Summary

  • Conservatives take the Labour seat of Walsall North

  • Labour takes Warwick and Leamington

  • Conservatives hold onto Nuneaton and gain Stoke-on-Trent South

  • Preet Gill becomes first female Sikh MP in Birmingham Edgbaston

  • Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson holds West Bromwich East

  • Keele University students 'unable to vote'

  • Exit poll predicts Tories will be largest party but without overall majority

  • For election updates from your local area only, click on Related Stories

Live Reporting

Monica Rimmer and Andy Giddings

  1. Walsall North: 'Every vote was hard fought'

    Conservative Eddie Hughes has paid tribute to his predecessor 83-year-old David Winnick (pictured), who lost his Labour seat to the Tories by 2,601 votes after serving Walsall North since 1979.

    David Winnick

    I've knocked on a lot of doors this campaign and they were certainly happy to vote for David, because of their personal experience of him as their MP. We knew right from he start every vote was going to be hard fought.

    Eddie Jones, Conservative

  2. Warwick & Leamington: Labour gain from Conservative

    Election result

  3. Stoke-on-Trent Central: Labour hold
    Breaking

    Gareth Snell, the man who beat UKIP's Paul Nuttall in the recent Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, has won a majority of 3,897.

    The UKIP candidate only won 1,608 votes.

  4. Walsall South: Labour hold

    Result graphic

  5. Lichfield: Conservative hold

    Result graphic

  6. Cheers as Tories hold Worcester

    Robin Walker keeps hold of the seat he first won in 2010.

  7. Stoke-on-Trent North: Labour hold
    Breaking

    Labour have held the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency.

    Ruth Smeeth has a majority of 2.359.

  8. Halesowen & Rowley Regis: Conservative hold
    Breaking

    James Morris for the Conservatives has held the Halesowen & Rowley Regis seat.

  9. North Shropshire: Conservative easy hold
    Breaking

    The Conservatives have retained the North Shropshire seat with little difficulty.

    The prominent Brexit campaigner Owen Paterson has won a majority of 16,355.

    It's the sixth time he's been elected as the Member of Parliament there.

    Owen Paterson

  10. 'I'm grateful to the people of Telford'

    Lucy Allan holds onto her seat in Telford with a small majority over her nearest Labour rival.

  11. Telford: Labour regrets over turning down Green Party offer?

    Andy Giddings
    BBC Shropshire

    After the election was called, the Green Party offered to support Labour by not fielding a candidate in the Telford constituency.

    They turned that offer down and might regret that now because the Greens received 898 votes and the margin of victory for the Conservatives was just 720.

  12. Birmingham Selly Oak: Labour hold

    Result graphic

  13. Ludlow: Conservative hold
    Breaking

    The Conservatives have held onto the Ludlow seat.

    Philip Dunne has a majority of 19,286.

    Labour have made big strides though - they finished fourth in 2015 and were second this time around.

  14. Birmingham Edgbaston: Preet Gill an 'excellent role model'

    Preet Gill held the seat in Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour becoming the first female Sikh to be elected.

    Bhai Amrik Singh, Chair of the Sikh Federation said: "We are delighted to have the first Sikh woman MP in Preet Kaur Gill in Birmingham, Edgbaston.

    "She will be a fantastic MP, a credit to the Sikh community and an excellent role model."

    Preet Gill

    The seat had been held by Gisela Stuart who stepped down when the election was called.

  15. Aldridge-Brownhills: Conservative hold

    Result graphic

  16. Herefordshire North: Conservative hold with increased majority
    Breaking

    The Conservatives have held onto the North Herefordshire seat.

    Bill Wiggin was returned to parliament with a majority of 21,602 - up by over 1,000 on 2015.

    And we've got a recount underway at Crewe and Nantwich.

  17. Stafford: Conservative hold

    Election Graphic

  18. Shrewsbury: Kawczynski accepts mistakes made in campaign

    The victorious Shrewsbury candidate, Daniel Kawczynski says he hopes Theresa May stays on as the Conservative party leader.

    He did accept the campaign could have gone "a lot better" and said "questions would be raised" if the party fails to get a majority.

    Coincidentally, one of our reporters has spotted this on the notice board at the sports centre where the Shrewsbury result was announced.

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  19. Telford: Conservative hold

    Election result

  20. Warwick and Leamington: 'Astonishing swing'

    Turnout was 72.8% in Warwick and Leamington with Labour's Matt Western gaining 25,227 votes, a 1,206 majority over his Conservative rival Chris White.

    Mr Western's team tweeted: "7.6% swing! "Astonishing" - 68 on target list!! #LabourVictory".

    The Liberal Democrat candidate Nick Solman was third with 2,810 votes.