Keele Students Union Council says up to 100 students have contacted it about problems.

Marcus Jones who retains his seat of Nuneaton tells the crowd at the election count he's honoured.

Postal voters in Newcastle-under-Lyme faced problems with voting as well as some students at Keele, it is claimed.

Up to 100 students were turned away from polling stations despite having polling cards with them at the time.

Keele University Biomedical sciences undergraduate, Andrew Niblett, 18, said in his group of five friends who applied to vote in the Newcastle-Under-Lyme area, just one had been correctly registered.

Image source, Keele University

Mr Niblett said despite complaining to the staff at the polling station that he had not received prompts, he was told: "Next time just check your mail and make sure you go through the process again."

A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said they had been in contact with electoral officers in Newcastle-under-Lyme about what students should do to cast their vote by the 22:00 deadline.

The chairman of Keele Student Union Council, Tom Snape, 21, said plenty of students have been in touch about problems so far.

A spokesman for Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said those affected by out-of-date printed electoral lists at polling stations had been able to vote after polling station staff phoned council offices to verify they were on the register.

He added: "We've had quite a few people claiming that they've not had postal votes but when we've looked into it that just hasn't been the case either."

The exit poll has suggested the Conservatives will be the largest party, but without overall majority.

But after official pollsters got it wrong over Brexit and Donald Trump's win, could a sweet shop in Warwick be the best place to predict the UK's 2017 general election result?

Customers to Mary's Sweet Emporium in Warwick have been asked to choose the coloured sweets that best represent the way they intend to vote.

The sweets are collected in different jars and added up at the end of each day.

After using the same method to predict Brexit and the Conservatives' 2015 victory, the shop owner has promised to eat his hat if he gets the result wrong.

Shelley Phelps
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Political Reporter

This is the place where two years ago at 1am Ed Miliband knew he'd lost the election for Labour.

It's a semi-marginal conservative held constituency known as a bellwether seat because it changes hands between Labour and Conservatives and tends to go with whichever party forms the government.

Labour lost the constituency seven years ago, but the party still runs the borough council here.

Two years ago, we took a look at what Labour had to do to win Nuneaton back.

Shelley Phelps
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Political Reporter

Labour sources are confident the party will retain Coventry South.

Of the three Labour held seats in the city, this is the most marginal and the Tories main target.

Jim Cunningham won it for Labour with a majority of just over 3,000 at the last general election.

But both the bookies and the polls have suggested Coventry could get its first Conservative MP here for two decades.

Image source, JLR

The constituency is home to the Cathedral and the majority of the city centre.

Main employers include the universities and Jaguar Land Rover at Whitley, which falls within the constituency.

James Pearson
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

The Redditch constituency was created in 1997; before this it had made up the bulk of Mid Worcestershire and before that had been included in Bromsgrove and Redditch.

The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith took the seat for Labour in 1997 with just under 50% of the vote and a majority of 6,125.

But she became one of Labour’s 2010 election casualties after becoming embroiled in the expenses scandal.

Conservative Karen Lumley took the seat with a majority of 5,821, though she extended her majority to 7,054.

This time round a long-standing illness has forced her to stand down.

The Labour candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme has criticised the electoral services department after reports of voting difficulties in the Staffordshire constituency.

The Facebook page for Keele's Media, Communication & Culture, external notified students of the problem on Thursday evening.

Paul Farrelly, speaking to the Guardian, external criticised the electoral services department.

"The electoral services department here in Newcastle is a shambles and there is chaos, which is denying people votes on a scale unprecedented in my 30 years fighting and organising elections.

"I will be referring tomorrow to the Electoral Commission and other bodies for an independent, outside investigation."

The electoral commission said on Twitter , externalthey were in contact with electoral officers in the constituency.

Nick Watson
Sunday Politics Midlands

You’ll hear a lot about swing on election night so what is it?

In a nutshell it’s an expression in percentage terms of the number of voters who need to swap sides in an election for a seat to change hands.

For example – the Conservatives need a swing of 3% to take Blanktown from Labour.

To put it another way three voters in every hundred need to switch (or swing) to the Conservatives from Labour in Blanktown to put it into the blue column.

