The political parties are braced for a big shake-up as votes are counted in the last test before the general election. Follow results for the Anglia region.
The results of the local elections for each council in the ITV Anglia region will be updated below as they come in
The Lib Dems need three more gains to take power on the council they last ran with a majority in 2003. They took a 43% share of the vote in 2023 with the Conservatives winning 37% and Labour 15%. There have been boundary changes in Castle Point meaning the whole council is being elected instead of the usual third. There will be 39 councillors elected - two fewer than now.Colchester remains a hung council with the Green Party making a single seat gain while the Liberal Democrat fell back by one seat.
There have been boundary changes in Epping Forest meaning the whole council is being elected instead of the usual third. There will be 54 councillors elected - four fewer than now.Harlow's Conservative majority has been knocked back to the narrowest margin of just one seat as Labour made four gains from the Tories. Harlow had been a key Labour target as the party leader Sir Keir Starmer paid a visit to the Essex town a day before polling stations opened.
In the May 2023 local elections, the Liberal Democrats took more votes overall than either Labour or the Conservatives. Peterborough is a unitary council where all the parties struggle to maintain an overall majority for any length of time so quite often informal pacts and arrangements are made between different groups.
It is a council that has flipped between Tory control and Lib Dem control over its history along with periods when no party had an overall majority. Southend has an independent party called Confelicity which has contested all the wards in the city in the past few years. In 2023 they gained 3% of the votes.Stevenage is the only council in the ITV News Anglia region on which one party has had an overall majority throughout its entire history since local government re-organisation in 1973/4.
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