Local elections: Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour achieved "solid" English local election results despite not making big gains.
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Local elections: Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour achieved "solid" English local election results despite not making big gains.
The party failed to take several targets from the Tories, including Wandsworth, but won back Plymouth and became the largest party in Trafford.
Theresa May praised Tory councillors after winning Barnet, Basildon and Peterborough. The party gained from a collapse in UKIP's vote.
The BBC's projected national vote share puts both parties on 35%
At-a-glance:
With 149 of 150 councils declared, Labour had won 2,293 seats, up 55, the Conservatives have won 1,330, down 26, the Lib Dems have won 536, up 75, the Greens have won 39, up eight and UKIP have won three, down 123.
The BBC estimate, based on 800 key wards, puts turnout at 36%, the same as in these wards four years ago.
The Conservatives gained the London council of Barnet from no overall control, and held their flagship London councils of Westminster and Wandsworth. They also won Basildon and Peterborough, which had both also been under no overall control. But they have lost control of their northern flagship Trafford Council after 14 years of Conservative rule.
Labour had high hopes for the night, and have won Plymouth from the Tories and gained Kirklees from no overall control but lost Nuneaton and Bedworth and Derby.
The Lib Dems have gained four councils, winning neighbouring Kingston-upon-Thames and Richmond-upon-Thames in Greater London and South Cambridgeshire from the Tories and Three Rivers from no overall control.
The Greens have gained seats - taking some from Labour in Sheffield and from the Tories in Richmond upon Thames.
UKIP, which performed strongly last time most of the seats were fought in 2014, has seen its vote collapse. It had just three councillors elected, after losing 123.
Sinn Féin has won the Westminster by-election in West Tyrone .
Labour MP Dan Jarvis has been elected mayor of the Sheffield City Region.
Jeremy Corbyn: "There's much more to come and it's going to get even better"
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