Live: Bristol local election results 2024

8.07pm
Today’s results mean that the Green Party are just short of an outright majority at City Hall but it has been an incredibly successful local election for them. Looking at the national picture, the new electoral map of Bristol also sees Green councillors in every seat within the new Bristol Central constituency, which the Greens will now have even more firmly in their sights at the general election.

7.53pm
The new number of seats at City Hall
Green: 34
Labour: 21
Lib Dem: 8
Tories: 7

7.51pm
And that’s a wrap from the count, where despite microphone problems at Oasis Academy in Brislington, the Greens won both seats in Lawrence Hill.

7.47pm
With just Lawrence Hill ward still to declare, this is the current electoral state of play in Bristol.

7.13pm
The Lib Dems have had a tough day but celebrate with enthusiasm as Andrew Varney and Jos Clark are both re-elected in Brislington West.

6.59pm
Don Alexander, Zoe Peat and Tom Blenkinsop have held their Lawrence Weston seat after a recount, with 4,793 votes and a 25.77 per cent turn out. Their ward is the last at City Academy to be announced today.

Don Alexander (left) Zoe Peat (right) and Tom Blenkinsop (right) – photo: Mia Vines Booth

6.48pm
The current scores on the doors stand at 12 seats for Labour, 19 for Greens, seven for the Conservatives and three for the Lib Dems.

6.31pm
Labour have lost a seat to the Greens in Ashley ward. Former Lib Dem candidate, Easton businessman Abdul Malik, is one of three Greens elected here alongside Izzy Russell and Tim Wye.

6.05pm
There’s been a gigantic swing for the Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze ward which has traditionally been a Tory stronghold. Lib Dem candidates Caroline Gooch, Nicholas Coombes and Stephen Williams flipped all three candidates with a total of 9,545 votes. The three new councillors thanked swing voters in the area and said the result was “nationally significant” for the Lib Dems.

Former councillor and MP Stephen Williams (left) is making his return to City Hall alongside Caroline Gooch (centre) and Nicholas Coombes (right) – photo: Mia Vines Booth

5.59pm
There’s been a rush of results at City Academy as the Greens Lorraine Francis and Ed Fraser win Eastville, with Green group leader Heather Mack and fellow incumbent Green councillor David Wilcox re-elected in Lockleaze.

Labour have secured Frome Vale with councillors Al Al-Maghrabi and Louis Martin Greens, and also Hillfields with councillors Ellie King and Kelvin Blake. But it was bad news for former cabinet member Marley Bennett who lost his Eastville seat.

5.53pm
Rob Bryher is also making a return to City Hall for the Greens. He was previously a councillor for Ashley under his birth name, Rob Telford.

5.42pm
Greens gain a seat in Central ward from Labour, with Sibusiso Tshabalala elected as a new councillor alongside incumbent Ani Stafford-Townsend.

Ani Stafford-Townsend (left) congarulates new Green councillor Sibusiso Tshabalala (right) – photo: Martin Booth

5.33pm
Former councillor Jerome Thomas will make a return to the council benches after being elected in Clifton ward alongside former Green lord mayor, Paula O’Rourke.

5.17pm
Labour have made the first gain in this year’s local elections with former Conservative councillor Kevin Quartley losing his seat in Bishopsworth to Sue Kollar. Veteran Tory Richard Eddy regains his seat but by only nine votes.

5.03pm
The Green Party’s Guy Poultney and Mohamed Makawi retain their seats in Cotham, with the Green Party co-leader and former Bristol councillor, Carla Denyer, celebrating with them at the declaration.

4.57pm
The Greens have held Bishopston and Ashley Ward with Emma Edwards and James Crawford collecting 5,020 votes.

4.39pm
Former cabinet member Kye Dudd has been re-elected in Southmead alongside his Labour running mate, Kaz Self.

Kye Dudd (left) and Kaz Self (right) are Labour’s winning candidates in Southmead – photo: Mia Vines Booth

5.47pm
Labour’s Tom Renhard and Deborah Vittori have secured Horfield with a total of 2,980 votes.

