Helen Godwin has held the West of England Combined Authority mayor role for Labour but it was a close race with Reform UK.

Reform's Sarah Pochin was declared winner of the seat of Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by six votes after a recount.

Nigel Farage’s party has secured its fifth MP after it clinched the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes. Thursday’s elections have also delivered the rightwing party’s first mayor, after Dame Andrea Jenkyns won the race in Lincolnshire with 42 per cent of the vote against the second-placed Tories’ 26.1 per cent.