Marie Lennon
BBC News, West of England

John Glen held on to his seat here. This is one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, but even here there was a feeling over the last few weeks that even Salisbury could change its history.

But as the ballot papers starting to pile up, it became clear Salisbury wasn’t going to provide the political earthquake the polls threatened.

John Glen said he was ‘absolutely thrilled’ - and looked elated and relieved to be amongst the shaking hands of happy Tory campaigners.

He also said ‘It’s the toughest campaign I’ve fought’.

It was. His nearly 20,000 majority in 2019 was whittled down to just under 4,000. A tough message to take.

He’s a close colleague of Rishi Sunak, and has always been a supporter. On the fate of his party, he blamed party-gate and the failings of the Liz Truss era in eroding trust.

Interestingly, he also blamed being in an era where people expect politicians to solve big problems quickly, without understanding the reality of governing through crises like Covid.

Danny Kruger retains his seat.

John Glen holds on in Salisbury.

Sarah GIbson, candidate for the Liberal Democrats, has won the seat in Chippenham with 22,552 votes.

The Liberal Democrats have won Melksham & Devizes off the Conservatives.

The seat was held by the Conservatives' Michelle Donelan who was also a Secretary of State.

Andrew Hawes
BBC News, Wiltshire

The latest stage of the process is the candidates gathering to agree with the officials on what does and doesn't count as a spoiled ballot paper.

As for when the declaration will finally take place, it feels time for a memorable political quote: "A new dawn has broken, has it not."

It might be that dawn breaks before we discover our winner.

The Conservatives' Andrew Murrison has retained the South West Wiltshire seat.

Other recent Lib Dem gains from the Conservatives include:

• South Devon
• Winchester

Andrew Hawes
BBC News, Wiltshire

East Wiltshire's Liberal Democrat hopeful David Kinnaird got to know this new constituency with a cycling tour of its wards.

He said: "I think we probably met 500 people, it was genuinely an amazing experience. Some bits of the constituency didn't realise they were in it.

"As we got down to the Woodford Valley a lot of people thought they were going to be voting in Salisbury.

"Many people were quite upset they felt their natural affinity to Salisbury had been taken away from them."

He also said the battle between Labour and the Lib Dems to identify themselves as the primary challenger to the Conservatives had been vital: "It's very difficult in a new constituency to try to work out exactly where that lies.

"That second place, does I think, have great sway in all of the tactical voting algorithms. There's no doubt that Labour were boosted by most tactical voting websites calling this for Labour."

"I found it very hard to call and most voters found it hard to call as well. All I could do was position myself and the Lib Dem policy platform and let the voters decide."

Marie Lennon
BBC News, West of England

The wearer is Al Bayliss, agent for Victoria Charleston, the Lib Dem candidate here in Salisbury.

How are they feeling?

Tired, mainly. Positive about how their party are doing across the country, but feeling that here, it hasn’t been enough this time.

We’re being told we’re a way off results yet.

Kelly Morgan
BBC News, Wiltshire

After a quick visit to the parties' chill out room I can declare that the Lib Dems have the fullest and most enticing table of snacks.

As candidates and supporters gather around a telly to soak up the national coverage you can definitely feel the atmosphere rise and fall from table to table.

Marie Lennon
BBC News, West of England

Conservative John Glen, who has been MP here since 2010, has arrived at Five Rivers. A reminder, in 2019 he had a majority of nearly 20,000, in a constituency that has voted Tory for 101 years. As his party lose seats across the West, will he retain his?

Andrew Hawes
BBC News, Wiltshire

Reform's performance is one of the talking points of election night, especially after Nigel Farage's election in Clacton.

The East Wiltshire candidate for Reform Stephen Talbot, feels their ideas of "making work pay" and a "pro-agricultural and pro-forces" messages struck a chord in his campaign.

He says: "Even with a handful of MPs, we can start asking questions that haven't been asked before."

Sophie Parker
BBC News, Wiltshire

Wiltshire saw a large number of independent candidates standing, with two in South West Wiltshire.

Thomas Culshaw and James Ward have been at the count all night and explained to me why they decided to stand with no backing from a political party.

They’re both glad they’ve done it - Mr Culshaw said none of the other candidates represented him, he wanted to do it so people had “the opportunity to vote for what I believe in.”

Mr Ward said people were supportive of him standing: “They said well done for putting your head above the parapet.”

They might not have the same ideas, but both agree they stood as candidates because they wanted to make a difference.

Carl Humphreys
BBC News West

From our vantage point in the gallery watching the count in full swing, with papers piled, checked then cross checked prior to being carefully clipped and placed in the trays. One or two spoilt or unreadable papers checked by the table lead.

Occasionally calls go out for mini count adjudication, and party supporters momentarily move from their posts to review proceedings at the top table, before preceding back to their previous positions.

The surprising thing with an election count is, despite the fact we have been here for almost 6 hours, time just seems to rush past, the active counters working away showing as little lethargy as us in the media box.

With at least 45 minutes until an expected result, it’s all go here.

Former Swindon North MP Justin Tomlinson has told the BBC that his party "deserved the result."

"Colleague after colleague is on the Whatsapp group saying 'I've gone as well', and I couldn't defy that gravity...we had 14 years and collectively we made too many mistakes," he said.

Dan O'Brien
Political reporter, BBC Wiltshire

Where Swindon votes the country so often follows - Swindon has tonight swapped the two Conservative MPs its had since 2010 for Labour.

Heidi Alexander’s team in South won comfortably with 48% of the vote, to the Tories’ 27%.

It was closer in North, Labour only 4,000 votes ahead, but given the previous majority it is a very large shift.

Both Conservatives Justin Tomlinson and Sir Robert Buckland sounded genuinely emotional in their departures, the personal disappointment clear - but both in different ways took aim at their party’s divisions and lack of inspiration.

Andrew Hawes
BBC News, Wiltshire

We have the East Wiltshire turnout figure, which is 63.9%.

Although this is a new seat, when you tot up the equivalent figures for the last election that's a fall of almost exactly 5%.

Now the count begins in earnest.

Marie Lennon
BBC News, West of England

Turnout has held up quite well here compared to other parts of the country.

In Salisbury 50,357 people voted, a turnout of 70.12%, slightly down on 2019.

Marie Lennon
BBC News, West of England

We're around 90 minutes away from the results here.

How are the candidates holding up?

"Hot and tired and fascinated by this process."

Barney Norris is the Green Party candidate for Salisbury. It's his first time standing for a political party, and he says he's found the whole experience really emotional.

He said: "Everyone is going through something that's hard.

"And I find that moving and emotional to listen to".