Notable how much this year's local results for Con+Lab were favourably skewed by London's elections falling this year
Proportional seat change
Lab
London: -40%
Unitaries: -69%
Districts: -73%
Counties: -73%
Metros: -75%
Con
London: +1%
Metros: -49%
Districts: -49%
Unitaries: -57%
Counties: -76%
Dylan Difford
🧵/ Let's put Labour's local election results into perspective...
They lost 58% of the seats they were defending, the 10th worst performance for any party in the last sixty years and the 5th worst for a govt.
This compares to the Tories losing 48-53% in the locals prior to their landslide defeats.
