Triumphant Tories celebrated success after retaining control of Wyre Council.
The count,which took place through the night at the Marine Hall in Fleetwood sawthe ruling party retain 39 seats.
But it wasn’t all plain sailing for the blues as Labour clawed back seats –mainly in the Fleetwood wards.
Labour took a second seat from the Independents in Warren Ward.
The Conservatives now hold 39 seats on the borough council retaining its majority while Labour will lead an opposition with 14 members –six more than in 2007.
Leader of the opposition Clive Grunshaw said he was ecstatic to win back seats, describing it as a fantastic result.
He said: “The candidates have been exemplary and I know will make excellent councillors.
“We have worked so hard, not just in Fleetwood but throughout the whole of Wyre, but Rossall is one of the wards we were really working for.
“I can celebrate having three true Labour councillors -it is something we were really hoping for.
“The plans now are to build on this success and increase the voice that Labour have got within Wyre Borough Council.”
Despite Labour’s success, leader of the council Peter Gibson said he was very pleased with the comfortable majority.
He said: “Prior to 2007 Labour had 20 seats, they lost 11 in that election and have now made it back up to 14 –that is no triumph.
“To me this shows us we are doing the right thing, we have retained most of the votes which proves we are getting the message across that under a conservative government Wyre is a success.”
Preesall also retained all three of its Conservative seats.
Coun Paul Moon, who received 1,220 votes, said: “We are very pleased with our success. The council has grown stronger and more efficient and we will continue to play our individual roles in that process.”
Ben Wallace, MP for Wyre and Preston, said despite the most unprecedented cuts in public spending he had not expected a Conservative collapse.
He said: “I thought perhaps Labour would take a few seats at the expense of the Liberal Democrats but I was not worried about the Tory candidates.
“If Labour wants to make advances in Wyre they need to be moving into areas like Thornton and Cleveleys and they show no sign of doing that.”
Turn out for yesterday’s election was 44.8 per cent up by almost five per cent on the 2007 poll which saw a 39.94 per cent turn out.