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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