Basically its a total destruction for UKIP and a massive slaughter for Labour:
- The Conservatives gain more than 560 seats, and control of 11 councils
- Labour loses more than 380 seats, and control of seven councils, including Glasgow
- The Liberal Democrats lose 41 seats
- UKIP loses 145 seats - every one it was defending so far, gaining a solitary seat from Labour in Lancashire
- Plaid Cymru gains 33 seats in Wales
- Conservatives win 'metro' mayor races in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Tees Valley, West of England and West Midlands, Labour wins Greater Manchester and Liverpool City.
The projected national vote share for the Tories is 38% to Labour's 27%, the Lib Dems' 18% and UKIP's 5%.
We've seen a couple of by-elections that indicated Labour was in deep, deep trouble. But it has been a very long time since the opposition did not do well against the government in local elections. This performance is the opposite of the local elections under Ed Milliband's Labour leadership when Labour did well in the councils:
In Scotland they gained a majority in Glasgow, while in Wales their results were the best since 1996 and in England they gained 22 councils.
Overall Labour gained 823 councillors. The Tories lost 405 and Lib Dems 336.
But Prime Minister David Cameron said he would continue making "difficult decisions" to deal with the deficit.
With all the results in, the BBC's projection of the national share of the vote has Labour with a 38% national share of the vote, up three points, with the Tories down four on 31%.
That majority in Glasgow is gone.
So yeah... Jeremy Corbyn's electoral performance so far is violently worse than Ed Milliband. Labour lost ground in its strongest areas outside of London, losing to independents and Tories in Wales, to the Nationalists and Tories in Scotland, and to the Tories throughout the North of England. It was an awful performance.
Politically crippled, beaten in every region of the Kingdom, and under withering criticism from candidates who lost their seats, Corbyn says in response that he's "closing the gap" on the Tories. Like the Black Knight in Holy Grail.