Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has narrowly held on to his seat, seeing his majority slashed from 23,298 to nearly 3,000.

Crispin Blunt holds onto his Reigate seat with a slightly increased majority.

Like its coastal neighbour Eastbourne, this Sussex town will be one of the key battlegrounds between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

It’s currently in blue hands, with Maria Caulfield taking it from former Coalition minister Norman Baker in 2015, and then holding it in 2017 with a majority of 5,508.

It’s tenth on the Lib Dems list of target seats, and the party’s candidate Oli Henman will be hoping to cash in on pro-European feeling, with Lewes voting 52.9% remain in 2016.

Maria Caulfield is a Brexiteer, who resigned her party role as vice-chair for women over Theresa May’s Chequers proposal.

Laura Trott, a former adviser to David Cameron, takes over from the retiring Sir Michael Fallon as MP for Sevenoaks, with a slightly decreased majority.

Damian Collins has been re-elected as the MP for Folkestone & Hythe, with an increased majority.

The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Laura Davison by 21,337 votes, 5,926 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.

Simon Bishop of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Georgina Treloar came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 1.4 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 59,000 people, roughly two-thirds of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Five of the eight candidates lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Rosie Duffield has been re-elected as the MP for Canterbury, increasing her very slim majority.

The Labour candidate beat Conservative Anna Firth by 1,836 votes, compared to her 2017 winning margin of only 187.

Claire Malcomson of the Liberal Democrats came third and independent candidate Michael Gould came fourth.

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Voter turnout was up by 2.3 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 60,000 people, exactly three-quarters 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, Michael Gould (independent) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Claire Coutinho is elected as MP for Surrey East, increasing slightly the majority of her predecessor Sam Gyimah, who defected to the Liberal Democrats.

Natalie Elphicke replaces her husband Charlie as Dover MP, doubling his majority from 2017.

Former minister Damian Green has held onto his mid-Kent seat, with a much increased majority.

Caroline Ansell has been elected as MP for Eastbourne, a seat she held between 2015 and 2017, when she lost it to previous Liberal Democrat incumbent Stephen Lloyd, who had a majority of 1,609.

The Conservative majority this time around is over 4,000.

A seat which has only existed since 1997, this has always been a Conservative hold.

With fruit farming the predominant local trade, sitting MP Helen Whately has campaigned on the issue of visas for seasonal workers in a post-Brexit UK.

Nus Ghani has retained Wealden, increasing her majority by 2,000.

Amanda Akass
Reporter, BBC South East Today

A message of support from one of the South East's outgoing MPs.

Damian Collins has held onto his seat with a majority of 21,337, an increase of over 6,000 from 2017.

Rosie Duffield will continue as Canterbury MP with a turnout of 75%.

Lauren Moss
Political editor, BBC South East

We could be approaching our first declaration of the evening here in the South East.

Jack Fiehn
Political reporter

I'm at the Guildford count, but I'm not expecting a quick result.