Part 1

Laura Kuenssberg is your guide as the votes are counted in 2023’s bumper set of elections.

BBC correspondents are at the key counts all around the country.

In the studio, Reeta Chakrabarti crunches the numbers on her giant screens, and Professor Sir John Curtice assesses the underlying electoral trends.

The BBC’s political editor, Chris Mason, analyses what these elections mean for each political party, and senior politicians are on hand to give their verdict on the results.