Voters in England casted their ballots in local elections which was considered a test of the public mood less than a year before the UK leaves the European Union.
Voting tookplace Thursday to fill more than 4,000 seats on 150 local councils in towns and cities across England, including all of London's 32 boroughs.
UKIP have lost almost all of the seats they were defending. Labour gained more than 70 councillors but ended up with no change to the numbers of councils they control, having failed to take several targets from the Conservatives, including Wandsworth. They won back Plymouth and became the largest party in Trafford and Tower Hamlets.
TORIES
The Tories were bracing themselves for losses as some voters expressed anger over unsteady Brexit negotiations, an explosive immigration scandal and years of public spending cuts. They won Barnet and Redditch and gained from a collapse in UKIP's vote to take Basildon and Peterborough from No Overall Control.
They held on to their flagship London councils, gained control of Redditch from Labour and Barnet, Basildon and Peterborough, which had been under no overall control. But they have lost control of Trafford in Greater Manchester, a key northern stronghold, where Labour is now the largest party, Plymouth, and Mole Valley, Surrey - as well as losing two London councils to the Lib Dems.
Prime Minister Theresa May visited Wandsworth on Friday morning - one of the Conservative's key London councils which the party held, despite losing eight seats. She said the party "won't take anything for granted" and would "build on this success for the future".
LABOUR
The main opposition Labour Party was hoping to pick up hundreds of seats, but has been tarnished by allegations that its leadership failed to clamp down on anti-Semitism in party ranks. Swings to Labour in London mean that overall they have lost councillors compared to the last time these seats were up, in 2014.
The party was defending the most seats - more than 2,200 - and had talked up its prospects in London, where it made gains in last year's general election.
Labour gained control of Plymouth from the Conservatives as well as Kirklees, but lost control of two Midlands councils - Derby and Nuneaton and Bedworth - to no overall control. Its hopes of seizing control of Wandsworth and Westminster proved unfounded while the party lost ground in Hillingdon.
Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour achieved "solid" English local election results despite not making big gains.
The party failed to take several targets from the Tories, including Wandsworth, but won back Plymouth and became the largest party in Trafford.
LIB DEMS
The Lib Dems have won back control of Kingston-upon-Thames, in south-west London, which they lost to the Tories four years ago, after taking neighbouring Richmond - both areas had a large majority in favour of remaining in the EU. The party has also gained control of Three Rivers, south-west Hertfordshire, which had been under no overall control and has won South Cambridgeshire from the Tories.
The party also withstood a strong Conservative challenge to hold onto Sutton in south-west London - while it picked up nine seats in Kingston-upon-Hull.
Party leader Sir Vince Cable hailed the result in Richmond: "It's certainly the beginning of the comeback of the Lib Dems. It's not going to happen overnight - Rome wasn't built in a day. Morale is now very high. We have demonstrated that we can win when we are focused and we can only build on that."
UKIP
UKIP suffered the worst results in this election. The Eurosceptic party has, as predicted, haemorrhaged support, losing nearly all of the council seats it won in 2014, when it broke through into local government for the first time.
It put up candidates in only 540 seats compared with 2,193 in 2014, lost all ten seats it contested in Basildon, five in Thurrock and seven in Dudley. So far they have lost more than 100 seats and won two - including unseating Labour's council leader in Derby.
Former deputy chair Suzanne Evans said the fact it had taken two seats in Derby was a sign it could still "put the cat among the pigeons". Meanwhile its general secretary, Paul Oakley, compared UKIP to the Black Death and said the party "not all over at all".
