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Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter

Labour has held control of Leicester City Council but the Conservatives have made large gains.

It has finished:

LAB 31

CON 17

GRN 3

LDEM 3

Georgia Roberts
BBC Radio Derby

Cecile Wright, one of three Labour councillors elected in Arboretum, is Derby City Council’s first black female councillor.

Asked why it’s taken this long in a city as diverse as Derby, she said: "You can’t be what you can’t see.”

She said she hoped women from all underrepresented groups will see politics is also for them.

The council has remained in no overall control after Thursday's vote.

Labour has 23 seats, Conservatives have 15, Reform Derby has 6, Lib Dems 4 and Independents 3.

Heather Burman
BBC News

The Conservatives have lost seven seats on Harborough District Council meaning the authority now has no overall control.

The Tories still have the most seats on the council though with 15, the Lib Dems now have 13 and Labour and the Green Party both have three.

BBC Radio Nottingham

The leader of Nottingham City Council said Labour's results in the local elections showed the party has the backing of residents.

Out of 55 seats a total of 51 Labour councillors have been elected, and for the first time there are no Conservative representatives winning seats.

David Mellen said the results showed people in the city "have put their confidence in Nottingham Labour, despite the challenges that we've had over the last couple of years".

He added the absence of any Tories meant voters "rejected the government completely", adding the country "desperately needs a general election".

Image source, LDRS

Georgia Roberts
BBC Radio Derby

No change from no overall control on Derbyshire Dales District Council but a real coup for the Liberal Democrats to become the biggest party on the council in a seat widely considered safe territory for the Conservatives.

The Lib Dems were always confident here of a few gains but this is striking:

12 Liberal Democrats

11 Conservatives

6 Labour

4 Greens

1 Independent

Khush Sameja
BBC Radio Leicester reporter

Interestingly, it was a fight between Conservatives and Lib Dems with no Labour candidates representing any of the five remaining wards in Wigston.

But the Lib Dems' quiet confidence paid off. As widely expected, it is a Lib Dem hold, with councillor Samia Haq the first female Asian leader for the party.

Lib Dems - 19

Conservatives - 7

Labour - 0

Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Labour has won overall control of Mansfield District Council, passing the threshold of 19 seats.

The party now has 20 seats with just nine results left to declare.

Mansfield Mayor Andy Abrahams, who will now potentially lead the district council, said: "The whole Labour team have worked hard and you can tell it's team work.

"We've helped each other. That's how we've built this majority and they built it by getting out in the community, speaking to and listening to their concerns, and now that's our job to translate that into action."

Georgia Roberts
BBC Radio Derby

One particularly painful blow for the Conservatives here is Derbyshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster.

She lost her seat on North East Derbyshire District Council by just six votes.

Labour took the council from NOC earlier today, after the Conservatives won the council in 2019 for the first time.

Earlier this week the Conservatives there said they were “cautiously optimistic” about hanging on. The council takes in the North East Derbyshire and Bolsover constituencies, both currently held by Conservative MPs (in Bolsover’s case, its first).

But Labour have been fighting hard. They will be pleased with the resurgence they needed to show coming to fruition in these key battlegrounds.

Hugh Casswell
Political reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

The Labour party has again maintained a majority in Nottingham City Council.

Though the count is still ongoing they have already secured 36 seats, with three won by the Nottingham Independents and one going to Andrew Rule, the former Conservative group leader now standing as an independent candidate.

Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

Though Labour has taken back control of Mansfield District Council, the Conservatives have also improved on their performance from the last election.

Liz Langrick won in the Kings Walk ward, the first time she’s stood for office.

She said it was "a fantastic result" to have secured a seat, and with the Tories already boasting one more councillor than before she said they can "hopefully have some influence".

Sophie Wheeldon
BBC Radio Nottingham

The Conservative party has lost Newark & Sherwood District Council to no overall control.

The Tories previously held a majority of 29 seats on the authority but now have 14. Labour has won 11, Independents also have 11 and the Liberal Democrats have three seats.

