Labour has had major success in the City Council elections, maintaining their strong majority and gaining three seats.
The Conservatives may have come out on top in the general election nationally but Labour won 52 out of 55 Nottingham City Council seats.
Their haul is up on the 49 they held going in to the poll.
It was a tough result for the Independents, who lost all their three seats to Labour in Clifton North, Clifton South and Mapperley.
The Conservatives managed to retain their three seats in Wollaton West and Clifton North.
Video: City Council Leader Jon Collins talks about what to expect from the council.
Mansfield Mayor
Meanwhile Independent Kate Allsop has been elected Mayor of Mansfield, beating Labour’s Martin Lee.
Ms Allsop was victorious with 22,600 votes, compared to Mr Lee with 19,720.
The count at the John Fretwell Centre took more than four hours to complete as no candidate secured 50 per cent of the first preference vote, meaning second preference votes had to be counted to see who would be elected.
After the first choice votes were counted there was just 42 votes separating the two with Kate Allsop on 17,604 and Martin Lee on 17,562.
But Ms Allsop beat the opposition by more than 3000 votes once the second choice votes were counted.
The turnout for the Mayoral election was 57.93% with 46,402 voting out of 80,102 registered, an increase from 2011 when the turnout was 37.4%.
