Local election results 2021: Hour-by-hour guide to when results will be announced across the country
The Super Thursday set of local elections will be the biggest in many years
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The chips are down in the tense elections battle today - and Rishi Sunak took the chance to tuck in as he campaigned in Wales.
The Chancellor risked a snack in full glare of cameras as he canvassed in Rhyl on the eve of crucial ballots across Britain.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson was in the West Midlands desperately trying to calm expectations that the Tories will hang on to the mayoralty there, as well as the keeping control of Tees Valley and seizing the Hartlepool Commons seat from Labour.
And Sir Keir Starmer has been in Yorkshire as he faces a hard-Left threat if the results over the coming days are as dire as many fear. He insisted he will take responsibility for the outcome - but argued that he has not had long enough to change the party s fortunes after the disastrous Corbyn era.
– What elections are being held?
Votes are being held across Great Britain – some of which should have happened last year, but were postponed due to the pandemic.
Scotland and Wales will both elect members to their respective parliaments, and Londoners will choose representatives for the city’s Assembly.
Many areas across England will also choose mayors. As well as Sadiq Khan defending his role in London, regional mayors will be elected for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands, West of England and – for the first time – West Yorkshire.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during a visit to Earlsfield Amateur Boxing Club in Wandsworth, south-west London, whilst on the campaign trail (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
How will voting be different this year? You can vote in person at a polling station, which will be open from 7am to 10pm. If there’s a queue, you’ll still be able to vote as long as you joined it before 10pm. Due to the pandemic, there will be safety measures in place. They will be familiar measures: hands, face, space. Social distancing rules will apply and there may be a limit on how many people are allowed inside the polling station. When you go inside, you much wear a face covering like you do when you go into shops or on public transport.
Keir Starmer admitted he has a mountain to climb today as shock polls showed he is on track for disaster on Super Thursday .
Survation research found the Tories are set for a stunning victory in Hartlepool, with their candidate Jill Mortimer 17 points clear in the by-election for a Westminster seat that the party has never held.
Separate polls have also found that the Tories are on course to romp home in the West Midlands and Tees Valley mayoral battles - cementing their control of the Red Wall that delivered the historic Commons majority in 2019.
The Hartlepool survey for ITV s Good Morning Britain comes with health warnings as it is a relatively small sample, and was conducted a week ago before Boris Johnson s wallpapergate scandal fully took hold.