LIVE: Latest updates from across Yorkshire and beyond as local election results roll in

I’m going to round up the final results of Friday, before logging off. But don’t worry, we’ll be firing up the live blog tomorrow to find out who are next mayors of London, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester. To quote Ira Glass, stay with us.

West Lancashire - Labour hold: Keir Starmer’s party retained every seat it has on the council.

Tunbridge Wells - Lib Dem gain: a big result for the Liberal Democrats in Kent, winning eight seats and taking a majority.

Wokingham - no overall control: the Lib Dems are one councillor short of winning a majority on the Berkshire Council.

Stevenage - Labour hold: The Labour Party gained eight seats to maintain control of the Hertfordshire town.

Reigate and Banstead - no overall control: no change in leafy Surrey.

Havant - Conservative loss: the Tories have lost control of Havant, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, it’s now no overall control.

Worcester - no overall control: Labour gained three seats, but it wasn’t enough to win a majority.

Woking - Lib Dem hold: another council secured for Ed Davey’s party in the south of England.

Maidstone - no overall control: no changes in the Medway.

Good morning and welcome to NationalWorld’s local elections live blog. Today we will find out who will be the next mayors of London, Manchester and the West Midlands. A lot of eyes will be on Sadiq Khan in the capital, with murmurings that the race could be tighter than first thought.

The Labour mayor is going for the unprecedented third term, which eluded Ken Livingstone. He’s been under pressure with the roll out of the ultra-low emission zone (first concocted by Boris Johnson don’t forget) and crime in capital. The Conservative candidate is right-wing Susan Hall, who has previously liked tweets supporting Donald Trump and referring to the city as Londonistan.

If she were to win, it would be one of the biggest polling errors in history - however there do appear to be jitters in the Khan camp. I’ll be at City Hall later to watch this all unfold.

These are the timings today when we’re expecting results to come in:

The mayoral race today Tories and Rishi Sunak will be keeping a close eye on is in the West Midlands. Andy Street is seeking to win a third term, and if he retains the mayoralty that will keep the pressure of the Prime Minister. He’s up against Labour candidate Richard Parker.

Noticeably, Street, like Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, who failed to wear his Tory rosette to the count yesterday, has hardly mentioned the Conservatives or Sunak in his campaign. A senior Tory in the West Midlands previously told me it was a good thing voters see him as “almost independent”.

Street uses green leaflets, and his website and Twitter account doesn’t mention anywhere he’s running for the Conservatives. Patrick Harley, the Tory group leader in neighbouring Dudley, in the Black Country, told me that voters see Street “as almost independent from any political party … and that goes down well on the doorstep”.

He explained: “The good thing for us is people are differentiating between the Westminster bubble, which isn’t great at the moment for ourselves. They’re differentiating between their Parliamentarians and local councillors, and our track record here and Mayor Street’s track record. 

“He’s got his own brand, they like him and see him as almost independent from any political party. Clearly he’s a Conservative candidate, but they view him as almost a non-political political candidate - and that goes down well on the doorstep.”

That may work well in local and regional polls, but it won’t be much use to Sunak at a general election.

Is there anything that sums up Boris Johnson’s disregard for rules, than being busted trying to circumvent the voter ID law he brought in while Prime Minister?

He tried to use a magazine as a form of identification to vote in the local elections, but was turned away. Johnson has now thanked the three villagers who stopped him from voting on Thursday in his Daily Mail column.

He revealed he attempted to use a copy of Prospect magazine as a form of identification, but was turned away by local electorate officials.

He wrote in the Mail: “I want to pay a particular tribute to the three villagers who on Thursday rightly turned me away when I appeared in the polling station with nothing to prove my identity except the sleeve of my copy of Prospect magazine, on which my name and address had been printed.

“I showed it to them and they looked very dubious… within minutes I was back with my driving licence and voted Tory.” He’s not the only Conservative to have issues with this government’s voter ID laws. Ipswich MP Tom Hunt had to get an emergency proxy vote after losing his accepted forms of identification.

A reminder that NationalWorld previously reported how Johnson’s government's own impact assessment found voter ID would disproportionately impact disabled, LGBT+ and unemployed people - yet pushed ahead with it anyway.

I’m hearing that we could get the result from the Liverpool City Region mayoral contest soon. My colleague Emma Dukes, of LiverpoolWorld, has a bit of background on the race: “The elected Metro Mayor oversees decisions and budgets related to transport, infrastructure investment, culture, and more, and the position is currently held by Steve Rotheram.

“Standing again for the Labour Party, Rotheram has made headlines in recent months for his work on Merseyside’s public transport network, including the introduction of publicly owned trains, and is campaigning for a third term.”

Here’s the full list of candidates:

I’ve just given our interactive map a refresh with all the latest results. You can either follow it at the top of the page or click here.

Labour’s Steve Rotheram has been comfortably re-elected as mayor for the Liverpool City Region.

The first London mayoral results are in, and they’re good signs for Labour and Sadiq Khan. In Merton and Wandsworth, boroughs which have traditionally been strong for the Conservatives, he’s gained 48.3% of the vote to Susan Hall’s 28.6%.

While in Greenwich and Lewisham, Khan has won 46.5% to Hall’s 26.2%. Both areas had a roughly 5% swing from the Tories to Labour.

Labour’s Oliver Coppard has retained his job as South Yorkshire Mayor with 138,611 votes, with Conservative Nick Allen second with 44,945.