The Local Democracy Reporting Service's Carmelo Garcia is there.

Speaking after the result in Bath and North East Somerset, the Bath MP Wera Hobhouse said the Conservative party led a 'negative' campaign which led to their poor results.

Dan O'Brien
Political reporter, BBC Radio Wiltshire

The Conservatives have run Swindon Borough Council for 20 years, but Labour have thrown everything at it this year to win back.

With Sir Keir Starmer and most of his top team heading to town to launch their national campaign, his party have a lot riding on success here.

The Tories are certainly worried and expecting losses, and say they feel it is down to national issues like the cost of living and the turmoil of the Liz Truss era in particular.

The ballots have just been verified and counting is just about to get underway here at the Steam Museum.

Swindon is famously fast at counting, we can expect to know who if anyone has a majority by early afternoon.

Pete Simson
Political reporter, BBC Radio Bristol

If it’s high political drama you’re after South Gloucestershire is rarely the place to be.

Despite an evening which saw the Conservative group relinquish control of the local authority, genuine electoral shocks were few and far between.

There’s no doubt the Liberal Democrats and Labour are feeling chuffed after both increased their numbers, but only by three and six councillors respectively.

It means they’ll have to begin negotiating a way to work together in order to run the authority effectively, something they’ve both said they want to do.

As for the Tories, they’ll have to rebuild here in opposition, albeit as the largest group.

BBC Radio Wiltshire's Dan O'Brien captured the mood with this timelapse.

BBC Radio Wiltshire's political reporter Dan O'Brien is in position at the Steam Museum.

Joe Harris lauds the Liberal Democrat results in the Cotswolds which has seen his party retain overall control of the authority.

In some areas counts took place overnight. Bath & North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Cotswold all had counting start from 10pm yesterday evening with the results for these areas declared by now.

Here's a rough guide to when we're expecting other results:

• North Somerset: 4pm
• Swindon: around lunchtime
• Forest of Dean: 3pm
• Tewkesbury: 2pm

Former South Gloucestershire Council leader, Toby Savage, says national issues hurt his Conservative Party.

It was a pretty glum night for the Conservatives in the Cotswolds as they lost five seats and watched on as the Liberal Democrats gained four seats on their way to retaining control.

One of the big losses saw Tory group leader, Tony Berry, lose his seat in the Kemble ward to the Lib Dems' Mike McKeown.

A disappointed Mr Berry said: "By the time of the next election I will be 76. The Lib Dems focussed on my seat and I was too busy organising our overall campaign to do the groundwork in my ward."

Meanwhile, defeat for the Conservatives in Blockley means the Green Party has doubled its number of seats on the authority. Andrew Maclean, who represents The Rissingtons, is now joined by Clare Turner, who beat Tory candidate Sue Jepson.

Former Conservative councillor Vic Pritchard lost his seat after 36 years - and ten elections.

The Conservative party have lost their majority at South Gloucestershire Council. They have 23 seats, the Lib Dems have 20, and Labour have 17 seats, with one independent. The council will now move to a situation where no one party has a majority.

Pictured above are Councillors Maggie Tyrell and Claire Young. Ms Young is the leader of the South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrat group and likely to be next leader of the council.

Parties will meet this weekend to work out a power sharing agreement.

Leader of the Labour group, Robin Moss, councillor for Westfield, said he was "surprised" his party is now the official opposition.

"We will be making sure if the administration says they will build council houses or plant trees - this happens.

"An effective opposition will keep them to account and make sure they don't think they rule the roost.

"I think it was a surprise just how badly the Conservatives have collapsed.

"Voters have turned away from the Conservatives - I'm seeing local residents saying how short of money they are amid the cost of living crisis," he said.

Former Conservative councillor for the Chew Valley, Vic Pritchard, lost his seat on Thursday night after 36 years.

His party are now down to just three seats.

Reflecting on his party's losses, he said he was "disappointed with the result.

"We did expect to do a whole lot better than we have. It's inevitable that I couldn't go on forever, this was my tenth election so it will be a considerable change for me."

"It has been very rewarding over the years, I feel I've made some contributions to people's issues."

He laid the blame on the party's losses for national reasons.

"A lot of people were looking to that to express their anger at the national situation, and it led to a lot of apathy along Conservative voters.

"We've been through a dire situation nationally where we almost had a daily succession of Prime Ministers," he said.

The Liberal Democrats say they have achieved a "thrilling victory" after retaining control of Cotswold District Council.

The group, which already had an overall majority on the council after taking control from the Conservatives in 2019, gained four seats, while the Tories lost five and the Greens gained one.

They also took the Conservative party leader's seat in Kemble, with council leader Joe Harris saying his team had worked their socks off.

The makeup of the council now sees the Liberal Democrats with 22 seats, Conservatives nine, Green two, and Independents one.

It was all smiles for the Liberal Democrats in Bath & North East Somerset at the election count.

Kevin Guy, leader of the Liberal Democrat group, said it was a "historic victory" for his party, ending the "partisan flip-flop" of local politics.

"We've wiped the Tories out in Bath, we've taken out the leader and deputy leader and that's thanks to the people of Bath and North East Somerset.

"We're going to deliver this ambitious future for them," he said.

Bath's MP Wera Hobhouse said she was "immensely proud".

The Liberal Democrats have become the first party ever to win two terms in office in Bath and North East Somerset Council.

The Conservatives lost eight seats with only three remaining.

Party Leader Vic Pritchard lost his seat for Chew Valley and said he never expected the party's losses to be so bad.

The Greens equalled the Tories with three councillors - the most they have ever had on BANES Council.

Labour say they are celebrating becoming the official opposition with five seats, and expect to take Paulton when it is rerun - having been postponed due to the death of the Green Party candidate there.

Here is a map of the councils, with seats which are being contested. Before today, the party with the largest overall control was as follows:

• Tewkesbury: 38 seats contested, previous Conservative majority
• Cotswold District: 34 seats contested, previous Liberal Democrat majority
• Swindon Borough: 19 of 57 seats contested, previous Conservative majority
• Forest of Dean District: 38 seats contested, no overall control
• South Gloucestershire: 61 seats contested, previous conservative majority
• North Somerset: 50 seats contested, no overall control
• Bath & North East Somerset: 59 seats contested, previous Liberal Democrat majority

Grab a coffee, it is time for election results day.

On Thursday, there were elections for the following councils

• Bath & North East Somerset
• North Somerset
• South Gloucestershire
• Swindon Borough
• Cotswold District
• Forest of Dean District
• Tewkesbury Borough

We will be bringing you results as they break, with reporters at each of the counts.