Labour takes Blackpool South - following its resounding by-election win there in May. It's wiped out the Tory majority of 3,690 in 2019 and has its own majority now of almost 7,000.

Just a note - this result is described as a Labour gain rather than a hold, because it's compared to the result at the last election in 2019.

Lee Anderson, who switched from the Conservative Party to Reform UK back in March, wins Reform's first seat of the night in Ashfield.

(As a reminder, our graphics are comparing tonight's result to the 2019 election - hence why it's shown as a Reform gain).

If the exit poll is right, it could be the first of 13 seats won by Nigel Farage’s party tonight.

But bear in mind what our polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said earlier - that how many seats Reform will win is highly uncertain. Our model suggests there are many places where they have some - but a relatively low - chance of winning.

Aleem Maqbool
Reporting from Rochdale

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There's a very different mood outside Rochdale Leisure Centre tonight as compared to four months ago when George Galloway won his seat in a by-election.

Then, more than 200 of his supporters gathered and cheered outside - but not tonight.

Last time around, Labour disowned its candidate Azhar Ali over comments he made about Gaza.

This time Labour Party members at the count seem more relaxed about the outcome and a potential win for their candidate Paul Waugh - a former journalist.

Former Welsh Sec Alun Cairns loses out to Labour's Kanishka Narayan, who becomes Wales' first MP from a minority ethnic background.

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

The 26-point drop in the Conservative vote in Rayleigh and Wickford is easily the biggest fall in Conservative support in a seat ever - and it is the fifth biggest vote drop in British election history.

Mark Francois did hold on to the seat, though.

BBC Newsnight's Nick Watt says a Lib Dem source tells him they're expecting to have "an astonishing night".

The exit poll predicts them to win 61 seats - in 2019 they won 11.

Charlotte Gallagher
Reporting from Finchley

I’m at the Hendon, Chipping Barnet and Finchley and Golders Green counts.

We’re awaiting results in the spectacular setting of the RAF museum in Hendon. All three of the seats were claimed by the Conservatives in 2019 - but tonight could be very different.

Exit polls show that Finchley and Golders Green, Margaret Thatcher's old seat, could be claimed by the Liberal Democrats.

The constituency has the largest Jewish population in the UK, and allegations of antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership cost Labour dearly. It is seen a key and symbolic target for Keir Starmer.

Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

We haven’t had a result yet but the Liberal Democrats are claiming victory in Tunbridge Wells, which last elected a Liberal in 1906.

It’s been represented since 2005 by Tory Greg Clark, who served in the cabinet under David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, although he stood down at the election.

Rachel Reeves wins in Leeds West & Pudsey with a majority of more than 12,000.

She's now highly likely to become Keir Starmer's chancellor - and would be the first woman to hold the role.

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

The Lib Dems have won Harrogate where the 10-point increase in their vote is rather better than the two-point increase we were expecting in the exit poll.

The 22-point drop in Tory support is just what we expected from the exit poll.

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Former education secretary and Conservative peer Nicky Morgan tells BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live: "It's a gutting and deeply painful night to be a Tory tonight."

She adds: "I firmly believe that elections are won from the centre ground and we spent too long not pointing in that direction as a party."