In pictures: Election winners and losers
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The sun set on another election on Thursday evening as county council and by election polling stations closed.
There were early results from some contests as council staff counted the ballots overnight. Elsewhere ballot boxes were locked away to be tallied up on Friday.
Candidates and campaigners faced an anxious wait as the votes stacked up. The Conservatives lost overall control of Gloucestershire County Council.
Labour candidate Baroness Royall waits for a result at the Oaklands Snooker Club in Cinderford, Gloucestershire.
UKIP supporters celebrated with the party's Colin Guyton (second right) who won the Drybrook and Lydbrook seat on Gloucestershire County Council.
A member of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party watches on as votes are counted in the the South Shields parliamentary by-election.
Labour's parliamentary candidate Emma Lewell-Buck celebrated an unsurprising by-election victory in the South Shields seat vacated by former foreign secretary David Miliband
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been celebrating as his party looks on course to finish third in terms of share of vote. On what he called a "remarkable night", UKIP won more than 140 seats and averaged 25% of the vote in the wards where it stood candidates.
David Cameron's Conservatives have lost more than 300 councillors while rivals UKIP have gained more than 130. The prime minister once referred to UKIP as a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" but he said today the Tories would have to "work really hard" to win their supporters back
Labour Leader Ed Miliband was in Hastings, East Sussex, as the BBC's projected national share of the vote showed his party was in the lead with 29% of the vote.
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