Local Electioncast! The Results (part 1?)
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the results that have come in overnight in the local elections and the Blackpool South by-election.
Labour has made gains in councils in Redditch, Thurrock, Hartlepool, and Rushmoor in Hampshire as well as winning the Blackpool South seat with a 26% swing. With around a third of local council results in,
Adam is joined by Laura Kuenssberg, Chris Mason, Alex Forsyth, Henry Zeffman and Professor John Curtice to get the latest results and analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, the results are flooding in from the huge swath of elections that were conducted in England and Wales on Thursday. |
| 0:14.2 | So just a reminder, that is loads of English local authorities, the police and crime commissioners everywhere in England and Wales, |
| 0:23.4 | 11 elected mayors, and won by election. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, that sounds like 12 days of Christmas, but six months early. |
| 0:30.9 | Anyway, so what we've done is we've done our traditional thing of doing a live episode of newscast that was on IPlayer |
| 0:36.5 | with all the friends of the podcast |
| 0:38.4 | popping up and in Henry Zephman's case disappearing unexpectedly and doing a bit of live analysis |
| 0:43.9 | as we try to get our head around all of this data. But then I think that's just a really good |
| 0:49.6 | way of understanding what's going on, hearing us trying to brainstorm it all in real time. |
| 0:54.7 | So that's what you're going to hear now on this early morning election-themed episode of |
| 0:58.6 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:01.6 | Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone. |
| 1:05.8 | He's not a leader. He is a human weather vane. |
| 1:08.7 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 1:11.2 | No politicians are listening to what's happening. |
| 1:14.2 | We essentially need a bigger bazooka. |
| 1:17.2 | Why do you always think that the way you'll live |
| 1:19.5 | is better than the way we'll live? |
| 1:20.9 | The AI will be able to do everything. |
| 1:22.6 | The appalling Willy Wonka experience. |
| 1:24.7 | Get a life. |
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