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Projected vote share: Labour 38%, Conservatives 31%, Lib Dems 16%, others 15%

Labour have gained 823 councillors seats, the Conservatives have lost 405 and the Lib Dems 336

The Conservatives are nine points down on 2008, Labour are up 16 points and the Lib Dems down eight points

Turnout is projected at 32% - the lowest in English local elections since 2000

The Conservatives lose control of 10 councils overall - with Great Yarmouth, Dudley, Plymouth and Essex marginal Harlow falling to Labour

Labour have gained 22 councils and held 39 they already controlled

The number of Lib Dem councillors has fallen below 3,000 for the first time in the party's history and they have lost control of stronghold Cambridge

The Greens have added five councillors to their ranks

Respect have unseated the Labour leader of Bradford City Council and taken five seats

The UK Independence Party gains 13% of the vote where they stood but have failed to convert that into more seats - gaining five councillors, but losing five

Six councillors from Nick Griffin's British National Party have lost their seats

In Wales Labour have had their best results since 1996, retaking control of former strongholds that they lost in 2008

Labour took control of 10 out of the 21 councils, including Cardiff, Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Swansea

The Welsh Conservatives lost their majority in Monmouthshire and lost control of the Vale of Glamorgan, losing 61 seats overall

Plaid Cymru had hoped to gain overall control in Gwynedd, one of its heartland areas, but fell one seat short and lost 41 seats overall

The Lib Dems lost 66 seats overall

Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Bradford, Coventry, Wakefield, Leeds and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne have voted against having a directly elected mayor

Bristol has voted in favour of one, with a turnout of 24.1%

Doncaster voted to keep its mayor, with 62% of voters in favour

The SNP claimed most seats across the 32 authorities, 424, up 57, and won their first majority councils - in Dundee and Angus

The most high-profile upset came when Edinburgh leader, Lib Dem Jenny Dawe, lost her seat as the party lost 80 - or more than half - of their councillors

Labour won an overall majority in Glasgow, denying the SNP one of its top targets and gained 58 councillors overall

The Conservatives lost 16 seats, but the Greens boosted their tally by 6 to 14

Most councils are "hung", due to the PR voting system, including Edinburgh, with no one party in overall control

Boris Johnson has beaten Ken Livingstone to win a second term as mayor by just 3% after second preference votes are counted

Labour saw a big increase in support in the London Assembly elections and gained two first-past-the-post seats

Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick came fourth behind the Green Party's Jenny Jones, with less than half the votes he received in 2008