Election 2011: the full results - AV referendum and English councils

AV REFERENDUM
(Result expected today at 8pm)

Under First Past the Post, voters select their favoured candidate by marking [x] in the box next to his/her name. The candidate with the most votes wins even if this is not 50%.
In elections held under the Alternative Vote, voters rank the candidates in order of preference [1],[2],[3] etc. If a candidate has 50% of first-preference votes, then he/she is elected; if the 50% threshold is not reached, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their second-preference votes distributed, and so on until one candidate has more than 50% of the vote or the preferences are exhausted.

Question: At present, the UK uses the first past the post system to to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the Alternative Vote System be used instead?
YES 31.6% (5,863,819 votes)
NO 68.3% (12,640,417 votes)
439 of 440 districts declared.

ENGLISH COUNCIL ELECTIONS

ALL English Council elections are held under First Past the Post. Metropolitan Borough councils and Unitary authorities are responsible for all local government matters such as council tax collection, education, housing, planning applications, bin collections, social services, transport planning, and leisure and recreation.
District councils only deal with some areas such as council tax, housing, planning applications, bin collections, and leisure and recreation but not others such as education, social services or transport planning.
In some areas, the whole council is up for election while, in others, one-third of council members are up for election as the other two-thirds of members are only part of the way through their four-year terms.

OVERALL COMPOSITION
Councils
Conservatives 157 (+4)
Labour 57 (+26)
Liberal Democrats 10 (-10)
Other 1 (-2)
No overall control 54 (-18)

Councillors
Conservatives 4820 (+81)
Labour 2392 (+800)
Liberal Democrats 1056 (-695)
Other 761 (-199)

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH (one-third)
Conservatives
Dudley
Solihull - CON gain from NOC
Trafford
Labour
Barnsley
Bolton - LAB gain from NOC
Bury - LAB gain from NOC
Coventry
Doncaster
Gateshead
Knowsley
Leeds - LAB gain from NOC
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle upon Tyne - LAB gain from LD
North Tyneside - LAB gain from NOC
Oldham - LAB gain from NOC
Rotherham
St Helens
Salford
Sandwell
Sheffield - LAB gain from NOC
South Tyneside
Sunderland
Tameside
Wakefield
Wigan
Wolverhampton - LAB gain from NOC
No overall control
Birmingham
Bradford
Calderdale
Kirklees
Rochdale
Sefton
Walsall - NOC gain from Con
Wirral


UNITARY (whole)
Conservatives
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Central Bedfordshire
Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester
East Riding of Yorkshire
Herefordshire
Medway
North Lincolnshire - CON gain from Lab
North Somerset
Rutland
Torbay
West Berkshire
Windsor and Maidenhead Royal
Labour
Blackpool - LAB gain from Con
Darlington
Leicester
Luton
Middlesbrough
Nottingham
Redcar and Cleveland - LAB gain from NOC
Stoke-on-Trent - LAB gain from NOC
Telford and Wrekin - LAB gain from NOC
York - LAB gain from NOC
No overall control
Bath and North East Somerset
Bedford
Brighton and Hove
Poole - NOC gain from Con
South Gloucestershire
Stockton-on-Tees

UNITARY (one-third)
Conservatives
Peterborough
Plymouth
Southampton
Southend-on-Sea
Swindon
Wokingham
Labour
Blackburn with Darwen - LAB gain from NOC
Halton
Hartlepool
Kingston upon Hull - LAB gain from LD
Slough
Warrington - LAB gain from NOC
Liberal Democrats
Portsmouth
No overall control
Bristol - NOC gain from LD
Derby
Milton Keynes
North East Lincolnshire
Reading
Thurrock


