Hi, Helen Sullivan joining you now. I’ll be steering the good ship Ballot for the next little while. If you’d like to get in touch with news, videos or your most profound thoughts, the best place is on Twitter @helenrsullivan or via email: helen.sullivan@theguardian.com. Summary of today"s results The SNP has won 64 seats in Holyrood – just short of an outright majority by 1. This is a historic result for the party and – together with the Scottish Greens’ 8 seats – voters have elected a majority of pro-independence candidates. Former SNP leader Alex Salmond’s Alba party failed to win a seat. Welsh Labour have won 30 of the Senedd’s 60 seats, matching the party’s best-ever result. This puts Labour, who gained 1 vote since the last election, just 1 vote away from a majority in Wales’ parliament. Keir Starmer has sacked Angela Rayner from her roles as party chair and national campaign coordinator – a move that has triggered widespread anger among Labour MPs. London has reelected Sadiq Khan as mayor, with the Labour incumbent gaining 55.2% of the total vote. Conservative Shaun Bailey came second with 44.8% – a better result than expected. Labour candidate Nik Johnson (51.3%) gained the mayoralty of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, winning the seat from Conservative incumbent James Palmer. There was another gain for Labour in the West of England, which declared Dan Norris mayor with 59.5% of the total vote, while Tory candidate Samuel Williams got 40.5%. In other mayoral races, Labour held Doncaster, Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Liverpool city region, North Tyneside and Salford. The Conservatives held Tees Valley and West Midlands. Results for the mayoral races in West Yorkshire and Bristol have not been declared yet. Across England, 132 councils have been declared out of a total of 143 so far on the second day of the count. The Tories have won 58 councils – an increase of 12 – while Labour has won 44, a loss of 7. The Lib Dems remain steady with 5 councils, while 25 councils are under no overall control. That’s all from me for tonight – I’m handing over to my colleague Helen Sullivan. Thanks for following along this evening. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, has become the latest Labour MP to speak out against Keir Starmer’s sacking of Angela Rayner: Labour MP Nadia Whittome also criticised the move: No candidate has emerged with a majority in first preference votes in the race for Bristol mayor, meaning voters’ second choices will now be tallied. Here are the first preference results: Marvin Rees (Lab) 50,510 Sandy Hore-Ruthven (Green) 36,331 Alastair Watson (Con) 25,816 Caroline Gooch (Lib Dem) 15,517 Sean Donnelly (Independent) 4,956 Sadiq Khan has thanked voters for their support after he was reelected as London mayor. Khan tweeted: “Thank you London. It’s the absolute honour of my life to serve the city I love for another three years. “I’ll leave no stone unturned to get our city back on its feet. A brighter future is possible, and we’ll deliver it together.” London reelects Sadiq Khan for mayor Labour’s Sadiq Khan has been reelected as London mayor following the counting of second preference votes. Khan will serve a second term after winning a total of 1,206,034 votes (55.2%), while the Conservative candidate, Shaun Bailey, came second with 977,601 (44.8%). Although Khan was expected to secure a second term, Bailey has performed better than expected, closing in on Labour with 35.3% of the first preference vote while incumbent Khan got 40%. The Labour party has lost its majority on Durham council for the first time in 100 years. The council is now under no overall control. It is nearly 11pm and we are still waiting for the result for London mayor. Here is what we have so far on first preference votes: After the first preference votes, Labour’s Sadiq Khan had 1,013,721 (40%) while Conservative Shaun Bailey had 893,051 (35.3%). Siân Berry of the Green party came third with 197, 976 (7.8%) while the Liberal Democrats’ Luisa Porritt was fourth with 111,796 (4.4%). Turnout: 42.2% Here’s a look at how the papers have responded to the latest round of election results – a mix of SNP’s victory and Angela Rayner’s sacking: After some delay, Labour has won the City & East London assembly seat, with its candidate Unmesh Desai elected. This gives Labour nine seats on the London assembly while the Conservatives have five. From the Evening Standard’s Rachael Burford as we wait for the City & East London assembly result: We’re also still waiting for the London mayor result to be announced as second preferences are tallied. The result of London’s mayoral election has been delayed until 10pm, according to officials at City Hall. In Wales, Natasha Asghar has become the first woman from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background to be elected to the Senedd. She follows her late father, Mohammad Asghar, who was also a member of the Senedd until he died in 2020. He was the first person from a BAME background to be elected to the assembly, as it was then called. Like her father, Asghar, who is of Pakistani heritage, has become a Conservative member for the the South Wales East region. She told ITV News it felt “absolutely amazing” to be the first BAME female MS. “To be the first woman is just incredible,” she said. The Electoral Reform Society Wales welcomed the moment but expressed concern it had taken so long and pointed out that the number of female MSs is down to 26 from 29 prior to the 2021 election. The Welsh Conservative Senedd leader, Andrew RT Davies, said he was “thrilled” that Asghar had made history. The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, has promised to offer “credible alternative” to the SNP over the next five years, despite the party’s poorest Scottish results since devolution. The party returned 22 MSPs, down from 24 in 2016. Sarwar said: “We’re on a journey to build a credible alternative to the SNP. “Not just oppose the SNP, but to build a credible alternative. And that job doesn’t stop with this election campaign. “I think even my harshest critics would accept we have run an energetic and enthusiastic campaign, we got Labour back on the pitch. “That is something for us to build on for the next five years.”