The Liberal Democrats have gained the seat of Maidenhead from the Conservatives.

That seat was previously held by former PM Theresa May - who announced she was standing down as an MP at this election.

The Lib Dem's Joshua Reynolds takes the seat, ahead of the Conservative candidate, Tania Mathias, in second.

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As Labour celebrates its wins across the country, the mood in the SNP camp strikes a very different tone.

Mhairi Black, who stood aside in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, was among those to see her former seat fall to the Labour landslide.

Johanna Baxter took that constituency ahead of the SNP’s Jacqueline Cameron.

The SNP’s former deputy Westminster leader described the result as “cataclysmic” and criticised the party for turning voters away by putting the blame on them.

“What was expected to be a difficult night for the SNP now looks set to be cataclysmic!” she writes on X., external

“Blaming voters, or doing anything other than serious self reflection is precisely the kind of attitude that has turned so many away from the SNP," she says.

The Green Party have claimed their third victory of the night, taking North Herefordshire from the Tories.

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has just been speaking to our TV colleagues after becoming the new MP for Waveney Valley in East Anglia.

He says he's "truly humbled" after overturning a sizeable Tory majority in the East Anglian seat.

"We'll be pushing the new government to be bolder," he says, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of being "timid" on environmental issues.

Labour have picked up more seats from the Conservatives - Wellingborough and Rushden, Forest of Dean, Stafford, Selby, Kettering and Aylesbury

And the Lib Dems have picked up two more seats - again from the Tories - in South Cotswolds, and West Dorset.

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

The BBC is predicting that the turnout will be 60% across the UK as a whole.

This will be the second lowest turnout in a UK election since 1885. Only the 59% in 2001 was lower.

We've still got plenty of results coming in, and in the last few minutes the Liberal Democrats have picked up three seats - Epsom and Ewell, Horsham, and Newbury - all from the Conservatives.

Meanwhile Labour has picked up Northampton North, Reading West and Mid Berkshire, and Stoke-on-Trent South - also from the Conservatives.

Labour set to win with 35% share of the votepublished at 06:28 British Summer Time 5 July

06:28 BST 5 July

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

With more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:

Labour - 35% (+2)

Conservatives - 24% (-21)

Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)

Reform - 15% (+13)

Green - 7% (+4)

This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.

Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.

We already know there'll be a record number of women in the new House of Commons.

Some 242 female MPs have been voted in so far – and the counting's not over yet.

That surpasses the previous all-time high of 220, which was set in 2019.

Some more results to bring you now, with three independent candidates winning in these areas:

• North Down in Northern Ireland from the Alliance Party
• Dewsbury and Batley from Labour
• Blackburn from Labour

You can look up who has won in your area in our postcode look-up tool.

Now that Labour's passed the key 326 Westminster seats needed to run the country – and outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat – what can we expect now?

• In a nutshell: The UK will get its first Labour government, after 14 years under Tory rule
• How it happens: There's a formal process. Sunak will offer his resignation to the King, who will invite Starmer form the next government. This meeting normally happens at Buckingham Palace
• No hanging about: The transition in 10 Downing Street is rapid, and it's possible we'll see Starmer enter the hallowed address later today
• What's Starmer promising? Among his pledges, the incoming PM has vowed to raise people's living standards
• Tory consolation: The party with the second highest number of MPs – which is expected to be Sunak's Conservatives – becomes the official opposition in the Commons

We'll bring you through all of those key moments throughout the day here on this page.

A spectacular victory for Labourpublished at 06:16 British Summer Time 5 July

06:16 BST 5 July

Chris Mason
Political editor

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Politics, eh, flipping heck. This is a spectacular victory for Labour.

Spectacular given where they came from – the doldrums; their result in 2019 their worst since 1935.

But, spectacular too by any metric. Well, almost any metric.

Their share of the vote – given their coming dominance of the House of Commons – isn’t spectacular.

Sir Keir Starmer will be prime minister by lunchtime, taking to Downing Street a colossal majority.

Expect his tone, outside No 10 later, to be magnanimous, understated. Perhaps sensible, given winning big can create expectations that might be hard to meet.

