The Liberal Democrats are now having a great set of elections. Now doing well in Wokingham, moved West Oxfordshire in No Overall Control, doing well in Somerset and make take the council.
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Projected National share of the vote is in:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-61235136
Quote:
With more than 700 of the BBC's key wards now declared, we are estimating what would happen if the whole country had been voting in local elections on Thursday.
The outcome across Britain as a whole would have been:
Conservative 30%
Labour 35%
Liberal Democrat 19%
Others 16%
What this means
At 35%, Labour's estimate simply matches that for the party in 2018, which was Jeremy Corbyn's best set of local elections.
But it represents as much as a six-point improvement on its performance in last year's local elections.
And the five-point lead that Labour enjoy over the Conservatives is the largest in any local election since 2012.
In contrast, at 30% the Conservatives are down five points on 2018 and six points on last year.
With the exception of the 2019 local elections when the party was battered by its divisions over the Brexit negotiations, this represents the party's worst performance in a local election since before the EU referendum.
At 19%, the Liberal Democrat performance matches that in the 2019 locals, which had represented the party's best performance in any local election since it entered coalition with the Conservatives in 2010.
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