Local council election results 2016

Labour's Marvin Rees has been announced as the new Mayor of Bristol. He beat George Ferguson by 29,000 votes.

It appears that Jeremy Corbyn is on his way to Bristol to support Marvin Rees in his bid to become the next Bristol Mayor.

George Ferguson has already updated his Twitter description to say "Bristol Mayor 2012-16", despite formal declaration still to be announced.

We are just hours away from finding out who will be the next Bristol Mayor. Results are due to be announced between 4pm and 6pm.

In the first round of votes Labour's Marvin Rees was 24,000 votes ahead of George Ferguson. There was a total of 142,000 votes.

Yesterday George Ferguson appeared to be conceding defeat to Labour's Marvin Rees. He posted on Twitter thanking his campaign team and said "without big party resources they had done their best for Bristol"

He also tweeted that he may get his life back and thanked everyone who voted.

Results have been coming in throughout the day for a number of elections in the West. The biggest news may well be in the race to become Bristol Mayor. The votes will be counted tomorrow but the current mayor George Ferguson appears to be conceding defeat to Labour's Marvin Rees.

Earlier today he tweeted his thanks to his campaign team and said without big party resources they had done their best for Bristol.

He also tweeted that he may get his life back and thanked everyone who voted.

There was no overall change to the council in Stroud, with the greens taking a seat from each of the conservatives and the lib dems. But it still means no one party has overall control.

The conservatives have the most seats on the council - 23 - but say it was a disappointing day.

Sue Mountstevens has been re-elected as Avon and Somerset's Police and Crime Commissioner. She received 118,547 votes. Second was Kerry Barker with 100,565 votes.

There was a 64% turnout for the election with 325,456 casting a vote.