Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire and Crawley in Sussex both stay red.

In Blackburn with Darwen Labour and the Conservatives gain one seat each from the Lib Dems.

No change of seats in Crawley means Labour remains in charge with 20 seats.

The projections for the national share of the vote show the two major parties are neck and neck.

The Conservatives have had a small swing towards them, holding 35% - up 6% compared to 2014.

But the Labour Party is also on 35% of the share, based on these predictions, up by 4%.

The Lib Dems have also seen a rise of 3% to 16% of the share.

The "others" category is responsible for 14% of the share, but that is the biggest fall - down 13% - accounting for the huge losses for UKIP.

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No change in Hastings which means Labour retains control of the council.

The area is home to Amber Rudd's constituency where she has a majority of just 346.

The MP resigned as home secretary last week in the wake of the Windrush row.

UKIP now has no councillors in Surrey after losing their single remaining seats on Mole Valley, and Reigate and Banstead councils.

They fielded no candidates in either Tandridge and Runnymede, nor in Woking or Elmbridge, which have yet to declare.

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In the Sheffield City Region mayoral election, Labour's Dan Jarvis had 43.8% of the vote after Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham declared.

His hopes to get through on the first ballot were on resting Barnsley, where he is the MP.

But it didn't quite get him there, and with PA reporting he has 47.9% of the vote, the contest will have to go to a second round under the supplementary vote system.

BBC Look North's political editor James Vincent says: "Dan Jarvis hasn't done enough to win on first preference, so we'll be looking at second preferences. That will be seen a failure for Labour."

It is a Lib Dem victory in Hertfordshire where the party has taken control of Three Rivers council which was previously under no overall control.

Labour gained four seats and UKIP lost four seats, but it is the Conservatives who hold Adur in Sussex with 16 seats.

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In the nearly 850 key wards whose results have been declared so far, turnout stands at 36% - exactly the same as in these wards four years ago.

There was a slight increase in London - up by two points - but this has been counterbalanced by a one point drop outside of the capital.

However, the 42% turnout in London is noticeably higher than the 34% turnout in key wards outside.

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Reigate and Banstead, in Surrey, and Worthing, in Sussex, both stay Conservative.

In Worthing, the Conservatives have 28 seats, having lost two.

In Reigate and Banstead, the party won two more seats, making a total of 41.

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Milton Keynes Council in Buckinghamshire remains under no overall control.

However, the Conservatives took two seats - one each from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Pendle was under no overall control, with the Conservatives on 24 and Labour on 15.

However, the Tories have now managed to take Pendle by one seat after reinstating Councillor Rosemary Carroll who had been suspended for retweeting a racist joke.

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Prof John Curtice says the BBC's key ward results continue to show marked differences in the pattern of performance between constituencies with a young and an older age profile.

Labour's vote is up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35% of voters are aged between 18 and 34, but is up by just four points where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20%.

Conversely, the Conservative vote is up by eight points on average in wards where there are relatively few younger voters, but is down by a point in those wards where there are more younger voters.

"These results appear to provide further proof of the growing age divide in Conservative and Labour support," he said.

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Labour "would have hoped to have done better" in the local elections but can learn lessons from Plymouth and Exeter, a Devon MP has said.

Ben Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, says he is "confident Labour can win the next election".

The party held on to its majority in Exeter and Labour took control of Plymouth City Council by gaining four seats from the Conservatives.

Norwich stays red as Labour win five seats from the Green Party.

But the Greens remain Norwich's second biggest party as they retain five seats - just ahead of the Lib Dems, who have three.

Conservatives have kept a hold of North Hertfordshire despite losing five seats - two to Labour and three to the Lib Dems.

In Rossendale, Lancashire, Labour remains in control of the council, with one of their seats going to the Conservatives.

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Positivity is continuing to flow from the Lib Dems as they currently sit with a gain of 38 seats across England.

Former cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey said it had been a "brilliant night" for his party.

Speaking to the Press Association at the Kingston-upon-Thames count, he said: "We've won councils like Richmond, we might well win here in Kingston, and there are one or two other counts coming later elsewhere in the country where we might well win control of the council.

"So we might end up winning more councils net from the previous position than any other party."

He added: "Across the country this looks like a real fightback for the Liberal Democrats."