Helen Godwin has held the West of England Combined Authority mayor role for Labour but it was a close race with Reform UK.

Britain’s two main parties suffered significant losses in municipal and mayoral votes as Reform U.K., a right-wing populist party, surged ahead.

Voters in many areas of England are going to the polls in local elections. The polls are a test of feeling about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour government, 10 months after it was elected in a landslide.