Remember that Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves as they soon will be known, and the new government, will confront all of the old problems that caused their predecessors so much trouble – the cost of living, the government’s finances, the tax burden, a dangerous world – and no majority, however big, can erase them.

Within hours, we will soon have our fourth prime minister in under two years. The whirlwind of British politics continues.

This is the final tally of seats in Wales - where Labour have gained nine seats as the party swept to power with a landslide at Westminster.

Plaid Cymru now have four seats, up from two, and the Lib Dems are back on the map with one win in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe.

The Conservatives, meanwhile, lost an astonishing 12 seats and were wiped out.

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

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Labour are heading towards a landslide victory, winning previously safe Tory seats across the country. Their gains are largely on the back of a dramatic decline of 21 points in Conservative support.

In many ways, this looks more like an election the Conservatives have lost than one Labour have won.

According to current forecasts, this will be the worst Conservative result in terms of seat numbers in history. It will also be the highest Lib Dem tally since 1923.

Some of the Tory losses tonight are thus just as spectacular as Labour's “red wall” losses in 2019.

Seats the Conservatives have lost tonight are ones the party has not lost in any post-war British election and include:

• Aldershot - Conservative since 1918
• Altringham - 1924
• Chichester - 1924
• Dorking - 1885
• Tunbridge Wells - 1931

Chris Page
Ireland correspondent

Taoiseach Simon Harris, the Irish prime minister, has sent his “warmest congratulations” to Sir Keir Starmer on Labour’s victory.

Harris said: “I look forward to working together as close neighbours and friends.

“The relationship between Ireland and the UK is deeply consequential for all people across these islands. Keir Starmer and I share a desire for it to go from strength to strength in the years ahead.

“I look forward to early engagement with the incoming Prime Minister, and to a mutually beneficial and productive relationship between us.”

More than a dozen ministers and other senior members Conservatives are among the victims of what's been termed an overnight Tory bloodbath. Let's remind ourselves of some of the biggest names:

• Penny Mordaunt, who served as leader of the House, is out. Speaking at the count for her Portsmouth seat, she said: "Democracy is never wrong"
• Defence Secretary Grant Shapps – who's served in the Commons for nearly 20 years – is another of the heavyweights on his way out. He's opined that "people don't vote for divided parties"
• Prominent Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg is no longer the MP for North East Somerset. He told the BBC he couldn't "blame anybody other than myself"
• Sir Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary, said his party was facing "electoral Armageddon", blaming others in his party for causing rifts and "jockeying for position"
• A short time ago, leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross lost out on the North and Moray East seat to the SNP

The BBC's chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman has heard from a source that former Tory leader Liz Truss could lose her own seat in South West Norfolk. We'll bring you the result as soon as we get it.

James FitzGerald
Live reporter

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Phew... there's been a lot to take in over the last few hours. If you've just woken up, here are the key things to know:

• With Labour now set to govern the UK – having passed the magic number of 326 Westminster seats – prime minister-elect Sir Keir Starmer told supporters: "We did it"
• Speaking shortly before Sir Keir, outgoing PM Rishi Sunak conceded defeat, telling fellow Tories it was a "sobering verdict"
• A host of high-profile Tories have lost their seats – including Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps and Jacob Rees-Mogg – though Jeremy Hunt has narrowly managed to hang on to his
• Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey is eyeing his party's "best result for a century", as the BBC projects dozens of yellow seats in a big uptick since 2019
• There's been a rare headache for Labour in Islington North, where its former leader Jeremy Corbyn has triumphed as an independent
• At the eighth time of asking, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has won a parliamentary seat, telling those who voted for him that his party is "coming for Labour" at the next election

We have plenty more updates and analysis to bring you throughout the morning, so stay with us.

The result in South Antrim means the DUP cannot win as many or more seats than Sinn Féin.

It means Sinn Féin is now the largest Westminster party from Northern Ireland with seven seats.

It is also the biggest party in the Stormont assembly and at council level.

Sinn Féin MPs do not take their seats in the House of Commons due to a long-standing policy of abstentionism.