Greens celebrate 'incredible night' in Oxford at local elections
The party gained its highest number of seats as the votes were counted
The Green Party has celebrated what it's called an “absolutely incredible night” - culminating in its highest-ever number of seats on Oxford City Council.
Half of the council's seats - one in each of its 24 wards - were up for election at yesterday's local polls.
Now, the council makeup is as follows: Labour with 20 seats, Green 13 seats, and Liberal Democrats nine seats.
But there is no overall majority at the local authority, which was previously run by a Labour minority administration.
Independent Cllr Sajjad Malik, part of the Real Independents group, held his seat, meaning the group retains its two seats.
Independent Oxford Alliance did not gain any new seats, but does hold four on the council.
Oxford Independent Group now has zero seats, as both councillors who were members of the group did not stand for re-election this year.
The Conservatives and Reform have no seats, and gained no seats at this election.
Labour is still the biggest party on the council, despite an overall loss of one seat.
Party groups and their leaders are now in talks to determine who will run the council.