Election results pour in from across UK

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Results are being declared in local elections in England and the Scottish Parliament with Wales to come later. BBC analysis of key wards in England suggests Labour's vote is down eight points on 2012 when they were last contested but up three points on last year. The Tories are holding their 2012 vote share but down on 2015. The Lib Dems are recovering slightly and UKIP are holding on to the vote share they won at the general election. Election results: Latest updates Elections 2016: What to watch out for In-depth coverage of Scottish results In-depth coverage of Welsh results In Scotland, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is expected to lead her party to a third successive term in office. The Conservatives have won the Holyrood seat of Eastwood from Labour, amid speculation the party could be beaten into third place in Scotland. The Labour vote share is down 12% so far in Scotland. The Lib Dems held Orkney and Shetland, while the SNP took Rutherglen from Labour. 'Knife edge' Other elections include the high-profile London mayoral contest as well as other mayoral races in Bristol, Liverpool and Salford. The London result is not expected until Friday evening. Labour is fighting to retain control of the Welsh Assembly as UKIP hopes to gain its first seats. Labour has held the Westminster seat of Sheffield Brightside in a by-election, on a 5.8% swing from the Conservatives, with UKIP coming second. The party also held Ogmore in another Parliamentary by-election, Ogmore, in South Wales. Police and crime commissioners are also being elected in England and Wales. By BBC Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar The English local council seats up for grabs were won at the height of Labour's popularity under Ed Miliband - though that's not saying a great deal. Now, losses look inevitable, and a pantheon of psephologists predict 150, 190, more? Mr Corbyn's Labour enemies have set the bar for respectability impossibly high. Four hundred gains are the minimum to show progress, according to the likes of defeated leadership contender Liz Kendall, and given the fact Labour's trailing the Conservatives in the national polls, she might as well have demanded 400,000. If Labour comes third in Scotland - though that's not thought very likely - or loses in London - something almost no-one expects to happen, the hair-rending and teeth-gnashing will be so frenzied as to leave the entire Labour Party, Corbynistas and anti-Corbynistas alike, bald and toothless. As it is, we can expect a cacophonous set of rival choruses. Those loyal to the leader blaming the disloyalty of dissident MPs for vote-sapping disunity. And those who want the leader gone blaming him; demanding a change of direction and some a change of leader. Read John's full analysis UKIP leader Nigel Farage told the BBC his party was "now eating into the old Labour vote" in England and predicted advances in Wales and Northern Ireland - while adding: "In Scotland, it's pretty knife-edge." But Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: "We are laying the foundations for a four-year programme." "If you compare, from when Jeremy took over to now, we are on a clear path of improvement. That's exactly what our strategy is all about." He said in Scotland the picture was "complex" and Labour was "at the early stages" of rebuilding support having been "wiped out" in 2015. Labour held Nuneaton and Bedworth - one of the areas it failed to make the gains it needed to in last year's general election, but lost three wards, with the Conservatives gaining three. With 60 of the BBC's key wards declared, polling expert Prof John Curtice said it looked as though Labour will be able to claim some progress compared with last year but will both suffer losses compared with 2012, the first local elections under Ed Milliband's leadership. He said it would not necessarily be a good night for the Conservatives - and any gain in seats tells us more about Labour's loss of support than any necessary increase in Conservative votes. It looks as though the Lib Dems will be able to claim some recovery from the position in 2015, as compared with then their vote is up by three points on average in the BBC's key wards. However the 2015 results were the Lib Dems' worst set of elections in recent electoral history and compared with both 2011 and 2012 the party's vote is down on average by three points. Meanwhile, Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham is considering standing to become mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017, it has emerged. For the Conservatives, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan predicted the London mayoral race would be a "close result" but said the local elections would be a test of "whether the Labour Party is in touch with working people across the country". BBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt has been leaked a copy of the lines Labour MPs have been told to take as the results come out to explain any losses.