Labour has lost in Southampton, with the city council now having no party majority.

After 16 of 17 seats declared, Labour lost nine seats and the Conservatives lost four.

Meanwhile, Reform has gained seven, the Lib Dems gained two and the Greens gained four.

Patrick O'Hagan
Political reporter, Berkshire

This was supposed to be a night where Reform made their mark in Reading, and while they started the night with one councillor on the borough and were hoping to gain a few more, that's not how it turned out as they no longer have even the one councillor.

The Greens will have rolled into their beds in the early hours happy with their night's work after gaining an extra three seats.

While there had been a lot of nervous Labour faces as the count got away last night they'll be feeling relieved at the way it panned out.

Labour remain comfortably in control of Reading Borough Council dropping just a few seats. As for the Conservatives they surprised many. They now have a couple more councillors than they did this time yesterday.

About 20 minutes ago we told you there was no overall control at Oxford City Council. The full results are now in with the Greens gaining five seats from Labour.

The Lib Dems and Independents have remained the same.

The results are in for Fareham Borough Council.

The Conservatives lost one seat while Reform gained one. The Lib Dems, Labour and Independents remained the same.

Victoria Walton
South of England, Oxford

Oxford will have its first black mayor after Chewe Munkonge was re-elected.

It was announced in March that councillor Munkonge, who grew up in Zambia, could take on the ceremonial role subject to his re-election as city councillor for Quarry and Risinghurst.

The office of Lord Mayor can only be awarded to an elected official, who then holds the position for a year before passing it on to a new appointee.

We wrote about this more here.

With 21 of 24 seats declared we have a result in Oxford and the city council will remain no overall control.

The Greens have gained five seats and Labour has lost five.

Patrick Hughes
BBC South, in Portsmouth

Steve Pitt, leader of the Lib Dems for Portsmouth City Council, has been talking after the party took control of the authority.

He said: "It's a brilliant result for us, but it's also a great result for Portsmouth.

"It's a vote of confidence in a hard-working team that really understand how Portsmouth works."

He said to get overall control is an even better result than he was expecting.

"It's not about the party in control having domination over everything," he said, and vowed to work cross-party.

But he added: "I think some people were expecting to do rather better tonight than they have"

About 10 minutes ago we told you how Labour had held Reading Borough Council.

The full results are now in. Labour did lose four seats overall, with three going to the Greens and one to the Conservatives.

Victoria Walton
Oxfordshire Political Reporter

Scores on the doors at just over halfway here in Oxford: Labour 5, Greens 5 and the Lib Dems 3.

Still nothing for Reform or the Conservatives. Voter turn out for the city is high at 43.5%.

Labour's leader, Susan Brown, has held her Churchill seat.

Will she be able to form an administration though? Labour look to still be the biggest party, but could the Greens and the Lib Dems join forces and boot them out? We might only know after a weekend of hard discussions..

Patrick O'Hagan
Political reporter, Berkshire

While there's been a lot of talk about how well Reform will do tonight it's not all good news for the party.

Clarence Mitchell who was the only Reform councillor on the borough lost his seat.

Disappointed he's no longer a councillor he's putting a brave face on it.

After 13 of 17 seats declared, Labour has held Reading Borough Council, but lost two seats.

The Greens and the Conservatives have gained one seat, while the Lib Dems remained the same.

Tristan Pascoe
Political Reporter

Green candidate Luke Reynolds wins a seat on Southampton City Council after standing as a councillor for the very first time, taking the seat from Labour by just 37 votes.

He said national politics certainly was a factor: "A lot of the stuff that happens with Labour locally is to do with the national picture. The country wants a different way of running the Government, and the country wants a different way of running councils.

"We want to bring communities together again. That's what the Green Party is saying it's going to do, that's what we're going to do and that's what people want."

He added: "We're going to get more seats in the coming years. This is just the start of it."

Some very happy faces in Portsmouth this morning as the Lib Dems keep every seat they were defending on the city council. The party also gained three seats to take overall control of the authority from no overall control.

Sophie Cridland
BBC South, in Havant

In Havant, volunteers are sat chatting and waiting trying to pass the time.

The count has not begun yet because of delays following an issue with a boundary line between North East and North West Havant.

Some of the votes in those areas will be counted in the voter turnout but they will not be counted towards the candidate vote.

Instead the votes will be sealed and labelled by the returning officer.

The remainder of the votes in the two divisions will be counted as normal and declared.

Sharon Colings, the Reform UK group leader, said she is deeply disappointed: "It is very difficult to get our residents and voters to come out in the first place.

"We have run a phenomenal campaign so to have voters votes that are going to be void is absolutely outrageous and as a voter how would it make you feel about voting again?"

Patrick Hughes
BBC South, in Portsmouth

It's a majority for the Lib Dems here in Portsmouth - they've kept every seat they were defending, and have gained three on top of that to take control of the city council.

On the flip side, it's been a terrible night for Labour who've lost all five seats they were defending.

Reform picked up five seats and the room is now half empty.

Earlier we told you about Pascual Jean Louis, an independent candidate at Reading Borough Council who says he wants to be the President of France.

So, we tracked him down to find out why he was standing to be a councillor and here he is complete with full Napoleon regalia.

You can read more here.

Sophie Cridland
BBC South, Havant

In Havant, Phillipa Gray from the Lib Dems is anticipating a disappointing night.

She said: “Right now it doesn’t seem to be as well as we’d hope but the count isn’t over yet. Politics is never boring. Sometimes it’s painful but never boring.”

Emily Hudson
BBC South Political Editor

The first three seats on Hampshire County Council have been declared.

All three have been held by the Conservatives. What's interesting is they are the three Andover seats, West, South and North. In the Test Valley part of the county, these were the three Reform had been hopeful of taking. The faces are glum.

As we wait for the first results from Portsmouth, here's our reporter Anjana Gadgil talking to voters in the city about how they would spend £1m if they were elected.

Victoria Walton
Oxfordshire Political Reporter

We told you earlier about Emily Lygo who was bidding to join her father on Oxford City Council, but it wasn't to be and she has lost out to the Oxford's Lib Dem leader, Chris Smowton.