Summary

  • Election ends in hung Parliament: Conservatives win 318 seats, Labour 262

  • PM confirms five top cabinet posts, including chancellor and foreign secretary

  • Tories to form government with DUP to 'provide certainty' and keep country 'safe'

  • Theresa May's government 'will carry on Brexit negotiations to existing timetable'

  • Jeremy Corbyn hails Labour's 'incredible result' and calls for May to resign

  • The Lib Dems' Tim Farron also calls on May to quit

  • SNP will work with others to keep 'reckless' Tories out 'if at all possible'

  • Paul Nuttall resigns as UKIP leader after the party won no seats

Live Reporting

  1. Seats indicative of a 'crazy' election

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  2. Labour hold Batley and Spen

    Tracy Brabin is re-elected as the MP for Morley and Outwood.

  3. A quick recap: Predictions and scalps

    • With more than half of results in, the BBC has updated its forecast for the final result.
    • It is predicting 318 seats for the Conservatives, down 13 on 2015, 267 for Labour - up 35 seats, 32 seats for the SNP, a loss of 24 seats, the Lib Dems up three to 11 seats, Plaid Cymru remaining on three seats, the Greens on one, UKIP on none and 18 seats to other parties
    • Former Lib Dem Leader and former deputy PM Nick Clegg lost his Sheffield Hallam seat.
    • Treasury minister Jane Ellison lost her Battersea seat.
    • SNP leader in Westminster, Angus Robertson lost his seat to the Conservatives.
    • A few old faces are back though, most notably, Sir Vince Cable, for the Lib Dems

  4. Clacton: Conservative gain from UKIP

    Election result

  5. Norfolk North West: Conservative hold

    Result graphic

  6. Ellesmere Port & Neston: Labour hold

    Election Graphic

  7. May talks of 'period of stability' in count speech

    May: 'This country needs a period of stability'

  8. May holds her Maidenhead seat

    A silver lining to the prime minister's cloud as she retains her seat in parliament.

  9. Aberdeen South: Conservative gain from SNP

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  10. East Lothian: Labour gain from SNP

    Election result

  11. Sedgefield: Labour hold

    Election result

  12. Good night for the DUP and Sinn Fein

    Chris Page
    BBC News NI Political Correspondent

    It's been an extraordinarily good night for the two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein.

    It's been a disastrous result for the SDLP who lost all three of their seats, and the best ever for DUP, who are in a strong position regarding what happens after in terms of the Westminster Parliament.

    They see it as increasing their hand in negotiations on devolution as well.

    Sinn Fein has been very clear its MPs won't take their seats regardless of the arithmetic, as all their candidates stood on abstentionist tickets.

  13. Inverness: SNP hold

    Election Graphic

  14. Glasgow North: SNP hold

    Election result

  15. Results so far

    Scoreboard graphic

  16. The Cotswolds: Conservative hold

    Election result

  17. Manchester Central: Labour hold

    Election Graphic

  18. Vince Cable: May's version of Brexit no longer an option

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    Sir Vince CAblePA

    Lib Dem Sir Vince Cable, who's won in Twickenham, says his party is "doing well in London and in Scotland, we're looking at a significant increase in our parliamentary party".

    "We're very clear on the big picture, that we won't take part in any coalition but we want to be constructive.

    "Parties are going to have to work together not shout at each other."

    In the new Parliament he thinks it will be "possible to pursue a Brexit which retains single market" and Theresa May's vision of what he calls "extreme Brexit" is "simply no longer an option".

  19. Sturgeon: We want to be in progressive alliance

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    Nicola Sturgeon

    Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP "has won the election in Scotland", but she is disappointed her deputy Angus Robertson has lost his seat.

    She says Mr Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, was "such an outstanding MP and an exceptional leader in the House of Commons".

    She adds that the election has been "a disaster" for Theresa May, and she hopes the SNP can play a part in a progressive alliance that is an alternative to the Tories.

  20. Cambridge: Labour hold

    Election Graphic