4.21pm
Mark Weston, Bristol’s Tory group leader, said: “I’m delighted. It’s really lovely to be re-elected. It’s humbling that so many people support Bador and myself in Henbury & Brentry. Obviously, a thank you goes to all the other candidates that kept it a clean and, I think, fair campaign in Henbury & Brentry and we’ve got a job to do and we’re going to be doing that for the next four years. Forgive me for not putting the cart in front of the force, but actually at this point, we’re one of the first ones to declare a Conservative ward so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.”

4.09pm
The Tories are currently the largest party at City Hall after Mark Weston and Bador Uddin were elected in Henbury & Brentry. Okay, they are only the third and fourth councillors to be elected in Bristol so far but this might be as rosey as the picture gets for the Conservatives in Bristol today.

It was a Tory clean-sweep in Henbury & Brentry for Bador Uddin (left) and Mark Weston (right) – photo: Mia Vines Booth

3.54pm
Bristol now has two councillors after Fabian Breckels retained his seat for Labour in St George Troopers Hill. He won 811 votes.

Fabian Breckels has served as a councillor since 2007 – photo: Martin Booth

3.39pm
“It’s been a long 15 months to get to this stage but I am proud to be able to continue working hard for Hotwells & Harbourside for the next four years, and to work to turn the whole of Bristol Green,” McAllister said in his victory speech.

Patrick McAllister (right) is congraullated by Martin Fodor after being declared the winner of the Hotwells & Harbourside ward – photo: Martin Booth

3.20pm
The Greens have not just won the Hotwells & Harbourside ward; they have absolutely swept the floor here. Incumbent councillor Patrick McAllister has retained his seat in what used to be a Lib Dem stronghold until a by-election last year. McAllister won 974 votes, Labour 336, Lib Dem 109, Tory 86 and TUSC 26. This ward is one of Bristol’s smallest with only one elected representative.

2.56pm
Hotwells & Harbourside looks likely to be the first of Bristol’s 34 wards to be declared.

2.37pm
Candidates keep a keen eye on the count in the sports hall at City Academy. The wards due to be announced here today are Stoke Bishop, Eastville, Lockleaze, Bishopston & Ashley Down, Henbury & Brentry, Horfield, Westbury on Trym & Henleaze, Southmead, Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston, Frome Vale and Hillfields.

Counting continues at City Academy – photo: Mia Vines Booth

2.27pm
Will we have a ‘Portillo moment’ today? Across England, the Conservative Party has currently lost 192 council seats. In Bristol, they hold 14 seats. ‘Big beasts’ such as Richard Eddy and Mark Weston have bestrode City Hall for decades. Their future as councillors is far from guaranteed.

Tory big beast Richard Eddy is a councillor for Bishopsworth – photo: LDRS

2.03pm
Turnouts from different wards are slowly being confirmed. So far the lowest turnouts are Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston and Southmead with 26 per cent, with the highest 52 per cent in Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze.

1.51pm
BBC-funded local democracy reporter Adam Postans has created a swingometer out of crisps. This is about as exciting as things are getting so far at the count in Brislington.

1.34pm
This is the scene at Oasis Academy in Brislington. Council staff are in place ready to begin the counts and candidates are milling around in rosettes.

23 wards are being counted at Oasis Academy in Brislington – photo: Martin Booth

1.21pm
At City Academy, ballot papers are currently being separated into block votes, multiple voters and doubtful papers. Councillors from all parties are watching on as votes are separated.

Count staff in the sports hall at City Academy in Redfield – photo: Mia Vines Booth

12.58pm
It’s very strict at these counts. What’s the penalty if one breaks the Official Secrets Act? I think it’s being sent to the Tower of London to be hung, drawn and quartered and then fed to the ravens.

11.46am
Here are the results from the last local elections in Bristol that took place in 2021. (The two Lib Dems in Knowle have sinced formed the breakaway Knowle Community Party and the Greens won the Hotwells & Harbourside by-election.) How much will it change today?

11.30am
Welcome to our live blog of the results of Bristol’s local elections. Counting is due to start at 1pm at two locations, with all 70 seats at City Hall up for grabs.

Results will be declared for each ward individually, with 11 wards being counted at City Academy in Redfield and 23 at Oasis Academy in Brislington.

We’ve already had one election declared today: Labour’s Clare Moody is the new Avon & Somerset police & crime commissioner, but she was elected with a turnout of just over 23 per cent.

Main photo: Martin Booth

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