BBC Radio Devon's Caroline Adams tweets, external: "Food strategy for a long night at Totnes count? Hot coffee and gummy bear says Labour's Nicky Williams".

Andy Birkett
Reporter, BBC Spotlight

Continuing our journey through SW political history, it's back to the 19th century.

In Grampound corruption was so bad that the return of two members in the 1818 general election was overturned by a petition alleging gross bribery.

Grampound was eventually disenfranchised and its two seats were transferred to the new Parliamentary Borough of Leeds.

Tom Palmer
BBC News Online

We're set for some very close finishes across the region tonight - and we've had some paper thin results before.

In 2010 George Eustice won Camborne & Redruth by 66 votes, and in 1997 Adrian Sanders won Torbay by just 12.

If those exit polls are right, Torbay could again go to the wire.

BBC journalist Harriet Bradshaw tweets, external: "Ballot boxes arriving at Exeter count."

Labour's Ben Bradshaw has held the seat since 1997.

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has made four appearances in Cornwall during the election campaign, which has traditionally been a stronghold for his party.

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While Conservative leader David Cameron has made three appearances.

However, there has been no sign of the other larger party leaders.

UKIP's Nigel Farage didn't follow up on an early March visit, it was the deputy leader of the Green party who travelled to Penzance - and Ed Miliband hasn't made it into the far South West. But whether any of this will make a difference to the votes is debatable - and of course hard to measure.

Michael Chequer
Presenter, BBC Radio Devon

BBC Radio Devon's Michael Chequer tweets, external: "@UKIP's Andrew Chapman say he can take East Devon, and that Exit Polls are wrong #votesw #bbcelections2015 @BBCDevon"

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

Cornwall Council says it expects the counts to begin between 01:30 and 02:00 BST on Friday - except for the St Ives constituency where ballot boxes have to be flown from the Isles of Scilly and counting will not start until 10:00. Declaration is expected at 16:00.

The results for the other constituencies are expected at about 06:30, the authority says.

Kirk England
BBC Radio Devon

In Barnstaple, all the ballot boxes have arrived and the votes are being counted for the Devon North constituency.

John Danks
BBC Spotlight

I'm at the Exeter count in the city's Corn Exchange. They estimate declaration here will be around 2.45-3.00am.

Tom Palmer
BBC News Online

If the exit poll is correct St Ives could go Tory. The seat has been held by Lib Dem Andrew George since 1997.

Tom Palmer
BBC News Online

Throughout the evening we will also bring you a rundown of the constituencies across the region - and we may as well start at the bottom, geographically speaking.

St Ives is the most south-westerly constituency in the country, and has been held by the Liberal Democrats since 1997, when Andrew George took the seat from the Conservatives.

This seat includes the Isles of Scilly - so ballot boxes have to be flown to the mainland.

Sophie Pierce
BBC Radio Devon

BBC journalist Sophie Piece tweets, external: "Verification underway at Newton Abbot count. All the news live @BBCDevon #GE 2015."

BBC journalist Harriet Bradshaw tweets, external: "Exeter's UKIP candidate Keith Crawford with team waiting in the bar at the count #votesw"

Andy Birkett
Reporter, BBC Spotlight

Throughout the night we'll be bringing you some of the weird and wonderful tales from elections gone by.

To start with, the old parliamentary constituency of Grampound in Cornwall - which existed between 1707 and 1821 - was known as one of the most corrupt boroughs in UK electoral history.

The few men who were allowed to vote were more interested in how much they could sell their votes for rather than who was elected to represent them.

In Plymouth, BBC journalist Amika Saw tweets, external: "The boxes are arriving! @BBCDevon #GE2015".

BBC journalist Caroline Adams tweets, external: "Almost chocs away at Totnes as counters await ballot boxes - save me a Hazelnut whirl"

Election 2015

What happens if there is another hung Parliament like there was in 2010?

There will be another frenzied round of talks between the party leaders and their negotiating teams, as they try to put together another coalition government or a looser deal to put either Conservative leader David Cameron or Labour leader Ed Miliband (the only two people with a realistic chance) into power as Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street.

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Or one of the two party leaders could opt to go it alone and try to run a minority government, relying on the support of smaller parties when needed to get their laws passed.

Jenny Kumah
Political Reporter

Labour had two MPs elected in Devon in 2010 and both are standing for re-election this year.

Ben Bradshaw returned to Exeter with a reduced majority in 2010.

Meanwhile, Alison Seabeck took Plymouth Moor View with a majority of just 1,588 votes. She's been a Plymouth MP for 10 years, but academic Matthew Goodwin says her constituency is one of five in the country that are most likely to return a UKIP MP. If this happens it will definitely be the story of the night.

Tom Palmer
BBC News Online

Polling stations have closed across the South West in the 2015 general election.

People could vote from 07:00 until 22:00 BST, and most of the results are expected to be announced overnight.

You can follow the results as they come in on our election live service.

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

Cornwall Council said 420,985 people have registered to vote, with the authority receiving 74,016 applications for postal votes.

The breakdown for the individual constituencies is:

• St Ives - Electorate: 65,570 ; Postal Votes: 13,793

• Camborne and Redruth - Electorate: 66,944; Postal Votes: 11,494

• Truro and Falmouth - Electorate: 73,601 ; Postal Votes: 11,062

• South East Cornwall - Electorate: 71,071; Postal Votes: 13,907

• North Cornwall - Electorate: 67,192 ; Postal Votes: 11,787

• St Austell and Newquay - Electorate: 76,607; Postal Votes: 11,973