East Hampshire District Council goes to no overall control following Thursday's elections.

The Conservatives have lost their long-held grip on East Hampshire District Council.

The Tories lost 12 seats but remain the largest party on 19.

The Liberal Democrats gained seven to remain the second largest group with 14 councillors.

The authority now also has seven Independents, two Greens and one Labour councillor.

The Liberal Democrats have retained control of Winchester City Council, gaining two seats to maintain an overwhelming majority.

The Lib Dems now have 30 councillors on the authority, with the Conservatives in second place on 12 after losing one seat.

The Green Party gained a second councillor while two Independents lost their seats.

Five Independent councillors and a Liberal Party member lost their seats in Test Valley, leaving just two parties represented on the borough council.

The Conservatives are the largest group with 26 councillors, up two.

The Liberal Democrats gained four seats to end on 17.

The result means the Tories retain an overall majority.

Labour has easily held on to power at Southampton City Council, gaining another 10 seats.

The party now has 35 councillors, while the Conservatives, who controlled Southampton as recently as last year, are on nine.

Three Liberal Democrats and the Greens' first-ever councillor complete the list.

A separate election will be held to elect three councillors in Coxford, after the death of Conservative councillor Graham Galton on Thursday led to polling being abandoned.

The Liberal Democrats have seized control of South Oxfordshire, which was previously a hung council.

They have taken 19 of the 36 seats, with six yet to be declared.

The Lib Dems previously had just 13 seats on the council, which is based in Abingdon.

Claire Starr
BBC Oxford - Political Reporter

The last Conservative run council in Oxfordshire, Cherwell District Council is now under no overall control

The Labour Party, Greens and Liberal Democrats all picked up seats here

Discussions will now take place to work out who forms an administration – one that won’t be Conservative for the first time in more than 20 years

An existing alliance between the Lib Dems, Greens and Independents, what they call a Progressive Oxfordshire Alliance already exists, or the Labour Party could look to try to enter an administration.

Discussions are set to begin in the coming days

No major council in Oxfordshire - a county which was a Tory stronghold – will now be run by the Conservative Party

Tristan Pascoe
BBC Radio Solent political reporter

The Lib Dems are the largest group on Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, with 28 seats.

The Conservatives are the second largest group with 12 seats and Labour are just behind on 11.

The Greens also gained three seats so now have five overall.

Lid Dem leader Vikki Slade told me she will be discussing collaborating with the Greens, Poole People party and possibly others over the next few days and will look to form another coalition.

Voters at a polling station in Reading have mixed views on new requirements for local elections.

Marcus White
BBC South

The Conservatives remain the largest party on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, although without an overall majority.

The Tories controlled the authority after the elections in May 2022 but subsequently lost their majority because of defections.

The new political composition (with the change from numbers immediately preceding the election in brackets) is:

• Conservatives 23 (-3)
• Labour 10 (+1)
• Liberal Democrats 9 (+2)
• Basingstoke & Deane Independents 8 (no change)
• Independents 3 (no change)
• Greens 1 (no change)

The Conservatives have been devastated in Bracknell, losing 27 seats.

Labour picked up 18 putting them in control.

The council now has 22 Labour councillors, 10 Tories, 7 Lib Dems and 2 Greens.

Labour gained two Tory seats in Wokingham and the Lib Dems won three - but the council stays in no overall control.

Labour - which now has five councillors - says it is happy to continue a “joint administration” with the Liberal Democrats - which has 26 councillors.

The Tories have been left with 22 seats and there is 1 Independent.

Labour lost control of the council - here are the final results., external

West Oxfordshire District Council remains without a majority political party after elections in a third of seats.

The Liberal Democrats are now the largest party, gaining three councillors.

The number of seats now held by each party is:

• Lib Dems 18 (+3)
• Conservatives 17 (-3)
• Labour 10 (+1)
• Green Party 3 (+1)
• Independents 1 (-2)

Previously the authority was run by a coalition of Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green councillors.

Claire Starr
BBC Oxford - Political Reporter

The Conservative Leader ofCherwell District Council says he’s "nervous" ahead of election results for the district.

It’s the only Conservative-controlled council in Oxfordshire and the Conservatives only have a majority of two.

Leader Barry Wood says it’s not easy to stand and watch the count "there’s an element of nervousness that it might go away from us this time".

Counting is underway and we’re waiting for the first results

Emily Hudson
BBC Radio Solent, Hants and IoW political reporter

With counting halfway through at Southampton City Council, the Conservatives have lost two seats in Bassett and two in Bitterne Park.

Losing Tory candidate John Hannides in Bassett had been a councillor for 29 years.

He left the count with hugs from people from opposition parties.

In Harefield, which elected three Conservatives for different term lengths, Tory group leader Daniel Fitzhenry will have to fight for his seat again next year.

He and Val Laurent got exactly the same number of votes, so a piece of paper was pulled out of an empty ballot box to see which councillor would have the one-year and which would have the two-year term. Dan lost.

The authority, previously run by Labour, expects to finish counting at about 18:00.

Maria Zaccaro
BBC News

We have the final results for Slough Borough Council, where Labour has lost control of the authority.

The party won 18 seats, the Conservatives secured 21, and the Liberal Democrats three.

This means there's no overall control of the council.

As we have been reporting, James Swindlehurst - the former Labour leader of the council - has lost his seat to the Conservatives.

He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service he was not surprised with the results.

He said some of the measures taken by his group in the past year, including a council tax increase, were "unpopular" but "needed" to restore the council's budget.

"This is a consequence to that and as the figurehead of the council I am not surprised that I'm being punished for that," he added.

Slough Borough Council was one of the three councils in England given dispensation by the government to increase bills above the 4.99% cap without holding a referendum.

The council effectively declared bankruptcy in 2021 after it racked up a £760m borrowing debt and a £357m deficit.

Conservative leader Dexter Smith said Labour's defeat was "a vote for change in Slough".