DISTRICTS (whole)
Conservatives
Arun
Ashford
Aylesbury Vale
Blaby
Boston - CON gain from Ind
Braintree
Breckland
Broadland
Bromsgrove
Canterbury
Charnwood
Chelmsford
Chichester
Chiltern
Christchurch
Cotswold
Dacorum
Dartford
Derbyshire Dales
Dover
East Cambridgeshire
East Devon
East Dorset
East Hampshire
East Hertfordshire
East Northamptonshire
East Staffordshire
Erewash
Fenland
Forest Heath
Fylde
Gedling
Guildford
Hambleton
Harborough
Horsham
Kettering
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Lewes - CON gain from LD
Lichfield
Maldon
Malvern Hills
Melton
Mendip - CON gain from NOC
Mid Devon - CON gain from NOC
Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex
New Forest
Northampton - CON gain from LDNorth Dorset
North Kesteven
North Norfolk - CON gain from LD
North West Leicestershire
Ribble Valley
Rother
Rushcliffe
Ryedale - CON gain from NOC
Sedgemoor
Selby
Sevenoaks
Shepway
South Buckinghamshire
South Derbyshire
South Hams
South Holland
South Kesteven
South Norfolk
South Northamptonshire
South Oxfordshire
South Ribble
South Staffordshire
Spelthorne
St Edmundsbury
Stafford
Suffolk Coastal
Surrey Heath
Swale
Teignbridge - CON gain from NOC
Tendring - CON gain from NOC
Test Valley
Tewkesbury - CON gain from NOC
Tonbridge and Malling
Uttlesford
Vale of White Horse - CON gain from LD
Warwick
Waverley
Wealdon
Wellingborough
West Devon - CON gain from NOC
West Dorset
West Somerset - CON gain from Ind
Wychavon
Wycombe
Wyre
Labour
Ashfield - LAB gain from NOC
Barrow-in-Furness - LAB gain from NOC
Bolsover
Chesterfield - LAB gain from LD
Copeland
Corby
Gravesham - LAB gain from Con
North East Derbyshire
North Warwickshire - LAB gain from Con
Liberal Democrats
Eastbourne
Hinckley and Bosworth
Oadby and Wigston
South Somerset
Other
Epsom and Ewell RA
No overall control
Allerdale
Barbergh
Broxtowe
East Lindsey
Eden
Forest of Dean
High Peak - NOC gain from Con
Lancaster
Newark and Sherwood - NOC gain from Con
North Devon - NOC gain from Con
Richmondshire
Scarborough
Staffordshire Moorlands - NOC gain from Con
Taunton Deane
Thanet - NOC gain from Con
Torridge
Waveney - NOC gain from Con

DISTRICTS (one-third)
Conservatives
Amber Valley
Basildon
Basingstoke and Deane
Brentwood
Broxbourne
Castle Point
Cherwell
Craven
Crawley
Daventry
Elmbridge
Epping Forest
Gloucester - CON gain from NOC
Great Yarmouth
Harlow
Harrogate - CON gain from NOC
Hart
Havant
Hertsmere
Huntingdonshire
Maidstone
North Hertfordshire
Redditch
Reigate and Banstead
Rochford
Rugby
Runnymede
Rushmoor
South Cambridgeshire
Stratford-on-Avon
Tamworth
Tandridge
Tunbridge Wells
Welwyn Hatfield
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Oxfordshire
Woking - CON gain from NOC
Worcester - CON gain from NOC
Worthing
Wyre Forest
Labour
Bassetlaw - LAB gain from NOC
Hyndburn - LAB gain from NOC
Ipswich - LAB gain from NOC
Lincoln - LAB gain from NOC
Preston - LAB gain from NOC
Stevenage
Liberal Democrats
Cambridge
Eastleigh
South Lakeland
Three Rivers
Watford
No overall control
Burnley
Cannock Chase
Carlisle
Chorley - NOC gain from Con
Colchester
Exeter
Mole Valley
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Norwich
Pendle
Purbeck
Rossendale - NOC gain from Con
St Albans - NOC gain from LD
Stroud - NOC gain from Con
Weymouth and Portland
Winchester


MAYORAL
Bedford
Leicester
Mansfield
Middlesbrough
Torbay

LEICESTER SOUTH BY-ELECTION Labour hold
John Ashworth Labour 19771 (57.8%, +12.2%)
Jane Hunt Conservatives 5169 (15.1%, -6.3%)
Zuffar Haq Liberal Democrats 7693 (22.5%, -4.4%)
Abhijit Pandya UKIP 994 (2.9%, +1.4%)
Howling Laud Hope MRLP 553 (1.6%)
Total votes 34180 Turnout: ? Majority 12078