Georgia Roberts
Reporting from Motherwell

The former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has rocked up to the North Lanarkshire count in a very good mood.

He tells me the mood in Scottish Labour is the best he’s ever felt.

Four seats are being counted here in Motherwell, and Leonard says a good result for Labour here will be taking two of the four seats up for grabs from the SNP. A great result will be all four, he adds.

On the SNP’s fortunes this evening, he says it’s clear their vote has stayed at home this time round.

"The SNP have been knocked off their pedestal" in the eyes of voters, he tells me, referring to their recent woes over the past 12 months - for example the police investigation of the SNP’s finances.

Jeremy Vine is at BBC Wales HQ with his 'swingometer', taking us through some of the key exit poll predictions.

Here they both are in action:

Mark Ferguson wins with a healthy lead over Reform in second and Lib Dems in third.

Sam Hancock
Live page editor

If you're reading this, I'm guessing - like those of us here in the BBC's London newsroom - you're in election night for the long haul.

It's been go go go since that exit poll at 10pm which predicted a huge Labour victory. Various senior Tories have since accepted defeat - and some have even started turning on the prime minister.

So far we've had just six results, with Labour winning all of them - including Swindon South, which means former justice secretary Robert Buckland is out of a seat.

Before long, declarations will start coming through at a much quicker pace - remember, there are 650 in total to get through - with most coming overnight.

We'll continue to bring you every single one right here but, in the meantime, here's a look at when they're all due - but remember, these are just estimated timings.

Emma Simpson
Reporting from Chingford and Woodford Green

The BBC exit poll earlier suggested Iain Duncan Smith has a 99% chance of losing his seat - but we’re hearing that it’s a much tighter race thanks to a big potential split in the Labour vote.

The original Labour candidate, Faiza Shaheen, was deselected eight days into the campaign and is standing as an independent.

The feeling here is that it looks increasingly like a three-way split.

There are a few tense faces here at the Feel Good Leisure Centre in Walthamstow.

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Katie Razzall
Reporting from Bristol Central

I'm in Bristol Central, where Labour shadow culture secretary Thangnam Debbonaire is facing a battle to keep her seat against Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer.

I have to say that only one party in that sports hall is looking confident and happy and that is not the party predicted to win a landslide in this general election.

I've been told the Green's "are storming it" in this seat - and there are some tears in the Labour camp.

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Former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock tells Radio 4 and 5 Live: "Rejoice, rejoice. But even the rejoicing is tinged with concern about what our new government will face. And that's a sobering thought.

"I'm going to give myself an evening of pure ecstasy and nothing gets in the way of that. I'll be singing and dancing.

"But then the singing and dancing will stop and the governing will start."

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

The Greens seem to be performing particularly well in places where the population is relatively young.

Their success in these places may help to explain why Labour’s share of the vote nationally might be less than 40%.

However, the Greens may still only pick up two or three seats - despite recording their highest-ever general election vote share.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper says it looks like her party is on course for a "once-in-a-century result".

She tells the BBC News channel that leader Sir Ed Davey has "lit up this campaign".

Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert

As we reported earlier, Labour held Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, where we were expecting the Conservatives to be down 22 points, Labour up two and Reform up 14.

In reality, the Conservatives are down 16, Labour down 14 and Reform up 11.

The pattern has been disturbed by the 9% vote for the independent candidate here, Yvonne Ridley, who was running on a pro-Gaza platform. This seems to have damaged Labour.

The population in this seat is 15% Muslim - maybe an indication of further Labour difficulties in seats with heavily Muslim seats.

Conservative Robert Buckland, who has just lost his seat, is criticising some of his Tory colleagues, saying he's "fed up of performance-art politics".

"I've watched colleagues in the Conservative Party strike poses, write inflammatory op-eds, and say stupid things they know they have no evidence for, instead of concentrating on doing the job," says the former cabinet minister.

He says he wants the party to get back "to the ethos of doing stuff well and being competent".

