kmhouseindia: Local Elections in UK -Thursday May 02,2013

The UK is holding on May 02,2013 -

35 council elections in England and Wales
two mayoral elections in Doncaster and North Tyneside and
parliamentary by-election in South Shields

In total, there are 35 councils – 34 in England and one in Wales – holding elections.There are no elections in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Local Election Councils are -



1)Bristol
2)Buckinghamshire
3)Cambridgeshire
4)Cornwall
5)Cumbria
6)Derbyshire
7)Devon
8)Dorset
9)Durham
10)East Sussex
11)Essex
12)Gloucestershire
13)Hampshire
14)Hertfordshire
15)Isle of Anglesey
16)Isle of Wight
17)Kent
18)Lancashire
19)Leicestershire
20)Lincolnshire
21)Norfolk
22)North Yorkshire
23)Northamptonshire
24)Northumberland
25)Nottinghamshire
26)Oxfordshire
27)Shropshire
28)Somerset
29)Staffordshire
30)Suffolk
31)Surrey
32)Warwickshire
33)West Sussex
34)Wiltshire
35)Worcestershire UKIP gained 139 seats, while the Conservatives lost 335 and Lib Dems dropped 124

UKIP,the anti-EU party took chunks out of the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems, grabbing 139 council seats by getting a quarter of the vote, pushing Labour into third and the Lib Dems into fourth

With all 34 council election results declared in England -
Conservative Party has won 1116 seats(lost 335 seats)
Labour Party has won 532 Seats(gain of 291 seats)
Liberal Democratic Party has won 352 seats(lost 124 seats)
UKIP has won 147 seats(gain of 139 seats)
Green Party has won 22 seats(gain of 5 seats)

Nigel Farage,leader of the UKIP