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The percentage drop of the Tory vote is so far worse than any party since the 1835 General Election.

Breaking News: Nigel Farage is elected as an MP for the first time "This Labour Government is going to be in trouble very quickly. We're going after them", says the Reform leader. It's his eighth attempt - Farage has failed to become an MP on seven occasions before now. He gets 21,225 votes...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has won in Islington North as an Independent. It's the first Independent candidate win since the 2001 General Election.

Not me.

Lee Anderson is elected as the first Reform MP:

Defence Secretary is gone The Government disintegrates. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has been booted out as an MP by the voters of Welwyn. Labour's Andrew Lewin takes the seat with 41% of the vote.

PM-elect Keir Starmer retains Holborn and St Pancras, with 18,884 votes. However, his vote is down 17% from 2019. He's making his victory speech. "Change begins in this community", says the man who will become PM tomorrow. "This is your democracy."

Latest score (seats): Labour: 67 Conservatives: 7 Liberal Democrats: 3 Reform UK: 1

Reform leader Nigel Farage is arriving at the count in Clacton-on-Sea. Is he about to become an MP for the first time? What drama.

Meanwhile Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner - will she be Deputy PM? - makes her victory speech as she remains Ashton-under-Lyne MP with 15,573 votes. Reform's Robert Barrowcliffe finishes second.

The Monster Raving Looney Party candidate in a wacky costume lets out a hilarious "Thank you!" as he wins just over 200 votes in Chessington. The seat is held by Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who is making his victory speech. He got 25,870 votes.

The first Scottish seat has declared: Labour have taken Kilmarnock from the Scottish nationalists SNP. The SNP are predicted to lose 38 seats.

Brexiteer George Galloway and former friend of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Workers' Party of Great Britain, has finished second to his Labour candidate in Rochdale. So that's another seat for Labour.

PM-elect Keir Starmer is all smiles as he arrives to a round of applause at his constituency count - Holborn and St Pancras - in North London. The former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service is clearly delighted with the way things are going.

Yeah. Most people don't give a shit about the Greenies. In this country the only two seats they are set two win will likely be Brighton Pavilion and maybe a Bristol constituency.

Breaking News: Reform win their first ever seat Reform's Lee Anderson, who defected from the Tories, has won Ashfield, with 17,062 votes. The Tories finish fourth. Farage's party have their first seat.

Rachel Reeves set to become first female Chancellor of the Exchequer as 14 years of Tory rule end Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells the BBC that "people are crying out for change" and "have voted for that in huge numbers". She's cautious about the exit poll, but says if the night unfolds...

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay are the two Green leaders. Denyer is the first openly bisexual person to lead a British political party. During the election campaign, a YouGov poll found that 53% of Green Party supporters did not recognise a photo of Denyer.

The exit poll tracker predicts Starmer will win the election around 4:30am.

The first constituency to declare its result that voted Remain in 2016 is also the first that hasn't gone to Labour - the Liberal Democrats have taken it from the Conservatives. Labour only finished fourth. It's interesting that Leave constituencies are voting for Labour and Remain...