Marginal seats (or swing seats as they are sometimes known) are the ones where the contest is so close that only a small percentage of voters need to switch to decide the outcome.

These are the ones journalists and politicians get excited about on election night and there are a lot of them in the West Midlands region.

In two straight two party contests calculating the swing is fairly straightforward but in an increasingly complicated multi-party world swing can sometimes be difficult to calculate!

Counting is underway at the Aldersley stadium in Tettenhall for the Wolverhampton parliamentary seats.

Shelley Phelps
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Political Reporter

Labour sources in Warwickshire have said they are optimistic about their chances of taking the Warwick and Leamington constituency off the Tories, where Chris White is defending a majority of 6,606.

It's a semi-marginal Conservative held seat whose previous representatives include former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden.

Historically the Conservatives held the seat from the time of the second world war right up until 1997 when Labour won it in the landslide and managed to hold onto it until 2010.

Warwick was the only district in the West Midlands that voted to remain - with almost 59% voting to stay in the EU.

Image source, RICHARD SOWERSBY/BBC

Ballot boxes carrying votes for the constituences of Birmingham Erdington, Hodgehill, Perry Barr, and Hall Green have begun to arrive at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.

Telford is the only seat in Shropshire with any realistic chance of changing hands; Lucy Allan is defending a majority of 730 for the Conservatives.

Telford was formerly included in the old Wrekin seat, which had swung between Labour and Conservative incumbents no fewer than seven times since 1945.

Emma Thomas
Political reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

In the wake of the recent terror attacks, security is being stepped up at polling stations.

Here at the Stoke-on-Trent counts armed police officers are in attendance.

There's also armed police at the count in Leek, with two armed officers, two other officers and a police van.

In Lichfield, there's two armed at the entrance, four in total. The other two are carrying tasers and batons.

Patrick Burns
Political editor, Midlands

Throughout the night and into the morning, we'll be bringing you an overview of the interesting seats across the West Midlands, the marginal seats and plenty of your views from throughout the campaign.

Let's start with taking a look at Erdington in the heart of Birmingham.

The Conservatives have been fighting hard for the 7% swing they need to capture the seat.

Image source, PA

It's where Theresa May's Downing Street Joint Chief of Staff Nick Timothy grew up. And it was he who oversaw that Conservative manifesto commitment on Social Care which is now widely considered the biggest single reason behind their apparent loss of support.

But it is also the constituency which registered the city's biggest Leave vote of 63% in the EU Referendum.

Now it happens to be one of 28 Midlands seats where UKIP are not fielding candidates, which could well boost the Conservatives.

There's been reports about voting difficulties in the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency.

Students at Keele University say some of them have been stopped from voting.

Student Lucy Walker thought she would be able to vote after registering before the deadline in May and added she didn't think to double check her application had been accepted.,

"I tried to vote around 14:30 today at a polling station at Keele Village Hall," she said.

Image source, Jonathan Hutchins

"I was told my name wasn't on the list and to go to Keele Student Union polling station.

"But when I went there they said I was not on the list there either."

She added a "ridiculous number of students were saying they could not vote."

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council says it understands that those affected haven't fully completed the registration process, so aren't eligible to vote.

The council also said that when people haven't filled in the forms properly it does contact them about what extra information is needed.

Joan Cummins
Midlands Today reporter

The ballot boxes are just starting to arrive at locations across the West Midlands.

Here's some of them arriving at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

The first election results are due before midnight with the final result expected by Friday lunchtime.

The exit poll suggests the Conservatives would be 12 short of an overall majority.

It suggests Labour would gain 34 seats, the Conservatives would lose 17 seats, the Lib Dems would gain six and the SNP lose 22 seats.

The Green Party would be unchanged with one seat and Plaid Cymru would still have three MPs, according to the poll.

In total, 30,450 people were interviewed as they exited from 144 polling stations across the UK.

And our first bit of news is that the Conservatives are set to be the largest party but without an overall majority according to a joint BBC/Sky/ITV exit poll, which indicated the Tories will win 314 seats and Labour 266.