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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
lets post the full picture.
Party Total +/- Total +/-
Conservative 157 +4 4820 +81
Labour 57 +26 2392 +800
Liberal Democrat 10 -9 1056 -695
% wise the tories lost out.
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Not sure where your results are from but from the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12913122
Number of councillors
Con 5109 54%
Lab 2459 26%
Lib 1098 12%
Other 793 08%
Using this as a basis for national government, from the UK polling website this is
Conservative 476 seats (+170)
Labour 143 seats (-115)
Liberal Democrats 8 seats (-49)
Others 5 seats (-6)
Northern Ireland 18 seats (nc)
This is a Conservative Majority of 302.
Personally I don't think that this has much basis in real life either as I don't think you really translate local to national (my local vote would not be the same, and I didn't vote Conservative). but in general terms the Conservatives position has improved along with Labours.
JJ