Local election results 2024 live: Labour hails big wins as Sunak holds onto Tees Valley victory

With round 675 of the BBC’s key wards now declared, the BBC is estimating that, if the entire nation had had an election on Thursday and behaved in the same method to these locations that did, the result can be:

• Labour: 34%
• Conservatives: 25%
• Lib Dems: 17%
• Others: 24%

This result’s just like final yr’s estimates, although each the Conservative and Labour figures are down 1%, whereas the Lib Dem’s is down by 3%.

At 25%, the Tory determine is at an equal file low, final recorded in 2013. They had been additionally at that degree in 1995.

Which means that the Labour lead over the Conservatives is 9 factors: the identical as final yr.

The soundness of the lead is in line with the message of the polls that little has modified during the last 12 months within the measurement of Labour’s lead, apart from that assist for the Conservatives might have eased somewhat.

The Lib Dems can be lower than completely happy, having seemingly suffered a fall of their assist on final yr, though the 17% determine is just like what the occasion has been successful within the projected nationwide share for the reason that EU referendum in 2016.

On the 24% for others: The Greens account for as a lot as half of that whole.