The Oasis Academy is being handed back for a day of teaching, all swept up an hour after result.

That's the end of our live coverage for now.

But the day is far from over, Wiltshire Council and Gloucestershire County Council will be counting their votes later today.

Stay with us for updates throughout the day.

Labour's Helen Godwin said she was "thrilled and excited" to have been elected.

"I really want to get going," she added. "I'm a little bit tired, I need some more time with the children to celebrate."

She added despite it being a close race between Labour and Reform, she is "really pleased" with the result.

"It gives us work to do, we have to find a way to speak to everybody but I'm really happy with the outcome," Ms Godwin said.

"It's such an important role."

Labour's Helen Godwin has won the West of England Combined Authority mayor role - but it was a close race between Labour and Reform.

Arron Banks said there was a “tidal wave” of support for Reform UK.

Speaking in Bristol after his defeat, he told supporters: “This was our least likely place to win and we came up 6,000 votes short.

“We have seen Reform victory after Reform victory.

“It looks like Bristol liked Banksy after all. And we beat the Greens.”

The result has been declared for the Weca mayoral election.

Banks 45,252

Godwin 51,197

Henman 28,711

Page 41,094

Scott 4,682

Smith 34,092

The results in Yate have been announced.

Just to be clear these are not the final results, we are still waiting to combine them with the Bristol votes and Bath and North East Somerset polling.

Banks 19,446

Godwin 12,442

Henman 9,137

Page 7,392

Scott 2,051

Smith 14,235

Labour candidate Helen Godwin has arrived at the count in Bristol. She’s the final candidate to arrive ahead of the declaration.

Labour MP for Bristol North East, Damian Egan, said they believe the election is close.

"We're all really hopeful for Helen, we have a fantastic candidate, she's worked really hard," Mr Egan said.

"People want change and the government is committed to delivering change. That's what we'll focus on."

Aaron Banks, Reform candidate, joking added: "I expected to win and go home by one o'clock.

"Actually, nobody has an idea what the result is but it's probably a better result than we were expecting here," Mr Banks said.

"I think there's a wider feeling of discontent with the bigger parties."

We haven’t been given the official result but counting is over in Bath and North East Somerset.

Sounds like it was pretty close between Lib Dems, Labour, Reform and Conservatives. Only around a couple of thousand votes between all four of those parties, I’m told.

The Lib Dems seem happy that their vote has held up in the area where they run the council. They’re not expecting to win overall tonight.

We are hearing from our correspondents that counting is slowly coming to a close.

In Bristol, our political reporter Hannah Miller said that counting is more-or-less finished, but we’re waiting for a few ballots to be adjudicated.

That’s when it’s not 100% clear who someone has voted for, so all the parties have a look to agree whether the vote can be added to a candidate’s pile or not.

We should be getting close to a result - but Hannah just asked, and the answer was ‘how long is a piece of string’.

Our reporter Martin Jones is at another count in Yate. He said they are currently checking already counted bundles of ballot papers, which means we are in the final stages before we get a result

And so we wait…

Here’s a nerdy fact to keep you awake / send you to sleep.

For the first time ever in a WECA election, the number of Bristol votes is lower than the number of votes from Bath and North Somerset and South Gloucestershire combined.

That’s because Bristol normally has a higher turnout, whereas this time it was 30% in all three areas.

So people in the West of England have been equally enthusiastic (or unenthusiastic) about voting, no matter where you live.

That’s potentially not great news for the Greens, who tend to pick up their votes in Bristol itself. But it remains too close to call.

PS. Please don’t go to sleep, if you’ve made it this far you should wait for the result

They’ve started to adjudicate potentially spoilt ballot papers here.

That means a result is getting closer.

Lots of the counters seem to have finished so that also suggests we’re coming to the end of the night.

That said, the South Gloucestershire result is only one of the counts taking place tonight and we’ll need all of them to make up the final result.

Shout out to the people who’ve come here to work overnight counting votes - without them, we’d never get a result.

Across two sites in Bristol tonight there are around 500 people involved in the counting - a whole range of ages and backgrounds. And still more in Bath and South Gloucestershire.

They do get paid (around £120 for the night) and they seem to be having a good time. But it's pretty anti-social hours, all in the name of democracy.

While we wait for results to come in, a quick reminder: only the Weca ballots are being counted overnight.

The counts are happening in Bristol, Yate and Thornbury.

Counting in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire will take place on Friday throughout the day.

Update from the media room, where a camera crew has pushed together three chairs and is somehow managing to nap.

Could be a wise decision to be fair. The result is not due for some time yet.

We’ll save him the embarrassment of a picture.

The verification of ballots has officially been completed and the counting can get under way.

The official figures have now been confirmed, with 682,951 people registered to vote and a turnout of 30%.

That is down from a turnout of 36.1% in 2021.

There were 137,357 ballot box votes and 68,200 postal votes.

Aaron Banks, candidate for Reform, came to Yate where ballots are being counted.

He said he was "very pleased" after having a look at the ballot papers around the hall.

"I think it's going to be a very tight race this evening and I think at this stage anyone could win," Mr Banks said.

"I think the key for the result this evening will be if the Tory voters back me rather than anyone else and I think there's still reason to be optimistic.

"To even be in the race is an achievement in itself."

“It’s too close to call” - I’ve heard that from at least three parties here tonight.

Counting hasn’t started yet, we’re still waiting for all the votes to be verified.

But often you’d get a bit of a sense by now of who was feeling happy or glum - no one is giving much away at the moment.

The authority gets money from the government for buses, training programmes and green infrastructure - this year they have £380m to spend.

In some other parts of the country, such as Manchester and London, the mayor has the power to raise money from council taxpayers to cover the services they provide.

That’s not the case in the West of England.

The Labour candidate Helen Godwin told Radio Bristol that at the moment, there is “no way” she could ask people to pay more for WECA.

The Reform and Conservative candidates have said they "would never do it", while the Greens and Lib Dems have suggested it might need to be considered.

They're handing out chocolates here at the South Gloucestershire count, to keep people's spirits up.

We're still waiting to find out which of the candidates will be having a celebration when the result is declared.