Image source, Newark & Sherwood District Council

Sophia Hartley
BBC Radio Leicester

After a very efficient and busy election count here in Charnwood the final results are in:

Conservatives: 23 (-15)

Labour: 20 (+8)

Green: 8 (+7)

Independent: 1 (-1)

County council deputy leader Deborah Taylor, who is also an elected councillor, told us: “Overall, the Conservatives are really disappointed with the results.

"We’re still the largest group in Charnwood but we have lost some really good candidates. So, overall, we're disappointed.”

However, for Labour and the Green Party it has been a victorious day. A gain of eight new Labour councillors and seven new green councillors means that a coalition between the two parties may be on the cards.

Labour leader for the district, Jewel Miah, said: “I'm a feeling fantastic, overwhelmed, actually - at this moment in time we have had a fantastic result.”

When asked about a potential alliance with the Green Party, he seemed optimistic.

It has been an eventful day here in Charnwood. Once considered a very safe and comfortable Conservative stronghold now officially has no overall control.

Georgia Roberts
BBC Radio Derby

The Labour Party have poured resources into Derby, with leader Keir Starmer here just last Friday, and senior shadow cabinet ministers working the streets almost up until the last minute.

There were big hopes of a win here with majority control in Labour’s sights after losing the council in 2019.

With the first half of counting done with, hopes of becoming the biggest party are still alive – but taking control of the council now looks a far narrower path.

Reform have proved a key blockade. Labour needed to regain their former strongholds in Alvaston, where Reform were on the defence – but Reform hit back with a clean sweep of councillors in both of those wards.

There was more for them to cheer about in Blagreaves, where they clinched seats from the Liberal Democrats – a ward they had worked particularly hard.

But so far, those crucial gains for an outright majority seem still yet to surface, and the Conservatives are clinging onto their core vote with just one loss.

There are still some battles to come in the second half of counting – but despite some gains, Labour in Derby will won’t be jumping for joy just yet.

Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter

Labour's Sir Peter Soulsby has been re-elected as Leicester Mayor, external with 35,002 votes.

In second place was Sanjay Modhwadia for the Conservatives, with 26,422 votes, followed by Parmjit Singh Gill for the Lib Dems with 9,674.

Independent Rita Patel polled 7,966, Mags Lewis took 7,808 for the Green Party and Steve Score won 2,173 votes for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.

Turnout was 37.71%.

Gedling, Nottinghamshire, stays under Labour.

Kevin Stanley
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham

So far it all appears to be going Labour’s way.

They now have 12 seats in Mansfield, with two for the Conservatives, two for the Mansfield Independents and one for another Independent candidate.

The majority number required is 19 but we are barely half way through the results and anything could still happen.

Last time around, no one party took overall control.

Image source, LDRS

High Peak goes to Labour after being under no overall control.

Here's how the seats went there.

Adam Whitty
BBC Radio Leicester

The Conservatives have been up on stage, cheering and clapping their narrow victory which sees them hold on to their majority in Blaby District Council, in Leicestershire, by one seat.

Terry Richardson, set to be the new leader of the council, said he was clearly satisfied his party "have kept a majority and have stayed in charge of the council."

"We fought a clean, fair election on local issues, we did it in the right way, and we will get back the councillors that we lost."

He added: "We will carry on providing services for the most vulnerable and those who need us most."

The Conservatives lost six seats from their 2019 election, so I asked him whether he might need a little more compromise and negotiation in the next four years.

"Principles are principles, I won't do anything silly to compromise for those two votes," he shot back.

The Liberal Democrat leader Paul Hartshorn said he was delighted with the result.

"We gave the Conservatives a run for their money. They've gone backwards, we've gone forwards. It's a great result."

"We wanted ten seats, we've got nine, but this is no longer a blue district - it's turning Lib Dem."

Labour take control of North East Derbyshire, which had been under no overall control.