First results in England expected shortly, while Scottish and Welsh parliament results are due from midday
2026 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votes
In case you missed it on Thursday, my colleague Andrew Sparrow wrote this excellent guide to why these elections could be so transformative for British politics:
Earlier I said that today’s elections are likely to be seismic. (See 8.14am.) We don’t have any results yet, but unless all the opinion polls, and all the council byelections that have taken place over the past 12 months, and all the parliamentary byelections that have taken place since the general election, turn out to be completely unreliable guides to how people vote today, then we already have a rough idea of what the outcome will look like. It will be enough to transform the political landscape of Britain – in at least seven ways.
1) The full arrival of five-party politics in England
