UK anti-immigration reforms make extensive gains in UK local elections | Local elections 2025

The UK’s anti-immigration and Trump’s unanimous British party have made huge gains in the UK local elections, challenging the traditional political rule of the country’s two major political parties, the Labor and the Conservative Party.

Reform leader Nigel Farage claims that after the reform won control of at least six county councils, his party has surpassed the main opposition in Britain, one of which is the mayor, one and nearly defeated the parliament's Labor Party in parliament's ire to be a safe seat.

Due to the May 1 election, vote counting is still being counted on Friday, and the comprehensive vote on labor and the Conservatives appear to have fallen well below 50%, the first time in modern political history.

In some counties in the central region and in northern England, reform won over 60% of the vote, taking advantage of disillusionment with the Labor government, as well as the Conservatives as opposition and their records from 2010 to 2024. Reforms mainly campaigned for anti-immigration sentiment, which sought to be cultivated early on. The Liberal Democrats also violated more modestly in some councils, mainly at the expense of conservatives.

Nationally, reforms won 30% of the vote, giving Labor the second place, Liberal Democrats 17% and Conservatives downgraded to fourth place with 15% of the vote

A parliamentary by-election held on Thursday was in Runcorn and Helsby, near Liverpool in northwest England, where the current working MP was convicted of assaulting members. The party won the election with 53% of the vote, a solid labor seat, but on Thursday it underwent a six-vote reform, a solid labor seat, a condemnation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Starmer acknowledged the results were “disappointing” and said he would learn from the setbacks, adding: “We need to learn more quickly about the changes people want to see.”

Starmer tried to compete with reform by announcing stricter policies to curb illegal immigration, but many complained that he had traveled too far to the traditional measures of the labor force by introducing austerity measures such as cutting payments for winter fuel, and alienated the traditional measures of Labor.

Political analysts say reform has performed particularly well in the field of many pensioners and a handful of college graduates.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the results show that the country has "enough" with the Labor government but is "not ready to trust us".

Farage, who won 65 of 98 council seats at a rally in Durham, claimed that the vote “signs the end of more than a century of bipartisan politics we know in this country.” He said this was "the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party."

Farage praised Donald Trump for his “inspiration”, saying that in the current reformed county council, the party will try to block government efforts to place asylum seekers in local hotels.

When asked if the Council has the right to do so, he replied: “We will give it a try.”