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Puppet nation 144 local elections 2016 special
The 2016 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 5 May 2016 were a series of local elections which were held in 124 local councils and also saw 4 mayoral elections in England which also coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the London Assembly, the London mayoral election and the England & Wales Police and crime commissioners. These proved to be David Cameron's last local elections as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister as he resigned the following month.
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Results
Full results as reported by BBC News; popular vote recorded by Britain Elects.
As these local elections were held in 124 English councils, out of 418 in the whole of the UK, the BBC calculated a Projected National Vote Share (PNV), which aims to assess what the council results indicate the UK-wide vote would be "if the results were repeated at a general election".
The BBC's Projected National Vote Share was 31% for Labour, 30% for the Conservatives, 15% for the Liberal Democrats and 12% for UKIP. These results are included in the infobox for this article.
Whole metropolitan council
Three of 36 metropolitan boroughs had all of their seats up for election.
One-third of metropolitan council
32 of 36 metropolitan boroughs had one-third of their seats up for election.
Whole unitary council
3 unitary authorities had all of their seats up for election.
One-third of unitary council
16 unitary authorities had one-third of their seats up for election.
Whole district councils
12 District Councils had all of their seats up for election.
Half of councils
7 non-metropolitan district councils had half of their seats up for election.
One-third of district councils
51 non-metropolitan district councils had one-third of their seats up for election.
Mayoral elections
Four direct mayoral elections were held.
Police and Crime Commissioner elections
36 elections for Police and Crime Commissioners were held.
Police and Crime Commissioner elections
Four elections for Police and Crime Commissioners were held.