While the results were overshadowed by the re-election of the Labour government, they did provide some comfort to the Conservative Party.

The results of the English local elections saw the Conservative party make significant progress, gaining control of a further five councils.

Warwickshire was lost by Labour, which was admittedly on a knife-edge, though this was despite swings in their favour in key Conservative targets such as Rugby & Kenilworth and Warwick & Leamington.

Despite the fact in 1997 when they won every constituency in Dorset (some by small margins admittedly), the council remained in no overall control.

Whereas this time when they gained control of it, they lost two parliamentary seats: Dorset South to Labour and Mid-Dorset & Poole North to the Lib Dems by small margins.