Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I'm baffled about the results of the local elections after looking through various different media sources.

The BBC say: Tories - 474 seats; Labour + 186

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68609732

The Guardian says: Tories - 397 seats; Labour + 232

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ts-for-england

They disagree on the seat totals for all the other parties too!

Locally in Sheffield the BBC say Labour gained 2; the Lib Dems lost 2, Independents (Gaza) gained 1 and the Tories lost their only seat and are again wiped out. But the local online paper (Sheffield Tribune) did a long and detailed post election analysis yesterday which claimed Labour gained 5 seats (and disagreed with the BBC on most of the other group totals too).

Bizarre!
I think the BBC figures are right. It's a rare example of the guardian skewing reality to suit the Tories!

Aside from the frustration I have with party politics, I do love all the graphs and charts from this stuff, but local elections are nothing like general elections or senedd elections etc. The numbers are so skewed on where elections take place etc that it's hard to get too excited bar the key takeaways of Labour doing well, Tories bad etc