Reporter Jenny Eells has been talking to, external chairman of the Bradford Conservatives.

He told her he bought his own chair and quipped: "I hope it's not the only seat we win."

Action shot alert: The counters are flicking through the papers in Barnsley, according to BBC Radio Sheffield's Mick Lunney, external.

Labour's Dan Jarvis, now a junior shadow minister, will defend a majority of 11,777 in Barnsley Central, while Michael Dugher is expected to retain his seat in Barnsley East with a similar result last time of a 11,090 majority.

Alasdair Gill
BBC News, Yorkshire

They've finished counting postal votes in York and are about to start verification of ballot papers from polling stations, BBC Radio York reports.

There were long queues in Pudsey, a key Labour target where the Conservatives hold a slim 1,659 majority.

BBC Look North's Joe Inwood reported that one polling station had up to a 55-minute wait.

Leeds City Council sent emergency teams to assist just before polls closed.

Radio Humberside reporter Natalie Glanvill says a black box full of ballots has just been emptied onto a table for the Scunthorpe count.

She says all the boxes are expected by 23.30 BST.

"The returning officer says first indications suggest a high turn out in Scunthorpe and Brigg & Goole," she tweeted. , external

BBC Political Editor Tim Iredale tweets, external: Good turnout reported in Grimsby and Cleethorpes and we are being told to prepare for a long night!

We are expecting our first results from Cleethorpes at about 02:00 - watch this space!

Alasdair Gill
BBC News, Yorkshire

Hull North MP Diana Johnson just about hung on to her seat at the 2010 election, squeezing in ahead of the Lib Dems by 1.93%.

It should be a different story this time around though with the Lib Dems having lost support in the area over the last few years and Mike Ross expected to trail significantly behind his Labour rival.

Alasdair Gill
BBC News, Yorkshire

Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland increased his majority to 9,103 in Leeds North West at the last election.

The question tonight is whether that is a sufficient cushion to allow him to ride out the national collapse of the Lib Dem vote.

Labour's Alex Sobel will be hoping to take advantage.

Alasdair Gill
BBC News, Yorkshire

Conservative Andrew Jones snatched this seat back from the Liberal Democrats in 2010 with a tiny majority of just 1,039 votes.

Former head teacher Phil Willis had held this traditionally Tory seat for the Lib Dems since 1997. He retired in 2010 and Mr Jones sneaked in.

This time the Tories are expecting a comfortable majority.

Lauren Potts
BBC Local Live

It'll be a few hours before the first results start flooding in, which means it will be a nail-biting night for some of the biggest names in politics.

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Labour leader Ed Miliband is defending his Doncaster North seat, while his right-hand man Ed Balls faces a fight to keep his Morley and Outwood seat.

Nick Clegg comfortably won his Sheffield Hallam seat in 2010 with a majority of more than 15,000 votes. But will 2015 be the first time a national party leader be toppled at a general election?

Nick Morris
BBC Yorkshire political reporter

If that exit poll is right, seven of North Yorkshire's seats are staying blue. All eyes now on #YorkCentral. @GemmaLDillon, external is there for @BBCYork, external

BBC Radio Sheffield's Dan Green has been talking to the UKIP candidate for Doncaster Central.

Chris Hodgson says they've had a lot of support: "We could see some surprises tonight."

James Vincent
BBC Look North

Problems with scanning postal votes will delay the count in Rotherham.

The council computer system crashed earlier this evening and an engineer is working on it.

They're hoping that it won't delay the count too much, it's now expected around 04:00 BST.

We're being told ballot boxes are starting to arrive in Bradford, where there have been some surprising results in the past.

In 2010, the city's former council leader and Liberal Democrat David Ward won with a slim majority of just 365 votes. He's up against the current deputy leader, Imran Hussain.

Meanwhile, in Bradford West, Respect's George Galloway snatched this traditionally held Labour seat in a by-election in 2012.

Lauren Potts
BBC Local Live

It seems like a long time since Prime Minister David Cameron launched his election campaign in the key marginal seat of Halifax.

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Since then, most of the party leaders have spent time in Yorkshire, which they identified as a key battleground in their bid to get to Number 10.

Mr Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have all been racing up and down the M62, trying to gain the confidence of votes in that cluster of marginally-held seats along the motorway, as the BBC's political editor in Yorkshire, Len Tingle, reported.

The BBC's North of England reporter Dan Johnson is live at the Wakefield count, where voting is already under way.

There are a number of seats being counted at Thorne's Park sports centre, including Hemsworth, Normanton Pontefract & Castleford and Wakefield.

Jodie Smith
BBC News

The people responsible for counting - and recounting - ballot papers will be steeling themselves for a night of intense pressure and concentration now the polling stations have shut.

Once the ballot boxes arrive, counters will sort the votes by party, then into piles of 25 or 50 when they will be then pass along to be "bundle-flicked" by a team leader.

"Everyone will be just be bundle-flicking," veteran count assistant, Lizzie Ridout, told me. "You can never get enough bundle-flicking."

BBC Radio York tweets, external: @MikeKemp3 in #Scarborough says the first ballot box has arrived. Verifying postal votes first. #GE2015

The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll.

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The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.

It suggests the Lib Dems will get 10 MPs, the SNP 58, Plaid Cymru four, UKIP two and the Greens two.

A Liberal Democrat press officer at the Sheffield count told our reporter: "The exit poll bears no resemblance to the other polls. We will wait and see and wait for the votes to be counted."

Former miner Sir Kevin Barron has been the Labour MP for Rother Valley since 1983.

But he faces a new threat in this election from UKIP, who took Rotherham council seats in the constituency last year.

The outcry over the Labour-controlled council's failings during the child abuse scandal has made Nigel Farage's party view this as a winnable seat.