[RhysJR]

The viewing figures for overnight election coverage when it’s only local elections in some area, many areas aren’t voting, and the biggest votes are being counted later, must be incredibly small, and not worth wasting the A team on.

I’m surprised there is no coverage scheduled for Saturday considering the biggest mayoral elections are declaring then

With everyone looking at cost savings, whether that are the councils or the broadcasters, I wonder if there will ever be a time when overnight counts become a thing of the past? Maybe kept just for general elections before even being discontinued with those as well.

I thought the last Welsh Parliament election worked well for a TV viewer's perspective with the counting starting in the morning. Results started coming in around 1/2pm and were at their busiest in the 5pm-6pm hour. So far better for the public to view the democratic process being delivered.

Not sure if there might be security implications or concerns with delaying the start of the count of a general election. There would be millions of ballots needed to be stored securely across the country. Other elections are less of an event and will have less ballots, so not counting overnight will be more favourable.