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. Carmarthen East: Plaid Cymru hold

    Election result

  2. Liverpool Riverside: Labour hold

    Result graphic

  3. Live results map

    MapBBC/Facebook

    Over on the BBC News Facebook page, we’ve got an electoral map of the UK that’s updating live as the results come in.

  4. Watson: May is going to regret 'opportunism'

    Election 2017

    "It would be very foolish for anyone in the Labour Party to step down" following the general election, its deputy leader Tom Watson says.

    He claims people told him during the campaign that this was "an unnecessary election" and Theresa May is going to regret that "opportunism".

    "Be careful what you wish for if you have unnecessary and uncalled for general elections," he adds.

  5. Results so far

    Scoreboard graphic

  6. Should moderates learn lessons from France?

    BBC World Service

    It's still early days but but former LibDem leader Lord Ashdown is sounding a gloomy note. Speaking to the BBC World Service, he said that moderates had "not got their act together", focusing on tribal politics "rather than acting as a gathering point - as Emmanuel Macron has done in En Marche in France".

    Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown says UK needs to follow the French example

  7. Hartlepool: Labour hold

    Election result

  8. Tyneside North: Labour hold

    Result graphic

  9. Turnout may be highest since 1997

    Professor John Curtice
    Polling expert

    Polling stationGetty Images

    Turnout is so far up by 3 points, but could still be below 70% at the end of the night.

    Nevertheless, that would be the highest turnout since 1997.

  10. Erewash: Conservative hold

    Election result

  11. Folkestone & Hythe: Conservative hold

    Election result

  12. Dundee East: SNP hold

    Result graphic

  13. Torfaen: Labour hold

    Election result

  14. Anybody got a calculator?

    Mark Lobel
    BBC political reporter

    The returning officer and team (pictured here) urgently recalculate the turnout in Morecambe.

    After they announced an eye-watering 82.5% turnout, to whoops of disbelief, it proved too good to be true.

    Morecambe muddle

    I questioned their maths. So they went back to the drawing board and guess what, they cut 14% off the figure, which now sits at 68.4%. Which is slightly up on 65% in 2015.

  15. First reaction from Lib Dem leader

    Farron

    Lib Dem leader Tim Farron tells reporters outside his home "it's too early to say" how his party has done and he's "looking forward to the rest of the night".

    BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg points out he's at risk of losing his Westmorland seat.

  16. Justine Greening gives speech after Putney victory

    Justine Greening gives her victory speech after she held her seat Putney.

  17. Tories make first gain of the night

    Professor John Curtice
    Polling expert

    The Conservatives have made their first gain in Scotland, winning Angus which has been an SNP seat since its creation in 1997.

  18. Angus: Conservative gain from SNP

    Result graphic

  19. DUP candidate rules out being 'NI branch of the Conservatives'

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  20. Castle Point: Conservative hold

    Result graphic