Therese Coffey loses Suffolk Coastal as Labour wins in Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

Summary

Election coverage from across Suffolk
All the county's results are now in
The Greens' co-leader Adrian Ramsay wins the new seat of Waveney Valley
Former deputy prime minister Therese Coffey loses her Suffolk Coastal seat to Labour's Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Jess Asato takes the new seat of Lowestoft for Labour
Peter Prinsley wins Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket for Labour
Jack Abbott takes Ipswich back from the Tories for Labour
Nick Timothy wins West Suffolk for the Conservatives but sees their majority fall to just 3,247
Patrick Spencer wins Central Suffolk and North Ipswich for the Tories with a majority of 15,144
Conservative James Cartlidge retains South Suffolk with a reduced majority

Live Reporting

By Laura Devlin

'Give them a wave'published at 23:54 British Summer Time 4 July
Johnnie Wright
BBC Suffolk
At the count in South Coastal, where former Conservative Environment Minister Therese Coffey is seeking re-election, the acting returning officer Chris Bally has told counters the rules of the evening.
He has also told them the BBC is live streaming the count and to "give them a wave".
The lighting is yellow in tone — classic of leisure centre… it’s all rather quiet as the counting gets underway!
Ballot boxes wheeled inpublished at 23:21 British Summer Time 4 July
Counting is under way at Newmarket Leisure Centre.
The seat had been held by the former Conservative Health Minister Matt Hancock, who is not standing for the party this time round.
Image source, Matt Marvel/BBC
Image caption,
In West Suffolk ballot boxes are being transported on shopping trolleys
What does the exit poll mean for Suffolk?published at 23:16 British Summer Time 4 July
Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk political reporter
This is of course only a poll, it's not the result, but it does sound good for Labour candidates.
Especially in Ipswich and Lowestoft - two seats that the party has been targeting.
Despite the overall poor numbers in the poll for the Tories across the country, some from the party in Suffolk may take some hope from it, it could have been worse.
The Green Party's leader Adrian Ramsey has been putting lots of effort and resource into the new Waveney Valley constituency where he is standing.
However, the exit poll predicts the party to win two seats across the UK, which could mean they miss out here.
Landslide for Labour, says exit pollpublished at 22:49 British Summer Time 4 July
An exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky suggests there will be a landslide for Labour.
Welcome to our live election coveragepublished at 20:00 British Summer Time 4 July
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