As it happened: Vote 2013 results and reaction
Key Points
- Elections for 27 English county councils and seven unitary authorities as well as Anglesey in Wales have been held.
- The Conservatives lose control of 10 councils but retain power in 18, and score 25% projected national vote share
- Labour wins back control of two councils and has the highest projected share of the national vote - 29%
- UKIP is the big story of the night, gaining 139 councillors and beating the Lib Dems into fourth place in projected vote share with 23%
- Prime Minister David Cameron says his party will "work hard to win back" voters.
- Labour wins the South Shields parliamentary by-election, retaining a seat it has held since 1935, but with a reduced majority.