Kingswood: Con holdpublished at 04:31 Greenwich Mean Time 13 December 2019Breaking
Conservative Chris Skidmore has held onto his seat in Kingswood.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has been re-elected for the Conservatives in North East Somerset
All four Bristol seats have been declared as Labour holds
The Conservatives have held on to all their seats in the West including Cheltenham, Gloucester, Weston-super-Mare and Wells
Labour's David Drew lost his Stroud seat to Siobhan Baillie of the Conservatives
Bath held by the Liberal Democrats, with Wera Hobhouse re-elected
The Conservatives have won an overall majority making them the ruling party
Polly March, Ian Parker, Steve Mellen, Jackie Coles and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley
Conservative Chris Skidmore has held onto his seat in Kingswood.
In Cheltenham, the sorting boxes are coming back out. They are re-checking the bundles.
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Conservative James Gray has held onto his seat in North Wiltshire.
Jack Lopresti has been reelected for a fourth term in Filton and Bradley Stoke, beating a challenge from Labour's Mhairi Threlfall.
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Luke Hall has retained the seat for the Conservatives
Wiltshire South West has been held by Conservative Andrew Murrison.
Conservative James Heappey has been re-elected as the MP for Wells.
In his victory speech he said: "Parties need to work together now."
Mark Harper has been re-elected as the MP for Forest Of Dean, with an increased majority.
The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Di Martin by 15,869 votes, 6,367 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.
Chris McFarling of the Green Party came third and independent candidate Julian Burrett came fourth.
Voter turnout was down by 1 percentage point since the last general election.
More than 51,000 people, roughly 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, Julian Burrett (independent) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.
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Jack Lopresti has held the seat of Filton and Bradley Stoke for the Conservatives.
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So far there have been few surprises in the West region.
Michele Donelan re-elected - Con - 30,994; Helen Belcher - Lib Dems - 19,706; Martha Anachury - Lab - 6,399
Conservative Alex Chalk tells reporter Steve Knibbs: "I'm feeling pretty zen. I've done everything I can and now I'm just waiting for the result"
Richard Graham has been re-elected as the MP for Gloucester, with an increased majority.
The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Fran Boait by 10,277 votes, 4,757 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.
Rebecca Trimnell of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Michael Byfield came fourth.
Voter turnout was up by 0.9 percentage points since the last general election.
Nearly 54,000 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.
One of the four candidates, Michael Byfield (Green) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.
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Wera Hobhouse has been re-elected as the MP for Bath, with an increased majority.
The Liberal Democrat candidate beat Conservative Annabel Tall by 12,322 votes, more than double the majority at the 2017 election.
Mike Davies of the Labour Party came third and the Brexit Party's Jimi Ogunnusi came fourth.
Voter turnout was up by 2.7 percentage points since the last general election.
More than 52,000 people, roughly three-quarters of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.
Two of the five candidates, Jimi Ogunnusi (The Brexit Party) and Bill Blockhead (independent) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.
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"I think it's pretty childish of a party that aims to be a party of government, not taking responsibility for its own failures," Molly Scott Cato says, in reply to local Labour criticism for her decision not to withdraw.
The Conservatives have gained the seat from Labour, with a majority for Siobhan Baillie of 3,840 votes.
Gloucestershire County Council Labour leader, Lesley Williams, on hearing the result, told the BBC: "I am extremely disappointed. If the Greens really did care about not returning a Conservative government... then they wouldn't have have stood."
"The poll for David [Drew] and Molly [Scott Cato] together would have given David the win. I despair of what I am seeing in the country at the moment."
But the Green candidate and current MEP for the South West, Cato, says "the people who voted for me would never have voted for Labour because they were voting for me precisely because they didn't want to vote for Jeremy Corbyn's party, or because they didn't want to visit for Johnson's Tories."
"I hope that the good thing to come out of this will be that Labour will learn that they too have to campaign for a fairer system."
Kerry McCarthy has held Bristol East for Labour polling 27,717 votes.
The Conservative Sarah Codling was runner up with 16,923.
Liberal Democrat Nicholas Coombes 3,527
Green Conan Connolly 2,106
The Brexit Party Tim Page 1,881
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been re-elected as the Conservative MP for North East Somerset with 28,360 votes.
Mark Huband (Labour) got 13,631, Nick Coates (Liberal Democrat) 12,422 Fay Whitfield (Green) 1,423 and Shaun Hughes (Independent) 472
Labour's Darren Jones has held Bristol North West, polling 27,330 votes.
Conservative Mark Weston was runner-up with 21,638, Liberal Democrat Chris Coleman 4,940, and Green candidate Heather Mack 1,977.
Turnout was 73.3%.
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The Conservatives have gained the previously Labour-held seat of Stroud, where turnout was 78.2%.
New Conservative candidate Siobhan Baillie gained 31,582 votes. The outgoing MP David Drew had 27,742 this time.
He had previously had a majority of 687 at the 2017 election.
It had been thought that votes for the Green candidate, MEP Molly Scott Cato, could split the vote in this home of the climate-action campaign group Extinction Rebellion. She gained just 4,954 votes.
Desi Latimer of the Brexit Party and Glenville Gogerly, Libertarian Party, received 1,085 and 567 votes respectively.
Mrs Baillie is the first elected female MP in the history of the Stroud constituency.
Bath Result: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat) 28,419
Annabel Tall (Conservative) 16,097
Mike Davies (Labour) 6,639
Jimi Ogunnusi (Brexit Party) 642
Bill Blockhead 341