Karl Mercer
BBC London political editor

The red blanket that had cloaked London's councils is no more. The capital, which on Thursday had 21 of is 32 boroughs run by Labour, looks very different today.

For the first time, the capital got a directly elected Green mayor - Zoë Garbett - winning in the former Labour stronghold of Hackney.

Hours later another one, a former Labour councillor, Liam Shrivastava became Lewisham's Green mayor.

For the first time the Greens have won councils in London, taking Lewisham, Waltham Forest and Hackney from Labour.

The two-party system is "dead and buried", said Green Party leader Zack Polanski as he celebrated in Hackney.

For the first time the capital has a Reform UK council - after winning in Havering, the party's leader Nigel Farage declared: "It's under new management."

More splashes of blue on the map too with the Conservatives taking back control of Westminster which they lost to Labour in 2022. They came close too in Wandsworth becoming the largest party.

And it is not a pretty picture for Labour. While they may not have lost as big a proportion of their seats as they did in the rest of England and Wales, these results in the capital cannot be glossed over.

Read more from Karl here.

Thursday's election results proved to be historic for London, with the maps showing how support for Labour fell dramatically.

In terms of councillors compared to the last local elections in 2022:

• Labour lost 459 seats to be left with 696
• The Conservatives gained five more seats and have 407
• The Greens have 279 seats having won 278 more than 2022
• The Lib Dems have 243 seats having won an extra 63
• Reform UK won their first London seats and have 79
• The Independents were up by 33 and have 42

It means that Labour now have nine councils, the Conservatives have six, the Greens have three, the Lib Dems have three, Reform UK have one and nine are left in no overall control.

The final result to come in for London was in Lewisham where the Green Party won a majority, following their victory in the mayor's election. Previously the Labour Party held every seat on the council.

Greens: 40 (+40)

Labour 14 (-40)

Liam Shrivastava was elected as mayor of Lewisham on Friday. He will appoint a cabinet from among the elected councillors.

You can catch up with everything which happened over the last couple of days here.

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We now have some data on the elections in London.

Of the 1,817 seats up for grabs in the capital, the Greens won 16.3%, the Liberal Democrats 13.4%, Reform UK 4.3% and Aspire 1.8%.

Labour won 38.3%, down from 63.6% in 2022 and its lowest figure since 2006 when it won 36.8%.

The Conservatives won 22.4%, up very slightly from 22.2% in 2022.

The results show how people in the capital voted for a wider range of parties than ever before, with 39.3% won by someone other than Labour or the Conservatives.

This is more than double the equivalent figure at the 2022 local elections (14.1%) and is the highest percentage of seats not won by either Labour or the Tories in the modern history of local government in London, which began when the current system of councils was established in the 1960s.

Records have also been broken for the number of councils where no party won enough seats to have a majority.

More councils in London have been left in no overall control by this set of results than at any local election in modern history.

There are nine councils in the capital where no party ended up with a majority.

Eight of them were previously controlled by Labour – Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark, Wandsworth – while one, Croydon, remains in no overall control.

The previous record for the most London councils left in no overall control after local elections was eight, last set in 2006.

Labour has a majority on just nine of the capital’s 32 borough councils, down from 21 in 2022 and the party’s lowest number since 2006, when it won seven.

The Greens have won control of councils in London for the first time in the party’s history, securing majorities at Hackney, Lewisham and Waltham Forest, while Reform has won its first council in the capital, at Havering.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage as we reflect on how the political map has changed in London after Thursday's elections.

This morning we will have a special live BBC Politics London programme where we will be hearing from many of the parties following the significant drop in votes for Labour and surge in support for the Greens.

We'll then have a Your Voice election special on BBC Radio London where along with more analysis and reaction, we want to hear from you about what the results mean for London.

The first programme starts at 10:00 BST.

You can also catch up on what happened over the last couple of days here.