Local election 2025: Results across South West including Devon, Cornwall and Gloucestershire
Thousands of voters across the South West have cast their ballots in the latest round of local elections.
Voters are electing councillors across council areas including Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall.
Here are the latest results for the West Country, with updates to follow:
Devon
The Liberal Democrats narrowly failed to take control of Devon County Council - a council which had been previously Conservative-run.
The Lib Dems have however become the largest party on the county council, in what they have described as a "West Country wipe-out".
Reform UK has taken seats for the first time on the county council - winning a total of 17.
The Liberal Democrats have picked up 27 seats, the Green Party has picked up six, there were six for the Conservative Party and two independents.
The Lib Dems previously had just 10 seats on the council, which was controlled by the Conservatives with 40.
Gloucestershire
Counting is still underway.
Voter turnout in the 10 city electoral divisions in Gloucester was low, the figure predicted to be around 31.4%.
Liberal Democrat leader of Gloucestershire Council, Jeremy Hilton, said: "The Conservatives in government were a disaster, everyone was right to kick them out last year.
"I think the same the County Council, they've been in charge for twenty years.
"The roads are falling apart, the services are inadequate and I think people need a change to the way the county council is run.
"One hopes the Liberal Democrats will be forming the next administration", he added.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire has 98 council seats up for grabs, counts are still ongoing.
Counting is taking place in three centres: Five Rivers Leisure Centre, Olympiad Leisure Centre and County hall.
But this year voter turnout has fallen from the 2021 elections.
The last unitary authority elections, which took place when Covid restrictions were still in place had a turnout of 40.53%, that figure has fallen to 36.19% this year.
Cornwall
Counting is still ongoing.
There are three counts taking place across the county including at Bodmin Leisure Centre, Carn Brea Leisure Centre and Truro Cathedral.
ITV News West Country spoke to residents in Truro who had just cast their ballot.
One man said: "I voted Labour my whole life, but I changed to Conservatives, I think they're all the same."
When asked about engagement, one woman said: "The local councillors in our village have been quite upright and have come round knocking on doors and posting leaflets."
Another woman added: "You can't complain, if you haven't voted them in, so I always go and vote."
Labour's Helen Godwin has been elected as the new Mayor of the West of England.
She received 51,197 votes, equivalent of 24.97% of the ballots, beating Reform UK's Arron Banks by around 6,000 votes. The turnout was 205,028, equivalent to 30.02%.
The Combined Authority area covers Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire.
The mayor has a say over things like transport, housing, employment and skills, and could gain even more authority under the government's plans to devolve power out of Westminster.
There were more votes cast in the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) areas outside of Bristol than in it, figures show.
Bath and North East Somerset had 42,886 verified ballot papers, while South Gloucestershire had 64,847 – a combined total of 107,733.
Bristol had 97,824 verified ballot papers, so 9,909 fewer than the two other areas combined.
Across the region, out the 682,951 who were eligible to vote, only 205,557 votes were cast.
That's a total turnout of 30%.
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