Local Electioncast! The Results (part 1…)

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K 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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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Miranda Slade and Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello!
0:06.1	The results are flooding in from the huge swathe of elections
0:11.0	that were conducted in England and Wales on Thursday.
0:14.1	So just a reminder that is loads of English local authorities.
0:18.0	The police and crime commissioners everywhere in England and Wales, 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
0:33.8	doing a live episode of newscast that was on I Player with all the friends of the
0:37.8	podcast popping up and in Henry's efforts, disappearing unexpectedly and doing a bit of live analysis as we try to get
0:44.9	our head round all of this data but then I think that's just a really good way of
0:50.0	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.
0:59.6	Newscast.
1:00.6	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 vein.
1:08.6	Two cheeks of the same backside.
1:11.2	No politicians are listening to what's happening we essentially
1:15.2	need a bigger bazooka why do you always think that the way you live is better than the
1:20.3	way we'll live the AI will be able to do everything. The appalling
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