Hastings & Rye: Conservative Holdpublished at 06:05 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd holds Hastings and Rye by just 346 votes
Conservatives hold all seats in Surrey
Labour take Canterbury and Brighton Kemptown from the Conservatives
Craig Mackinlay holds South Thanet days after being charged over election expenses
Lib Dems take Eastbourne from Conservatives
Caroline Lucas holds Brighton Pavilion for the Greens
Ukip leader Paul Nuttall resigns
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Sir Julian Brazier loses. Canterbury no longer has a Conservative MP for the first time in more than 100 years.
Jon Hunt
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Ben Weisz
Political reporter, BBC Sussex
Before this election Sussex was a sea of Tory blue. That sea has not evaporated.
Seats like Chichester and Wealden were never in doubt. While the Tories saw off the Lib Dems in a tight tussle in Lewes.
But the tide has receded a little.
First came the news that Amber Rudd was in trouble in Hastings. And though she eventually won the day, Labour's Peter Chowney ran her very close.
For an incumbent Home Secretary, even with a relatively small majority, it's quite a shock.
Amber Rudd waits anxiously for the result
Then the news that Hove would not turn blue, shattering any remaining hope of a Tory landslide.
In conceding to Labour, the Tory campaign manager in Hove told me the ill-fated launch of the Conservative manifesto changed the tone of the campaign and put the Tories on the defensive.
Then followed Stephen Lloyd's return to office in Eastbourne for the Lib Dems.
Stephen Lloyd celebrates in Eastbourne
As we headed into morning, Kemptown fell to Labour. Lloyd Russell-Moyle didn't just unseat Treasury Minister Simon Kirby. He got a majority of nearly 10,000. Kemptown is no longer a marginal.
It may be a truism but plenty of those in the political world paid it no heed. Voters will not be told how they're going to vote weeks in advance.
Amanda Akass
Reporter, BBC South East Today
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Reporter, BBC South East Today
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Sterling falls sharply against the dollar as the Conservatives struggle for a Commons majority.
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As ballots are counted in constituencies across England, here are some of the more unusual sights caught on camera.
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