Labour's Steve Race wins Exeter with 45.3% share of votespublished at 05:15 British Summer Time 5 July
Earlier Labour’s Steve Race was declared as the winner in the Exeter seat, with 18,225 votes - a share of 45.3%.
He said: “I think people across the country have voted for change today. Now it leaves the Labour Party with the big task of trying to grow our economy and start to rebuild our services, a task that I believe the Labour Party will be up to.”
Tessa Tucker, from the Conservatives said: “It has clearly been a difficult evening but I’m really proud of the campaign we’ve put forward here in Exeter.
“I think there’ll be certainly a moment of reflection tomorrow and we go from there, we rebuild and start again.”