Labour has eradicated the Green party’s presence on Hertfordshire County Council by taking its single seat in Watford.

There was no change in the town’s other five wards, with the Liberal Democrats holding its four seats despite the party’s overall vote share dropping from 40 percent to 36.

Labour held its Vicarage Holywell seat and took Callowland Leggatts from the Green party, increasing its vote share in the town by 5.5 percent.

UKIP enjoyed a surge of support with a 13.7 per cent increase in "other" party votes, shared between five UKIP candidates and a Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in Central Oxhey.

Callowland Leggatts saw the biggest swing in votes, with the Labour surging from fourth place in 2009 to firts on a 27.3 per cent vote share increase.

Labour candidate, Anne Joynes, ousted the sitting Green councillor Ian Brandon.

Mike Jackson, Labour election agent, said: "Callowland Leggatts was a magnificent result, with a 12.5 per cent swing to Labour. We had good results in West Watford as well."

Jackie Connell, labour councillor, said she was out from 7.30am until 7pm knocking on doors in support of her party’s candidate Anne Joynes.

She described her as "enthusiastic with loads of energy".

The Conservatives took a battering in Callowland Leggatts, with a 16 per cent swing away from the 25 per cent vote share they enjoyed in 2009.

Across the borough, the Conservatives didn’t win a seat, and lost 9.6 per cent of the vote.

This is despite a strong showing in Nascot Park, where Binita Mehta took second place to the Liberal Democrat incumbent Mark Watkin by 530 votes.

Watford Observer: Mark Watkin (right) retained Nascot Park for the Lib Dems. Pictured with elected mayor Dorothy Thornhill and Watford Borough councillor George Derbyshire.

The Conservative and Lib Dem candidates dominated the ward, accounting for about three quarters of the 4,634 votes cast.

The UKIP candidate and independent Malcolm Meerabux both gained 9.6 per cent of the vote, and the Green party lost roughly half its votes from 2009 with 143.

Mr Meerabux stood as a Conservative candidate in 2009 where he attracted about 30 per cent more votes than this year, and 11.1 per cent more than Ms Mehta today.

UKIP candidate Nick Lincoln took nearly 25 per cent of the vote in Meriden Tudor, putting him above the Tory candidate, whose vote share plummeted by 13.1 per cent compared to 2009.

However his 709 votes were not enough to trouble Lib Dem incumbent, Kareen Hastrick, who held her seat, despite a negative swing of five per cent.

Mr Lincoln said: "Today was really good. Obviously the end game is to win a seat but we’re competing against a very well organised Lib Dem machine.

"We’re chuffed about coming second and third across the division, we’ve never had those figures before."

Incumbent Nigel Bell held on to his Vicarage Holywell seat with the largest majority of the day, with 1,262 more votes than the Lib Dem, UKIP, Conservative or Green candidates.

Watford Observer: Labour councillor Nigel Bell, right, kept his Vicarage Hoywell seat.

He now enjoys a popular mandate of 59.1 per cent, 0.9 per cent more than in 2009.

The Lib Dems also held onto seats in Central Oxhey and Woodside Stanborough, with Derek Scudder and Stephen Giles-Medhurst returning to the county council.

Mr Giles-Medhurst, who is also the county Lib Dem leader, said: "This is a very good result given the national trend against the coalition partners.

"We have 16 county seats and we are still the official opposition, having gained a seat off the Conservatives in Hatfield South. We held all our divisions easily."

The electorate has grown by 4253 since 2009, and the turnout has dropped by 8.4 per cent to 28.1 percent, across the 42 polling stations in Watford.

Only 64 ballots were spoiled this year, in comparison to 192 in 2009.