Sky News looks ahead to a potentially defining night for Rishi Sunak's premiership, when hundreds of council seats, police and crime commissioner jobs, and mayoral posts will be up for grabs.
Voters across England and Wales are set to go to the polls on 2 May, in what will be the largest test of electoral opinion before the next general election. Most of the seats up for grabs on Thursday - when the public will also cast their verdict on 10 metro mayors across England - were last fought in 2021, postponed from 2020 owing to the pandemic.
Why are these elections significant? Local elections always provide a good test for how well the governing party is faring with the electorate - and will be of even more value in an election year. Sky News will be using these local election results to calculate a National Equivalent Vote - a figure that estimates the vote share parties would have received had elections been carried out across all local authorities.
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