be too arbitrary, and adding them up to get a mega-figure would be redundant, for in multi-member wards, voters can – and almost always do – cast multiple votes.)
Collating the results will take time, but a spreadsheet of them will be made available upon completion.
This project was built, designed and maintained by Ben Walker. Please direct all bugs and corrections to him, at twitter.com/BNHWalker or ben.walker@newstatesman.co.uk
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