Local Electioncast: The Results! (Part 1)

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today, Reform have won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes - one of the closest parliamentary elections ever. Sarah Pochin overturned Labour's large majority to become Reform's fifth MP after a recount.

Elsewhere, Reform wins its first mayoral election in Greater Lincolnshire, and Labour narrowly holds three mayoral races in North Tyneside, the West of England, and Doncaster - with Reform second in all three.

This is still an emerging picture, with plenty more results to come.

Adam is joined by Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg - as well as Richard Fuller from the Conservatives, Luke Pollard from Labour, Adrian Ramsay from the Greens and Daisy Cooper from the Lib Dems.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, as is tradition on the morning after a big set of elections,
0:09.3	we have done a live episode of newscast that people could watch on IPlayer
0:13.5	and on the news button on BBC Sounds.
0:16.6	So we're going to hear a slightly chaotic live episode of newscast, taking in all the results we've got from the local elections and starting off with the Runcorn and Halesby by-election, which had been called for a reform with a majority of six after a recount.
0:36.7	And that happened just a couple of minutes before we started
0:38.7	doing the episode. So that sort of gives it the chaos energy that you would expect from an early
0:44.1	morning post-election episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. He has just compared me to
0:51.4	the fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that.
0:55.4	Next question.
0:56.2	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:58.8	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam.
1:01.8	I don't think I'm being rude.
1:03.2	I like landscapes.
1:04.3	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:06.0	Let's go have a tour.
1:07.7	Blimey.
1:08.6	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and I think Chris is there.
1:11.6	Yeah, hello.
1:12.6	Hello from a sports stadium in Wideness, not far from Liverpool, where I can tell you,
1:20.6	Adam, all the lights are on, the desks are now pretty much clear and in the last few minutes,
1:24.6	quite a moment, the doors were open and some light, natural light and fresh air flooded in.
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