What do local elections opinion polls suggest?
This year's local elections, which take place on Thursday 4 May in most of England outside London, have long been billed as a tough first electoral test for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Theresa May was struggling and ultimately failing to push her Brexit deal through the House of Commons. And just three weeks later, she announced her decision to resign as prime minister. This suggests there might be a four- or five-point swing from Conservative to Labour at these elections, compared with four years ago.
Despite having only a modest position in the national polls, the Liberal Democrats made just over 700 gains in 2019. All these smaller parties are now having to defend a strong performance four years ago - and thus, perhaps, should not set their sights too high this time around.What can results reveal about national party popularity?
Nevertheless, each year, BBC News collects and analyses detailed voting figures to estimate the "projected national share" - the share of the vote the parties would have won across the whole of Britain, if voters everywhere behaved in the same way as those who cast a local ballot.
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