As it happened: General election results across Leicestershire and Rutland

Summary

Independent Shockat Adam says "this is for Gaza" as he wins Leicester South from Labour's Jonathan Ashworth in surprise victory
Shivani Raja wins in Leicester East for the Tories
Labour hold Leicester West and gain Loughborough and North West Leicestershire
Conservatives hold Hinckley and Bosworth, South Leicestershire and Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
The newly drawn-up seats of Melton and Syston, Mid Leicestershire, and Rutland and Stamford are won by the Tories
Live results and reaction from across the UK

Live Reporting

Edited by Alex Smith

What's changed in Leicestershire since 2019?published at 23:28 British Summer Time 4 July
Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter
There have been some big boundary changes around here.
Mid Leicestershire, Melton and Syston and Rutland and Stamford are all new constituencies.
Mid Leicestershire is roughly equivalent to half of old Charnwood, some of old Bosworth and the northern tip of South Leicestershire. It stretches round the west and north of the city of Leicester, from Braunstone to Birstall.
Rutland and Stamford is the result of the Melton and Rutland divorce... and a land-grab across the Lincolnshire border into South Kesteven, while still retaining three wards in Harborough (Leicestershire) – so a three-county constituency!
Could this mean big changes in who wins what? Well, that's up to you.
Lumping together Labour-friendly Braunstone Town and former UKIP-supporting Markfield/Glenfield to the former Conservative-loyal Charnwood voting area will be interesting to watch, but it's really not clear whether it could change the whole political colour of the area.
What's going on in Leicester?published at 22:49 British Summer Time 4 July
Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter
After pretty stable Labour control of Leicester's three parliamentary seats in recent general elections, things now look less predictable.
Leicester East's voters have faced a huge 10-name ballot paper containing two former MPs attempting to regain the seat.
Claudia Webbe, the last MP, and Keith Vaz are both back. Both had been Labour. Both are now outside that party: Mr Vaz now the big name in the new local One Leicester party, and Ms Webbe standing as an independent.
But don't take your eye off Leicester South where, with a small boundary tweak, Aylestone has been shifted to Leicester West while gaining parts of Evington. Labour MP Jon Ashworth wants to keep the seat but he's been seen on social media being hounded away from one street he was canvassing by local Muslim voters upset by an abstention on a Gaza ceasefire motion in Parliament (even though Labour did eventually support one).
Then there's Leicester West, which has had the smallest Labour majorities in the city over the past three elections, and it's now looking even more precarious for Labour. One Leicester is standing here too, with Reform UK and a Green candidate who put in a strong performance in the last real electoral test in the area, the PCC election.
Lots of uncertainties – lots to watch.
The results we are expectingpublished at 22:12 British Summer Time 4 July
Alex Smith
BBC News Online
Over the course of the night, we will be updating you on the election results from the following constituencies (in alphabetical order):
Welcome to our election coveragepublished at 20:00 British Summer Time 4 July
Voting has been taking place throughout the day across the UK in the 2024 general election. Join us after 22:00 BST for coverage of all the results and reaction across Leicestershire and Rutland.
BBC Leicester 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.
You can find out more about how to follow the election on the BBC here.