Reform UK have won seven out of 10 of the Lancashire County Council seats in the Lancaster and Morecambe District.
In a huge shake up in local politics, the relatively new party won the majority of seats available in our local area.
Gary Kniveton, Brian Moore, Graeme Austin, Graham Dalton, Russell Walsh, Shaun Cummins and Martyn Sutton were all elected to the county council.
The result was echoed across Lancashire as Reform won overall control of the county council from the Conservatives.
Reform won 53 of the 84 available seats, as the Conservatives were reduced from 46 seats to eight and Labour went down to just five seats in the county.
The other three seats locally were won by the Greens, increasing their number of overall seats on the county council.
County Councillor Gina Dowding of the Greens was the only councillor to retain her seat in the Lancaster and Morecambe District.
Councillors losing their seats included the former leader of the county council, Conservative Phillippa Williamson, and her fellow Conservatives Charlie Edwards, Matthew Maxwell-Scott, Stuart Morris and Andrew Gardiner.
Labour councillors Jean Parr, Margaret Pattison and Dr Erica Lewis also lost their seats.
LANCASHIRE RESULTS
In other results, Wilson Colley of the Greens won the Lancaster City Council by-election in John O'Gaunt ward in Lancaster, and John Bates of the Liberal Democrats won a by-election in Torrisholme ward on Morecambe Town Council.
INTERVIEWS
County Councillor Brian Moore of Reform UK, who won in Morecambe South
County Councillor Hamish Mills of the Greens, below, who won in Lancaster South East
Margaret Pattison, former county councillor for Labour, who lost her Morecambe Central seat to Reform UK
Charlie Edwards, former Conservative county councillor for Morecambe South, who lost in Skerton to Reform UK
Peter Jackson of the Liberal Democrats, who lost by 31 votes to Reform UK's Shaun Cummins in Lancaster Rural East
FULL ELECTION RESULTS
LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Morecambe Central
Connor Frazer William Graham (Conservative) 119
Paul Bernard Hart (Liberal Democrat) 919
Gary Andrew Kniveton (Reform UK) 1104 ELECTED
Patrick McMurray (Green) 118
Margaret Pattison (Labour) 656
Morecambe South
Keith William Budden (Conservative) 453
Melanie Forrest (Green) 174
Martin Gawith (Labour) 619
Bill Jackson (Liberal Democrat) 429
Brian Edward Moore (Reform UK) 1407 ELECTED
Heysham
Graeme Paul Austin (Reform UK) 1633 ELECTED
Sheldon Kent (Liberal Democrat) 149
Catherine Potter (Labour) 906
George Paul Thomson (Green) 159
Andrew Paul Gardiner (Conservative) 511
Lancaster Rural North
Graham John Dalton (Reform UK) 1159 ELECTED
Alan Greenwell (Liberal Democrat) 391
Sonny Remmer-Riley (Labour) 440
Sue Tyldesley (Green) 713
Phillippa Williamson (Conservative) 1130
Morecambe North
Sara-Louise Dobson (Green) 355
Stuart Morris (Conservative) 752
Jackson Stubbs (Labour) 696
James Pilling (Liberal Democrat) 449
Russell Robert Walsh (Reform UK) 1613 ELECTED
Lancaster Rural East
Shaun Patrick Cummins (Reform UK) 1149 ELECTED
Geoff Eales (Labour) 445
Peter James Jackson (Liberal Democrat) 1118
Sally Ann Shelley Maddocks (Green) 742
Matthew Joseph Maxwell-Scott (Conservative) 920
Skerton
Charles Edwards (Conservative) 261
James Harvey (Liberal Democrat) 118
Andrew Robert Otway (Green) 740
Hilda Jean Parr (Labour) 584
Martyn Sutton (Reform UK) 1068 ELECTED
Lancaster East
Sam Elliot Charlesworth (Labour) 850
Phil Dunster (Liberal Democrat) 87
Connor James Winter (Conservative) 118
Paul Byron Stubbins (Green) ELECTED 1822
Michael Sean Kershaw (Reform UK) 496
Lancaster Central
Gina Dowding (Green) 2157 ELECTED
Thomas William Inman (Conservative) 235
Derek Kaye (Liberal Democrat) 112
Rob Kelly (Reform UK) 765
Fran Wild (Labour) 500
Lancaster South East
Lee David Garner (Reform UK) 590
Daniel Robert Kirk (Conservative) 193
Erica Ruth Estelle Lewis (Labour) 809
Malcolm Martin (Liberal Democrat) 102
Hamish Mills (Green) 1719 ELECTED
LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL
John O'Gaunt ward
Wilson Colley (Green) 523 ELECTED
Dave McGrath Wilkinson (Labour) 277
Martyn Sutton (Reform UK) 15
Ethan Weir-Preston (Liberal Democrat) 133
MORECAMBE TOWN COUNCIL
Torrisholme ward
John Bates (Liberal Democrat) ELECTED 562
Tricia Heath (Morecambe Bay Independent) 173
Robert Douglas Irvine (Reform UK) 512
Pictured below, Robert Irvine, John Bates, and deputy returning officer Mark Davies
LOCAL ELECTIONS TURNOUT
Out of a Lancaster and Morecambe District electorate of 109,458, there were 34,834 votes cast in the Lancashire County Council elections.
This is a turnout of 31.82 per cent.
For the Lancaster City Council by-election on John O'Gaunt ward, out of an electorate of 3038, 954 votes were cast.
This is a turnout of 31.4 per cent.
For the Morecambe Town Council by-election on Torrisholme ward, out of an electorate of 3567, 1259 votes were cast.
This is a turnout of 35.3 per cent.
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