Election results live: South

Summary

Updates on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 May 2015

Live Reporting

Hannah Bewley, Stephen Stafford, Adam Williams, Andrew Humphrey and Roz Tappenden

Isle of Wightpublished at 22:36 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
The Isle of Wight is the UK's most populous constituency.
Conservative Andrew Turner has had questions raised over his health and difficulties with his campaign - his electoral agent was replaced ten days before polling day. Mr Turner has been the island's MP since 2001 and won 46.7% of the vote in 2010.
Will he keep his seat against strong Lib Deb, UKIP, Green and Labour campaigns?
Key marginalspublished at 22:34 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
The Lib Dems have been fighting to hold two key seats in the South - Eastleigh and Dorset Mid and Poole North. In Eastleigh Mike Thornton held on to the seat in a by-election after the resignation of disgraced cabinet minister Chris Huhne. The Lib Dems were run close by UKIP who will be hoping to go one better this time around.
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In Dorset Mid and Poole North Liberal Democrat Annette Brooke, MP since 2001, is standing down. In 2010, she held the seat with 45.1% of the votes; the Conservatives got 44.5%
Oxfordpublished at 22:30 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
More than 50,000 polling stations were open from 07:00.
Many were in schools, church halls and community centres, but this was one of the more unusual locations - a laundrette in Headington outside Oxford.
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Postpublished at 22:27 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Roz Tappenden
BBC South
Oxford City Council apologised this morning after voters arrived at one polling station to find part of the electoral register was missing.
Image source, Google
Some voters arriving at Rose Hill Methodist Church in the first hour were unable to cast their ballots.
Safe Seatspublished at 22:22 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Peter Henley
Political editor, South of England
Many of the South's seats are not likely to change party hands at this election.
Image source, Reuters
In a stream of Conservative safe seats - Horsham, Fareham, North-East Hampshire, Banbury, North Dorset - it's likely a new MP has already been chosen before a ballot has been cast.
BBC South's Political Editor Peter Henley looked at the issue of these safe seats.
Breaking Newspublished at 22:19 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
The Conservatives are set to be the largest party but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll.
The survey suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.
The finishing line needed to form a majority is 326.
Eastleigh expectationspublished at 22:14 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
Among the South's early declarations, we're expecting a result at Eastleigh at about 02:30 BST.
The Hampshire constituency was won by Lib Dem Chris Huhne at the last general election, but a by-election followed his resignation after his prosecution for passing speeding points to his ex-wife.
UKIP came a close second to Lib Dem Mike Thornton in the by-election.
Results timingspublished at 22:10 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
We are expecting the first results in the region to come in the early hours of Friday.
A declaration at Oxford East could be at around 01:30.
It's got one of the highest proportions of student voters. Labour's Andrew Smith won the seat in 2010, beating the Lib Dems by 4,581 votes.
Postpublished at 22:05 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Stephen Stafford
BBC News Online
Welcome to our live coverage of the general election 2015.
I'll be bringing you results, reaction and analysis as votes are counted for seats across Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire. You can follow tweets using the hashtag #SouthVote and email us your pictures and comments.