"I'm fed up of personal agendas and jockeying for position," he adds - saying that with the party facing "electoral armageddon" it's "going to be like a group of bald men arguing over a comb".

Catherine Byaruhanga
Reporting from Basildon and Billericay

A senior local Conservative representative tells us the final result here is too close to call.

I have seen the party’s representatives huddled around going over their own tallies of the count so far – with strained looks on their faces. Their candidate is the Conservative Party chairman, Richard Holden.

The Conservative party insider expects the party’s biggest competitors to be Reform UK. Labour representatives have also told the BBC the result is too close to call.

The BBC’s exit poll also says it’s pretty tight here.

Helena Wilkinson
Reporting from Islington North, and Islington South and Finsbury

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Jeremy Corbyn has arrived at the sports centre where counting is now under way - he looks relaxed as he walks around the hall.

It’s an unusual election battle here.

Corbyn, once Labour leader, will be trying to gain the seat he represented since 1985 - but as an independent. He’s up against Labour’s Praful Nargund.

Aleem Maqbool
Reporting from Rochdale

Given the national picture, Labour nervousness in about 20 stronghold constituencies is all the more fascinating.

Most of them have large Muslim populations where a protest vote against the way Sir Keir Starmer has dealt with the Gaza crisis could spoil the party for some Labour candidates, including a few big names.

Polls have been tight here in Rochdale, where George Galloway is looking to defend his February by-election win, but also look out for results in various Birmingham, Lancashire and Bradford constituencies, as well as Luton North and South, Slough and Leicester South.

Some independents standing on a Gaza platform are a threat and, of course, so is Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain here in Rochdale.

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

There was a widespread expectation that turnout would fall in this election, and the early results are consistent with that.

To that extent, we may discover we are heading towards one of the lower turnouts of general elections in post-war electoral history.

Dharshini David
Reporting from Godalming and Ash

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A prime location for Hollywood films, a new drama is unfolding in Godalming as exit polls suggest that Jeremy Hunt will be the first chancellor in modern times to lose his seat, unsettling an already nervous Tory camp.

Despite numbers suggesting the economy is turning, the chancellor has gambled on increasing his personal vote, pounding the streets to focus on local issues such as the NHS and sewage – but so too has the Liberal Democrats' Paul Follows, another local lad.

But the biggest cheer here tonight came from the Labour camp, who hope for success in Farnham and Bordon which is also being counted here.

Against convention they’re counting Godalming and Ash first, hoping to declare by 04:00 BST.

The acting returning officer is aiming to keep energy levels up on the count floor by doling out copious amounts of his favourite snack – biltong.

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

As we reported at 00:26 BST, Labour have retained Washington and Gateshead South, where Reform beat the Tories into second place.

We were expecting the Conservatives to lose 28 points, Labour to gain five and Reform gain 17 here.

In practice, the Conservatives are down 21, Labour are indeed up five, and Reform are up 15. Once again, Reform have come second in a heavily pro-Leave Labour seat.

Labour sources pour cold water on predicted Reform gainspublished at 00:45 British Summer Time 5 July

00:45 BST 5 July

Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

Some of the 13 seats forecast for Reform UK would come from Labour.

Labour's dousing cold water on that.

An authoritative party source tells me: "Our data is suggesting Reform will not win many of the seats the exit poll suggests. They will get less than 13 seats."

Let’s see.

Colletta Smith
Reporting from Stoke

Hello from the capital of the 2019 Boris Brexit swing.

I’m in an enormous sports hall here in Stoke, with more than 200 count staff cracking on with the job counting three different constituencies.

The Labour team are striding about, confident of winning two of the three seats here, and think they may well clinch the third in Stoke South which would be an enormous swing in their favour.

Tory Deputy Chairman Jonathan Gullis - a 2019 Conservative poster boy - who rode to victory in Stoke North just four years ago - is worriedly pacing the floor. Labour is convinced he’ll be out of a job within a few hours.

It may not console the candidates but there’s a brilliant cafe open through the night here at the sports centre, so we’ll get through the next few hours with the aid of a bacon butty or two.