Tim Padfield
Assistant editor, BBC Radio Lancashire

There’s been a big increase in postal votes physically handed in in the Lancaster and Morecambe seats.

One theory is this due to people not trusting the Royal Mail after the recent stories about problems with postal votes.

The turnout in Lancaster and Wyre is 57.8%, while in Morecambe and Lunesdale it was 63.1%

The results for Chorley have just come in with Labour keeping a solid majority - so why aren't we describing it as a Labour hold?

It's because it's Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's seat.

The role of the Speaker is politically impartial, so incoming Speakers resign from their political party when they are appointed, but can still undertake work on behalf of their constituents.

The main parties do not usually field candidates against the Speaker at general elections held during their term in office.

Labour’s Chris Webb has retained the Blackpool South seat that he only won from the Tories at a by-election in May.

He massively boosted his majority, with a 20.6% swing that resulted in the Tories not even coming second.

Mr Webb secured 16,916 votes, with Mark Butcher for Reform UK coming second on 10,068.

Conservative candidate Zak Khan got 5,504 votes.

The seat has been redrawn for this election, with wards from Blackpool North added to it.

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.

Counting is under way in Fylde, where our reporter Maria Felix Vaz says it looks like someone has must have arrived fresh from seeing Shania Twain at the Lytham Festival...

Paul Faulkner
Local Democracy Reporting Service

The faces of the various party foot soldiers at the South Ribble count are not betraying their feelings over the exit poll, which suggests Labour will take the seat from the Conservatives.

The usual earnest monitoring of the verification process continues - and no sign yet of either of the candidates from those two parties.

Verification's under way here at the count for the Rossendale & Darwen constituency in Haslingden.

Counting is expected to start at 01:30.

Last time, the seat was won by Jake Berry, the former Conservative Party chairman and levelling-up champion - but this time around BBC projections show it could be a Labour gain.

Ellis Palmer
BBC Lancashire

Verification's under way here at the count for the Rossendale & Darwen constituency here in Haslingden.

Counting is expected to start at 01:30.

Last time, the seat was won by Jake Berry, the former Conservative Party chairman and champion of levelling up - but this time around BBC projections show it could be a Labour gain.

Sir Keir Starmer's Labour have won a big victory - here's a guide to understanding what it all means.

Conservative candidates in eight Lancashire seats must be casting anxious glances at the ballot boxes with a Labour landslide predicted by exit polls.

The most nerve wracking count will be in Burnley where the party won by only 127 votes when it took the seat from Labour in 2019.

Even the Tories' highest majority in the county - for the seat of Fylde, where former MP Mark Menzies won with 19,254 last time around - could change hands.

Helen Bingley, High Sheriff of Lancashire, is certainly dressed for the part!

In a few short hours' time, she will declare the results for the Lancaster & Wyre and Morecambe & Lunesdale constituencies at Lancaster Town Hall.

Labour is forecast to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 131.

You can keep up to date with the national picture here.

Welcome to our general election results coverage for Lancashire.

BBC Radio Lancashire has reporters at the counts and you can follow all the election developments as they happen here on the BBC News website and app.

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