Just six Conservatives councillors remain on Warwick District Council as they took huge losses across the area.

The Tories went into today's (May 5) count at NAEC Stoneleigh as the biggest party on the council with 16 seats, but have been usurped by the Greens who finished the day with 14 councillors.

In Warwick, all the blue councillors were voted out, with Labour taking most of the seats.

The group had clean sweeps in Aylesford, Saltisford and All Saints and Woodloes.

But Labour Group leader Mini Mangat was not so lucky as she failed to gain election in Myton & Heathcote with all three seats going to the Green Party.

Elsewhere former leader Andrew Day scraped through to retain his seat by just five votes in Bishop's Tachbrook as a host of former cabinet members lost out.

Labour ended the day with 11 seats up from five before today.

No party has overall control at WDC - as was the case before this week's election - and discussions are now underway between the parties to form a majority.

Whitnash Residents Association retained all three of their seats.

The Lib Dems gained one seat to reach 10.

Green leader Ian Davison said: "We are delighted by how we have done, one person missed out by just 17 votes. 

"Negotiations start now and we look forward to talking to other parties to see if we can find common ground."

Asked whether the Liberal Democrats would be the first port of call, Cllr Davison replied: "We have to see how we get on. 

"The Lib Dems and Greens voted against the current budget that has a £3.5 million deficit. Balancing the books and keeping services going, efficient and professional is the first step before we move on to the other things.

"With the cost-of-living crisis, climate emergency and war in Ukraine, reducing heating bills is number one. We don't have huge amounts of money but the council has been unable to use some of the grants, giving them back. That is an appalling waste so we must do a lot more on that.

"There are lots of ways that we can make it easier for people to insulate their homes and reduce costs. Locally, congestion is a huge issue. It will be really tough but working with the county council, finding ways forward on that will be really important. 

"There is a huge amount of house building going on and getting the right services in there will be important, and another challenge is the local plan which we need to find common ground on." 

Liberal Democrat leader Alan Boad said he had been approached by the Greens and Labour and that whatever the make-up of the new cabinet, a united front – between and within parties – would be a must.

"The important thing is to have a policy platform that we can agree to and deliver," he said.

"That is crucial, rather than just drifting from one thing to the next. That is the danger if we don't row in the same direction.

"That could prove difficult with the Green Party because they say they are not whipped and don't always vote together. You cannot run an authority like that, you have to know where you are going." 

On the result, Cllr Boad added: "We are very pleased. We had a strategy, we didn't quite pull it off 100 per cent but we got 80-90 per cent of what we wanted. It was not bad."

Warwick Results in Full:

Warwick Aylesford

• Daniel Browne (Lab) 802 - elected
• Aurel-Gabrial Rosu (Lab) 710 - elected
• Liam Bartlett (Cons) 617
• Llywelyn Colnet (Cons) 557
• Paul Atkins (Green) 200
• Fred Dahlmann (Lib Dem) 171
• Jennifer Boileau (Lib Dem) 144
• Tony O'Brien (Green) 143

Warwick Saltisford

• Katya Dray (Lab) 968 - elected
• Jim Sinnott (Lab) 872 - elected
• John Morley (Cons) 515
• Hugh Herring (Cons) 513
• Eloise Chilvers (Green) 328
• Christine Fell (Lib Dem) 237
• Alan Beddow (Lib Dem) 218

All Saints and Woodloes

• John Sullivan (Lab) 1,272 - elected
• Raj King (Lab) 1,234 - elected
• Paul Wightman (Lab) 1,222 - elected
• Jody Tracey (Cons) 989
• Oliver Jacques (Cons) 979
• Moira-Ann Grainger (Cons) 977
• Tamsin Lewis (Green) 369
• Juliet Nickels (Green) 349
• Monica Boynton (Lib Dem) 256
• Andrew Cooper (Lib Dem) 183

Myton & Heathcote

• Kathleen Gorman (Green) 1,460 - elected
• Dominic Harrison (Green) 1,414 - elected
• Hema Yellapragada (Green) 1,174 - elected
• Gareth Dore (Cons) 867
• Cameron Low (Cons) 841
• Michelle McHugh (Lib Dem) 775
• Mini Mangat (Labour) 743
• John Kelly (Lib Dem) 177
• Deborah Pittarello (Lib Dem) 177
• Neale Murphy (Cons) 147
• Malcolm Sedgley (Reform UK) 73