Live: Preston and Lancashire local elections 2025 results and updates

Reform gain Preston East with Luke Parker Pic: Blog Preston

The battle for County Hall takes place over the next 24-hours as the city and most of the county goes to the polls.

Voting takes place throughout Thursday (1 May) until 10pm and then we await the counts taking place throughout Friday (2 May).

Blog Preston will have updates, results, analysis and insights from the city and beyond as we keep you abreast of who will be in control at County Hall in Preston.

Lancashire County Council’s days are numbered due to the Devolution deal which is in place and the direction of travel towards an elected Mayor – but these are crucial years ahead for Preston and Lancashire.

We’ve had extensive coverage of the local elections – from the intense hustings which saw issues debated by the five main parties, skulduggery from Reform and our seat profiles on the majority of the divisions up for election in and around Preston.

Our updates will load below (you may need to wait a minute to see them). We have updates from Ed Walker and Alice Jones at the Preston count, Jamie Lopez will be deep in Ribble Valley and we’ll be relying on the superb Paul Faulkner, Local Democracy Reporter, who is due to be at South Ribble. While Luke Beardsworth keeps a keen eye over it all from BP towers. If you spot anything we should know about related to local elections, ping us on contactus@blogpreston.co.uk

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