Live: Results of the 2022 local elections in east London

Follow the latest live updates from the east London counts as the results come in.

• Polls opened on Thursday, May 5 at 7am and closed 10pm
• Counts in Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham and Havering kicked off in the evening of May 5, with the winners set to be announced in the early hours of May 6. Newham and Tower Hamlets are starting in the day on Friday, with the results coming after that. 

Wards in Havering

Beam Park, Cranham, Elm Park, Emerson Park, Gooshays, Hacton, Harold Wood, Havering-Atte-Bower, Heaton, Hylands and Harrow Lodge, Marshalls and Rise Park, Mawneys, Rainham and Wennington, Rush Green and Crowlands, South Hornchurch, Squirrels Heath, St Alban's, St Andrew's, St Edward's, Upminster 

See a full list of all the candidates standing in every ward here.