Britain is awaiting the results of what was the biggest set of votes—and the greatest test of the electorate—since the 2019 General Election.
On what has been dubbed Super Thursday, voters took part in contests which could shake up British politics and have profound implications for the future of the United Kingdom.
The Hartlepool parliamentary by-election will be one of the first indications of whether Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer has been able to turn around his party’s fortunes in its former northern heartlands, or whether Boris Johnson’s demolition of the so-called “red wall” continues.
Elsewhere elections for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Senedd, and 143 councils and 13 mayors in England, including London, were being held.
London mayoral election are expected at the earliest on Saturday night, and possibly into Sunday.
