The party which polled the third highest number of votes in Kirklees doesn’t have a single representative on the council.

Analysis of the figures of the local election results show that Labour clearly has a mandate to run the council – despite not having enough councillors to give them overall control.

Across the borough UKIP secured the third highest number of votes.

Here’s how the parties did:

Labour: Won 76,207 votes in the 24 seats available on Kirklees Council, gaining two extra seats from the opposition. With 34 councillors, they remain one short of the 35 needed to have overall control.

Conservatives: Remain the second biggest party remains with 18 councillors. The party secured a combined 63,406 votes in the 24 seats.

UKIP: Secured the third highest number of votes with 16 candidates standing for 24 seats. UKIP won 22,791 votes throughout the borough, but none of their candidates were first so they remain unrepresented on Kirklees Council.

Liberal Democrats: Remain the third biggest party on Kirklees Council. They lost one seat and now have 10 councillors. They polled 21,296 votes throughout the district.

Green Party: Remain the fourth biggest party on Kirklees Council. Lost one of their councillors and now have four councillors on Kirklees Council, but their candidates brought in 16,189 votes overall.

Trade Unionists and Socialist Party: Secured 2,126 votes. Again, none of their candidates won enough votes to win a seat.

Independents: Holme Valley North Independent Clr Edgar Holroyd-Doveton held his seat with 3,498 votes. Other independents fared less well – four of them polled a collective 851 votes.

The English Democrats - “Putting England First” came third in Dewsbury South with 858 votes.

As the local elections were on the same day as the General Election the turnout in every ward was higher than if it was just a local election.

In 2014 the local election turnout ranged from 29% to 43%.

This year, five Kirklees Council wards attracted a turnout of over 70% – four of them were won by the Conservatives.

The wards with the top turnout were: Colne Valley (70%); Denby Dale (73%); Holme Valley North (71%); Holme Valley South (73%); and Kirkburton (71%).

Almondbury, Dalton (both Labour) and Newsome (Green) saw the lowest turnout, all on 59%.