Before we close the Election Live Page for the night, here's a reminder of the main stories of the day:

David Cameron met Conservative back-benchers old and new on the first day of the new Parliament. He told them he wanted to renew a sense of fairness in society - "where those who work hard and do the right thing are able to get on".

The Prime Minister has been re-shuffling and re-appointing his Cabinet. Many senior figures stay in their roles, but there are moves for Sajid Javid, who is the new Business Secretary and John Whittingdale, who beomes Culture Secretary.

Several female MPs are promoted, including Amber Rudd (Energy and Climate Change Secretary), and Anna Soubry and Priti Patel who will attend Cabinet as small business and employment ministers.

David Miliband has been critical of his brother Ed's leadership of the Labour Party, saying voters "did not want what was being offered".

Nigel Farage is to remain as leader of UKIP after his party rejected his resignation and persuaded him to stay on.

The former coalition health minister, Norman Lamb , has confirmed he will stand for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats.

Journalist and president of the YouGov polling organisation Peter Kellner appeared on Newsnight to talk about what went wrong with the election polls.

He's posted a blog, external on the issue and told Newsnight he thought elections without polls would be worse - because politicians could then make claims about public opinion.

Stella Creasy MP told Evan Davis on Newsnight she would not stand for the Labour leadership, but suggested she would consider standing as deputy.

"I'm open to that question. ...I want to hear what people have to say," she said.

The Labour MP for Walthamstow in London said the party's best campaigns had come from the "grassroots" up and she wanted the party to be a "movement" again.

Labour party donor and businessman John Mills has said the party needs to broaden its appeal, while not losing its "traditional role" of helping people who have fallen on hard times.

He told the BBC News Channel there had been an element of Labour being seen as anti-business and that had "cost the party dear".

However, he added:

Labour's election pollster says public polls "showed a much more favourable position for Labour than we were finding in our internal data" both before the campaign and during it.

Newsnight's policy editor Chris Cook has been speaking to James Morris, who worked for Labour from when Ed Miliband was elected leader in 2010 until the election last week.

Mr Morris told him:

You can read Chris Cook's report here.

Image source, European press agency

"This election has set us back decades", writes the former Liberal leader (Lord) David Steel in The Guardian., external

The article is headlined "Six ways Nick Clegg steered the Liberal Democrats to disaster".....

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason was asked whether the move to the post of international development minister was a demotion for Grant Shapps, who was party chairman.

He said:

Image source, Grant Shapps