Conservative Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, has held the seat of West Suffolk.

Tom Hunt, Conservative, gains Ipswich from Labour's Sandy Martin.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been re-elected as the MP for Suffolk West, with an increased majority.

The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Claire Unwin by 23,194 votes, 6,131 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.

Elfreda Tealby-Watson of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Donald Allwright came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 2.8 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 51,000 people, 64.1% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

One of the four candidates, Donald Allwright (Green) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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We're getting word from Ipswich that Labour candidate Sandy Martin's seat is very much under threat from the Conservative surge.

He has held the seat, which he won with a 831 majority, since 2017.

In Waveney, the turnout is down 3.3% to 62%. There were 51,318 ballots cast.

News from the count at police headquarters in Martlesham is that the Suffolk Coastal turnout is 71.4%, down 1.8%.

The turnout in West Suffolk - the constituency of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is 65%, down 1.9%.

Counting is happening at Ipswich, where the turnout is 65.8% (down 1.8%)

Echoing the trend across the East so far, the Bury St Edmunds turnout is down 3.2% to 69%.

We're close to getting a turnout for Suffolk Coastal from the police headquarters at Martlesham.

The count in Lowestoft is in full flow. We're expecting results at about 03:30.

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The count is well under way in Matt Hancock's constituency of West Suffolk.

Health secretary Matt Hancock, who has just arrived at the West Suffolk count in Newmarket, said his constituents consistently told him the same phrase: "Get it done."

"Parliament has blocked everything and it has been messy and complicated," he said.

"If we can get a majority we can just start moving forward.

"I’m now extremely confident we will get that done."

Six of the county's seven seats were Conservative in 2017, with Ipswich voting Labour.

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

Before today's election, the Conservatives held most of the seats in the East and the expectation is that they will continue to do so.

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But could the party be on the verge of holding nearly EVERY seat in the region?

If its Brexit message has gone down well in this largely leave supporting region, it should take North Norfolk and Ipswich (pictured) and hold its existing seats with increased majorities.

For Labour, it will be a tense night. It currently holds Ipswich, Peterborough and Bedford with majorities of under a thousand - they've been putting a lot of effort into taking Norwich North.

Success in these seats will show the party still has notable support in this region - failure would be a bitter blow.

Ben Parker
BBC Suffolk political reporter

All eyes in Suffolk will be on Ipswich tonight. Just 836 votes saw Labour’s Sandy Martin take the seat in 2017.

Mr Martin’s main competitor this time around is the Conservative’s Tom Hunt and he’s received considerable party support during the campaign.

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Tory cabinet ministers including Priti Patel, Michael Gove and Matt Hancock have all been seen in the town, compare that with Labour who sent just one shadow cabinet member.

Elsewhere in Suffolk, it would be a huge surprise to see anyone apart from a Conservative giving a victory speech. Many are defending majorities of more than 15,000.

The BBC has reporters at all of the seven election counts in Suffolk.

The county returned six Conservatives at the last general election in 2017.

The exception was in Ipswich, which saw Labour's Sandy Martin reclaim the seat from the Conservatives' Ben Gummer.

Check who's standing on the BBC's Find a constituency page.