How the winner-take-all voting system turned on Labor and the Tories

Moreover, those who voted for Reform and the Green Party now find that voting for their party actually wins them seats. With only a handful of results yet to be announced, the Reform and Green Party won 2,063 council seats, 200 more than the Conservatives and Labour’s total of 1,864. Meanwhile, Britain’s traditional third party, the Liberal Democrats, also won 842 local council seats.