Reform UK takes control of Lincolnshire County Council from Conservatives
Reform UK has taken control of Lincolnshire County Council after a "seismic" victory in the local elections.
The party took 44 of the 70 seats, with the Conservatives losing 40 of the 54 seats they held previously, to finish with 14.
Labour finished the night with three seats, down one.
Reform did not have a single councillor before Thursday's vote.
Speaking as he arrived in Hull, where votes were being counted for the newly created role of mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice, the MP for Boston and Skegness, said it had been a "remarkable 36 hours" for Reform.
"We are the big winners in these elections," he said.
He called it a "seismic shift in British politics".
Conservative group leader Martin Hill, who kept his sear, said the result was a "massive protest vote".
He said: "People didn't seem that interested in local services, it was all about national issues - immigration and stuff like that - and I think people had made their minds up and wanted to send a message.
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