Summary

  1. Labour hold Sloughpublished at 03:29 British Summer Time 5 July 2024
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    Labour's Tan Dhesi has been re-elected as the MP for Slough.

    He has held the seat since 2017.

  2. Labour gain in Bracknellpublished at 03:17 British Summer Time 5 July 2024
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    Labour's Peter Swallow has won the seat, beating the Conservatives' James Sunderland, who won the seat in 2019.

    University lecturer Dr Swallow beat the Tories' James Sunderland by just under 800 votes.

    But Reform won 7,445 votes, with Mr Sunderland winning 13,999.

    Dr Swallow won 14,783 votes for Labour.

    Peter Swallow is wearing a dark suit with a red tie in front of Bracknell Forest Council signs
  3. Labour gains Bracknell from the Conservativespublished at 03:15 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Graphic showing Labour gains Bracknell from the Conservatives. The winning candidate was Peter Swallow.
  4. Turnout down in Sloughpublished at 02:47 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    The BBC's Neranjana Elapatha at the Slough count says turnout in the constituency was 53.4% on Thursday.

    That's lower than at 2019's general election, when it was 59%.

  5. 'There's been a real desire for change'published at 02:43 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Matt Rodda, who won Reading Central with a majority of 12,600 over the Conservatives' Raj Singh, said he was still trying to take in his victory.

    "It's a huge win for us in Reading. I'm so grateful to local residents for putting their trust in me and it's a great tribute to our Labour team: the council, other supporters, who have been fantastic throughout the campaign but I'm trying to take it all in," he said.

    "There's been a real desire for change and people have expressed their views. That's the fundamental reason: the public wants to see a change of government."

    Matt Rodda is wearing a grey suit jacket and a blue shirt with a red tieImage source, UK Parliament
  6. Labour wins Reading Centralpublished at 02:18 British Summer Time 5 July 2024
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    Matt Rodda has won Reading Central - a new seat at this election - for Labour.

    He was previously the MP for Reading East from 2017 until earlier this year, when it was abolished in boundary changes.

  7. Bracknell count a 'little nervy'published at 02:02 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Ed Farrar in Bracknell says the count is a "little nervy".

    "There's plenty of muttering from both the Conservatives who have held this seat since it’s inception and the Labour team heavily favoured in the polls," he said. "I asked Labour candidate Peter Swallow how he was feeling. ‘We’ll see’ was his rather polite way of avoiding me."

  8. Turnout down in Newburypublished at 01:59 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    The BBC's Alex Meakin at the Newbury count reports that turnout - at 68.3% - is down in that constituency.

    It was 71.9% within the constituency's previous boundaries back in 2019.

  9. Lib Dems encouraged by exit pollpublished at 01:42 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Clive Jones, the Lib Dems' candidate for Wokingham, said he was "very pleased" when the exit poll published at 22:00 showed that he is expected to take the seat from the Conservatives.

    "We have run an extremely good campaign, a positive campaign. We've been working very hard for nearly two and a half years since I was selected as the candidate,” he said.

    Mr Jones was previously the leader of Wokingham Borough Council.

    He added: "We've spoken to loads and loads of residents and knocked on loads and loads of doors and I've personally spoken to over 10,000 Wokingham residents. I was quite shocked when I was told that two or three weeks ago.

    "I would say I've been quite excited for some time thinking that we were doing the right things. We were knocking on lots of doors, we were talking to people about issues that were really concerning them: the state of the NHS, sewage in our rivers, the cost of living crisis."

    Clive Jones - wearing a yellow tie - and supporters at the count in Wokingham
  10. Lib Dems increasingly hopeful in Wokinghampublished at 01:08 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Patrick O'Hagan
    Political reporter, Berkshire

    No-one wants to say for sure but in the last few minutes I've had conversations with several Liberal Democrat councillors here in Wokingham who say they're convinced they're going to take the parliamentary seat from the Conservatives.

    Not only that, they also think that by the time this count is over people -including them- will be surprised by just how wide the margin of victory will be. Their candidate Clive Jones is due to arrive here shortly.

    John Redwood was the Conservative MP for Wokingham from 1987 until earlier this year.

  11. Turnout down in Bracknellpublished at 00:53 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Our reporter at the Bracknell count, Ed Farrar, says that it has been announced that turnout was 61.4% on Thursday.

    That's down from 68.6% at the last general election five years ago.

    Tory MP James Sunderland is looking to keep the seat he's held since 2019.

    Three women counting votes at the Bracknell count
  12. Labour keeping quiet - for nowpublished at 00:36 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Patrick O'Hagan
    Political reporter, Berkshire

    Labour agents and campaigners who we've spoken to at the Wokingham and Earley and Woodley counts say they have been told not to do any interviews with the media until their counts have finished and the results are in.

    Colleagues just over the border in Witney, Oxfordshire have been told the same thing.

  13. Theresa May awarded peeragepublished at 00:32 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    Former prime minister Theresa May, who stood down as Maidenhead's MP before the general election, will sit in the House of Lords.

    The nominations were announced less than an hour before polls closed in the general election on Thursday.

    Sir Alok Sharma, who was the Conservative MP for Reading West from 2010 until he stood down earlier this year, is also given a peerage.

    He was the president of the climate COP26 conference in November 2021.

    In what could be one of his final acts as prime minister, Rishi Sunak has also given honours to five of his Conservative colleagues.

    Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister and close ally of Mr Sunak, will be knighted, as will the former Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith, the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack.

    Theresa May in a blue jacket and wearing sunglasses in a green chairImage source, Getty Images
    Image caption,

    Mrs May was pictured on Wednesday sitting in the Royal Box at Wimbledon

  14. Reporters await results and look around venuespublished at 00:01 British Summer Time 5 July 2024

    BBC Berkshire's political reporter Patrick O’Hagan is at the Loddon Valley Leisure Centre where he’s covering the Wokingham and Earley and Woodley counts for us.

    Clearly we forget to tell him to take his gym gear with him.

    Patrick O'Hagan in a gym with gym equipment behind him
  15. Welcome to our election coveragepublished at 20:00

    Voting has been taking place throughout the day across the UK in the 2024 general election.

    Join us after midnight BST for coverage of all the results and reaction across Berkshire.

    BBC South will have reporters at the counts and you can follow all the election developments as they happen here on the BBC News website and app.