It’s been another night of gains for the Liberal Democrats in local elections.

In Cornwall, we gained our 5th seat of the year, this time from UKIP whose vote tanked, in the Four Lanes ward, going from a standing start to getting 34.7% of the vote:

Four Lanes (Cornwall) result:

LDEM: 34.7% (+34.7)

IND: 16.6% (+16.6)

CON: 14.8% (-5.8)

LAB: 14.5% (-5.7)

MK: 12.8% (-0.9)

UKIP: 6.6% (-21.9) — Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 1, 2016

In Hampshire, a thrilling Parish Council contest saw Jack Davies elected after the drawing of lots. He and the Conservative candidate had 401 votes each. No doubt that will be brought up in training sessions ad infinitum to highlight the importance of keeping going until the polls close.

In Otley, we held two town council seats.

Meet your new councillors for #Ashfield in #Otley after a long polling day – Cllr Holmes & Cllr Robinson! pic.twitter.com/eo5VcZyzdW — Leeds NW Lib Dems (@LeedsNWLibDems) September 1, 2016

In Stockton, Nick Webb flew the Lib Dem flag in a much more challenging contest. We were already in single figures but 44 people turned out to vote for him. If he hadn’t stood, they might lose that habit of going and voting Lib Dem. Thanks to Nick for putting himself forward. Every such contest fought is helping the party rebuild for the future. The seat was closely fought between Conservatives and Labour with the Conservatives gaining.

Grangefield (Stockton-on-Tees) result:

CON: 50.5% (+15.4)

LAB: 43.1% (-5.5)

UKIP: 3.6% (-8.8)

LDEM: 2.8% (-1.1) — Britain Elects (@britainelects) September 1, 2016

Again, the UKIP vote tanked. Labour should be very worried to be losing seats like this.

There were also three by-elections in Dorset, all Tory holds. We’ll update this post with the full results later.

All in all, not a bad night at all.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings