Voting has closed - what happens now? Now that the votes have closed, counting will begin in 46 of the 136 local authorities in England, and the results will be declared overnight. Counting for the Senedd and Holyrood elections will begin tomorrow along with the other local authorities. Here is what happens now: 1am, Friday Most of the local authorities counting overnight have only a third or half of their seats up for grabs, which means those councils where a party currently has a large majority – such as Broxbourne (Conservative) and Halton (Labour), both of which are due to declare around this time – are unlikely to see a change in overall control. But councils where a party is defending only a slim majority, for example Harlow (Conservative) and Redditch (Labour), which are also due to finish counting at this time, may slip into no overall control if other parties make gains.…