Emma Grimshaw
BBC News, West of England

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his bid to become an MP for the newly-formed North East Somerset and Hanham seat while standing next to a candidate who was wearing a baked beans balaclava.

Phin “Barmy Brunch” Adams, who is a teacher and radio presenter, hoped to introduce a “statutory brunch hour”.

He previously said: “Yes, it’s ambitious, it’s bold, it’s an hour long. If we can just pause and just breathe, it's one of the things that I think is key to upholding the good mental health that we all really desire.”

Mr Adams has lived in Bath for 24 years and used to have a show called “Phin’s Barmy Brunch” on Somerset Valley FM, from which the character takes its name.

Ruth Bradley
Politics reporter, BBC Somerset

David Fothergill, Conservative opposition leader on Somerset Council and former Somerset County Council leader, has been speaking to BBC Radio Somerset.

"I did think I might be the last surviving senior Conservative in the county - thank goodness Ashley Fox got elected in Bridgwater," he said.

"I saw a bingo game of excuses we would use... but this is going to take a long time to analyse what went wrong," he added.

"A lot of votes have gone to Reform...a lot of those people within Reform are naturally right of centre, conservative voters.

"What we have to do is understand how the Conservative Party becomes a broad church again.

"We've lost the abiilty to talk to the extremes of our party and become too focused on the centre, but we've now got five years to regroup," Mr Fothergill added.

He's been a big supporter of Rishi Sunak in the past but concedes it is now time for him to go - though won't be drawn on who he'd like to see as the next party leader.

Weston-super-Mare's first ever Labour MP is congratulated by his family.

Just to recap on what happened in North East Somerset & Hanham.

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg lost to Labour's Dan Norris and then quoted Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in true Sir Jacob fashion.

Find out more by reading our full story here.

Cheryl Dennis
BBC News, West of England

We’re likely to be turfed out soon because new MPs, old MPs, MP wannabes, count staff, and council staff who’ve run this count have all left Hutton Moor Leisure Centre.

Where ballot papers were shuffling a few hours ago, just the sound of lonely tables and ballot boxes being stacked remains.

Here is view from our media station in the corner.

Jacob Rees-Mogg ended his speech with a quote from the fictional character Caractacus Potts.

Sir Jacob congratulated Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on "what seems to be a historic victory".

Former MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg ended his speech with a rather unusual quote: "From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success."

The quote came from Caractacus Potts, one of the characters from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Sir Jacob lost his bid to become the MP for the newly-formed North East Somerset and Hanham seat. The area's new MP is Dan Norris.

Cheryl Dennis
BBC News, West of England

The area has only ever voted Conservative but tonight Sadik Al-Hassan is North Somerset's first ever Labour MP.

A pharmacist from Patchway, he says it’s an “absolute honour to be selected” and he “cannot wait” to get to work.

Liam Fox looked emotional as his 32 year reign came to an end and said "that's how it goes in politics".

Ruth Bradley
Politics reporter, BBC Somerset

All of the seven Somerset constituencies I was covering have now declared, and a markedly different political picture has emerged here.

In 2019 Somerset was a sea of blue with Conservative MPs returned in all the seats, the same as in 2015.

But nowhere can the Lib Dem comeback be felt more starkly than Somerset, which is now a field of shimmering yellow, with a spot of blue in Bridgwater.

The Lib Dems have won Frome and East Somerset, Taunton and Wellington, Glastonbury and Somerton, Wells and Mendip Hills, Yeovil and the new Tiverton and Minehead constituency.

Newly-elected Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, Adam Dance, said he was "ecstatic" to restore the "heartland of the Liberal Democrats", citing his mentor the late Paddy Ashdown, Yeovil MP for 18 years and former party leader.

Mr Dance said Lord Ashdown gave him the parliamentary nomination papers about a year before he died.

The Liberal Democrat vote has been strong, and the Conservative vote weak, but Reform UK have also played their part, as in other parts of the country, coming third in every seat here, beating Labour sometimes by thousands of votes.

Liam Fox, who has held several cabinet roles, has narrowly lost North Somerset to Labour.

Labour's Sadik Adam Al-Hassan won 19,138 votes to Fox's 18,499.

The former North East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has spoken to the BBC after he lost his bid to become the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham.

He said the fate of elected MPs depended on the popularity of their party leaders, and that the votes he received in his previous election was down to the popularity of former leader, Boris Johnson.

He still plans to be a prominent figure in the local community, saying he will open the Clutton Flower Show in August.

Sadik Al-Hassan wins for Labour with a majority of just 639.

Anna Sabine wins with an almost 5,000 majority.

Mike Gilmore
BBC News, West of England

While accepting his defeat at the hands of Labour’s Dan Aldridge, John Penrose expressed concern at the low turnout, not just in Weston-super-Mare but across the country.

Asserting that it was bad for democracy that people had lost faith in politics.

He then left the building, refusing to give any interviews.

He tells the BBC he can't "blame anybody other than myself" and that it's been "a very bad night for the Conservatives" - but the "small silver lining is that we will at least be the official opposition, which some of the MRP polls were saying wouldn’t be".

"I think that Rishi Sunak has done his best," Jacob Rees-Mogg adds.

Ruth Bradley
Politics reporter, BBC Somerset

"The national result is a terrible result for the Conservative party," says new Bridgwater Tory MP Ashley Fox.

"From a local point of view, it was like 'noises off stage left'.

"We were trying to deliver a message in the constituency and [then] there would be trouble from Westminster, so it's a relief that national campaign is now over."

The former MEP was elected with a slim majority of 1,349 over Labour in the new constituency.

Labour's Dan Norris has beaten Jacob Rees-Mogg to the new North East Somerset & Hanham seat.

Lib Dem candidate Gideon Amos has won the seat in Taunton.