Results are beginning to come in for the 2025 local and mayoral elections, showing Reform in particular as making huge gains
Results are beginning to come in for the 2025 local and mayoral elections, with a total of 1,641 council seats up for grabs across 23 local authorities, as well as four regional mayor and two local mayoral positions.
Reform has made huge gains in the results announced so far, after achieving a party first in the mayoral elections.
Nigel Farage’s party has achieved a standout victory, after winning its first-ever regional mayor position in England. Labour, meanwhile, has held on to a hat-trick of mayoral positions, but with the threat of Reform being close on its heels.
Just one council has so far declared all of its results so far, with Reform striking impressive gains in Northumberland, at the expense of both Labour and the Conservatives.
Counts will get under way for the rest of the local authorities who held elections on Friday morning, 2 May, and results are expected to be announced later in the day.
Four mayoral positions have already been announced, as counts took place overnight, while the results of the mayoral contests in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and Hull & East Yorkshire, are due to be declared later on Friday afternoon.
From the results which have been announced so far, Reform has made huge gains at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives, leading to predictions that similar results will be seen in some of the local election results, due to be announced later in the day.
So far, Greater Lincolnshire has made waves on the election after giving Reform its first-ever regional mayor position.
The election has seen a comfortable victory for Farage’s party, in Greater Lincolnshire, as it took 42% of the vote, coming well ahead of the Conservatives in second place on 26.1%. Labour finished a distant third on 12.3%.
Results from the Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election suggests that Reform will also do well in the separate elections for Lincolnshire county council. Votes from this election will be counted and decaled later on Friday.
Yet, Reform’s winning candidate for Greater Lincolnshire, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, won on a very low turnout of just 29.9%.
Labour however, has seen victory in elections in North Tyneside, Doncaster and in West of England.
In North Tyneside, Labour has continued to hold on to its mayoral position but, saw itself winning by just a small margin as Reform came in at a close second.
The area has traditionally been one of Labour’s heartlands in the north-east, and the party’s candidate Karen Clark was favourite to win. While Ms Clark received 16,230 votes, Reform candidate John Falkenstein achieved a close 15,786 votes – just 444 less.
Labour has maintained its hold of Doncaster, with Ros Jones continuing to hold onto the mayoral position after entering the position in 2013.
Reform however made close advances yet again on Labour in Doncaster, as the party secured 23,107 votes to Ms Jones’ 23,805, giving her a majority of just 698.
Labour also held on to West of England mayor, but on a much lower share of the vote than in North Tyneside or Doncaster.
Again Reform came in at a close second to Labour with the party achieving 22.1% of the vote in comparison to Labour’s 25% share.
The Conservatives have remained the largest party on the Northumberland council, but won only 26 of its 69 seats.
This placed the party just ahead of of Reform who gained 23 seats, after previously holding no seats on the council before the election.
With no party having enough councillors to secure a majority in Northumberland the council is now classed as being in no overall control, which will likely lead the parties to begin negotiations of how to run the new council, including the opportunity for a formal coalition, a less formal agreement of support, or one or more parties attempting to take control as the largest minority group.
