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The detailed voting figures for wards in Cardiff and Swansea so far reveal an average swing from Labour to the Conservatives of five points since 2012, according to Prof John Curtice from Strathclyde University.

"This is rather less than the 15 point swing that was anticipated by a recent YouGov poll in Wales," he says.

"Of course Cardiff and Swansea are not necessarily typical of the whole of the principality - but our limited results do not suggest that Labour's undoubted difficulties are necessarily any greater in Wales than they are in England."

Labour's Rob Stewart who led Swansea's last council thinks his party might increase its majority in the city and county authority.

Labour won 49 out of 72 seats in 2012. Of those, the party has held all of the seats declared so far and gained two - one in Dunvant and one in Penyrheol.

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BBC Wales' Rhodri Lewis, who is at the Blaenau Gwent count in Ebbw Vale suggested that Labour's defeat there was partly down to the current three-weekly bin collections., external

"You wouldn't believe what people have been telling me," he said.

"People around here are not necessarily anti-Corbyn. They voted Labour out because of the bin collections. 

"I was told that the council is still getting 100 complaints a week about the new bin collections."

He had also been told that several Independent candidates were former Labour people.

"There is an argument that says it's gone from official Labour to unofficial Labour. There are no other parties in the race in the this part of the world."

Conservatives have won overall control of Monmouthshire.   

The council here has been run by an arrangement between the Tories and Lib Dems since 2012. Now, the Tories have a majority.  

Labour retains control of Neath Port Talbot. Although it has a large majority, it lost nine seats compared with five years ago, while Plaid Cymru gained seven after winning 15 seats. 

The number of Independent candidates totalled five while the Liberal Democrats got off the mark and won one seat.

The Conservatives, UKIP and the Green Party failed to win a single seat.

The closest contested seat of the night was in the Pelenna ward in the Afan Valley after Independent candidate Martin Ellis pipped Plaid Cymru's Hywel Alwyn Miles to the post by a single vote - 133 to 132.

BBC Wales' political correspondent Arwyn Jones tweets:

In Neath Port Talbot, all the results are in - and these are the scores on the doors.

Prof John Curtice from Strathclyde University urges people to remember that Labour has not been consistently in control of Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent councils in recent years.

The party lost control in Merthyr Tydfil in1999 and in 2008 - while in 2004 it only had a majority of one, he says.

"Meanwhile, Labour also lost Blaenau Gwent in 2008," Prof Curtice adds. "Labour's hold on these South Wales valleys has not been as firm as is often thought for some time."

There will be a recount in the Blaenau Gwent ward of Blaina, but not until 11:00 BST on Friday.

The recount will not have any impact on tonight's result - the Independents have already won enough votes to take control from Labour.

All Newport's results have been announced, and giving Labour a large majority

Labour has held onto Newport council in what is proving to be a mixed night for the party.

It has lost control of Blaenau Gwent to Independents and is behind in Merthyr Tydfil where its former council leader lost his seat. The full result there will not be known for another month because the election in one ward was postponed.

In Flintshire, Labour has 34 councillors, remaining the largest group, but the authority remains in no overall control. 

Meanwhile, the Conservatives are expecting to gain a majority in Monmouthshire - which was earlier run by a Tory-Lib Dem coalition. 

Plaid Cymru said it was "breaking new ground" in Labour areas with seat gains in Neath Port Talbot and Blaenau Gwent. It expects to hold onto roughly the same number of seats it currently has in Ceredigion, which it sees as a good result given cuts the authority has made. 

A Lib Dem source said the party's vote was not holding up in Cardiff but the repercussions of that were not yet known.

Earlier we suggested some councils to watch. Two of them have now declared. What do the results tell us?

Cardiff University’s Prof Roger Scully says of Flintshire: “Labour have held up well here. The vote share was down a bit but on council seats the party has improved its position marginally.

“There was no great Tory breakthrough there.

“So there’s some encouragement for Labour. There are some parliamentary seats in the north east that look vulnerable, but we’re not seeing a complete collapse of the Labour vote and they have a fighting chance of holding some or all of them.”

On Blaenau Gwent, he said: “Labour has done much less well there – maybe indicating a continuing weakness in the Valleys which all voted Leave against Labour’s position.

“But who have they lost to? They have lost to Independents and not to one of the parties they are going to be competing with at the general election, which does suggest that even though Labour in the valleys may be in some long term trouble, and facing steadily diminishing support, it is not facing losing its Westminster seats immediately.”