Father and daughter Francesca O’Brien and Richard Lewis have been elected for the Conservatives in Mumbles and Gower respectively.

Francesca is the party's newest elected member and her dad the oldest, with 49 years under his belt.

Francesca stood as an MP in the Gower constituency in the 2019 general election, but was beaten by Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi.

No party majority in Wrexham as independents win 23 out of the 56 available seats.

This is five fewer than the 28 independents elected in 2017.

For a breakdown on what's happened, see here.

Felicity Evans
BBC Wales political editor

It’s still early days in terms of results and local elections are complex so today’s results won’t give us a definitive picture of the national or UK picture.

Nevertheless, what happens in the key Conservative/Labour battleground in the north-east of Wales could have significant implications.

That’s where the Welsh Conservatives routed Welsh Labour in the 2019 general election when Boris Johnson persuaded a lot of Labour voters to give him a try.

Tory sources are suggesting that the party is facing a “challenging” set of results in places such as Conwy and Denbighshire (where they have been running the councils in coalition with others).

If it looks like the party is losing voters’ support, that could raise questions about Boris Johnson’s ability to keep the 2019 cohort on board.

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The outcome in Vale of Glamorgan is "too close to call", according to representatives from both Labour and the Conservatives.

While the Conservatives won the last election here in 2017, Labour took over the running of the council in 2019.

Representatives of both parties have told the BBC that today's result is too close to call.

A total of 44,547 ballot papers have been cast with a turnout of 42.89%.

Labour's Ted Palmer has held on to his seat in Holywell Central by just a single vote.

The incumbent, who was elected unopposed last time around, got 224 votes to independent candidate Daniel Thomas's 223.

Mr Palmer said it was "nerve-racking" but he was "delighted, obviously".

He said he didn't know why the election went to the wire like it did, adding it was just "part of the game".

David Deans
BBC Wales politics reporter

Richard John has led Monmouthshire council since Peter Fox stood down last year.

Could he become the latest council leader in Wales to be toppled?

A source has told BBC Wales they fear that Liberal Democrat Martin Blakebrough, of drugs charity Kaleidoscope, could take the seat.

But with rumours of recounts and close results, we still don't know for certain.

Plaid Cymru has secured a majority in Gwynedd.

The party has now won their 37th seat on the 69-member council, with a few results still to be declared.

The leader of Caerphilly county council, Philippa Marsden, has lost her Ynysddu ward following a huge defeat.

She got only 213 votes compared to Jan Jones, an independent, with a vote count of 1,162.

In second place was another independent candidate, Janine Reed, with 1,150 votes, still almost five times the amount of the former leader.

Labour in Cardiff believes it could win up to almost two-thirds of the seats in the council’s capital.

A party source said it was hopeful of winning up to 50 of the 79 seats.

On an "excellent day", it could reach 60, the source added.

At the last election in 2017, Labour won 40 out of the 75 seats up for grabs.

Defeated former Powys leader Rosemarie Harris says she did not expect to lose her seat.

Ms Harris was elected as the region's first female council leader in 2017.

The independent candidate said funding constraints, along with a well-organised "political" campaign run by her Lib Dem opponent, contributed to her defeat.

She says she is proud of what she had achieved and leaves with her head held high.

She adds that politicians will need to “choose wisely” once the results are in as to who should to lead the council in future.

There's been drama in Carmarthenshire where one ward has gone down to the toss of a coin.

David Darkin and fellow Labour candidate Philip Warlow were level on 596 votes each.

So the only way to decide who would get the third seat in the Bigyn ward was either heads or tails - with Philip Warlow guessing correctly.

It wasn't all bad news for David Darkin, whose mum Janet Williams took one of the other seats, but said she was "gutted" for her son.

A senior Conservative source fears the party will be convincingly defeated in Monmouthshire.

It is the only Conservative-held council in Wales.

David TC Davies, MP for Monmouth, had previously said the result in Monmouthshire was "too tight to call", but results so far have been "strange".

Married for 37 years, Debbie and Tim Harvey have been elected to represent Alway in Newport.

Debbie, 58, has already served three terms in Newport, but this is Tim’s first time standing.

Debbie said their cooperation would not be a strain.

“It’s going to be fine, we know each other inside out and we can bounce ideas off each other.”

The Harveys are not the only married couple standing for election.

In Flintshire, Gladys and David Healey, representing Hope and Caergwrle respectively, have just been re-elected for Labour.

The party has also gained the Broncoed ward in Mold, but an independent candidate has taken Treuddyn.

The election will decide who runs your local authority, which makes decisions on transport, schools, social services and waste.

There are 22 councils in Wales, with a total of 1,234 seats in 762 wards up for grabs.

Unlike the Welsh or UK parliaments, councillors cannot pass their own laws. But they can make decisions on how local services are run.

Labour will be hoping to make up lost ground after it lost more than 100 councillors in the last elections in 2017, despite remaining dominant with control of seven authorities.

Like last year's Senedd election, anyone over the age of 16 can vote, as can foreign nationals. There are 2.3 million voters in Wales.

You can find our simple guide to the election here.

Daniel Davies
BBC Wales political correspondent

This is Raj Metri, the newly-elected Labour councillor for Bodelwyddan.

He took it from the Conservatives with a 100-vote majority.

Could Mr Metri’s victory in the seat, near Rhyl, bode badly for the Conservatives in Denbighshire?

His defeated Tory candidate was Abigail Mainon, a well-known party activist in the north.

The previous councillor in the seat was her dad, Richard.

For the first time, the Conservatives have a candidate in every ward in Denbighshire, but sources in other parties here at the count in Denbigh leisure centre sound confident.

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A forklift truck may be required to save counting in Powys where parking problems could to stall the announcement.

Election officials have repeatedly threatened to suspend the count because cars belonging to people at the Royal Welsh Showground site are blocking a route through the site.

The official announced: “I’m assured by Royal Welsh staff that they have a forklift available unless these cars are moved.”

James Williams
BBC Wales Political Correspondent

It's very, very early days but turnout in some areas is lower than the worst figures of 2017.

Merthyr Tydfil has recorded a turnout of 34%, down from 37.7% five years ago.

Turnout in Blaenau Gwent was 32.49% - a drop from 40% in 2017.

Both of these figures are lower than the worst 2017 turnout figures of 36.3% in Caerphilly and Newport.

However, Denbighshire has announced a turnout 38.6%, up from 35% in 2017.

Engineer and kite surfer Martyn Hogg is the first Green candidate ever to be elected in Denbighshire.

He’s taken St Asaph East from the Conservatives.

Catherine Bonera is hoping for a better slice of luck than the last time she stood for election.

Back in 2012, the independent candidate in Torfaen, then Catherine Lewis, missed out when names had to be pulled out of a hat when she polled the same number as Labour's Amanda Owen in the Greenmeadow ward.

This year she has returned, hoping to avoid the same fate in the St Dials ward.

Labour's Nicola Matthews has been elected for Penyrheol, Swansea, while on maternity leave.

She said it's been a great experience and her daughter Quinn is a “real campaign baby” who’s been out on the doorstep with her throughout.