Emily Unia
BBC reporter

Tim Farron holds Westmorland & Lonsdale and slightly increases his majority:

Trudy Harrison has held her Copeland seat with an increased majority.

She went from 1,695 in 2017 to 5,842 today.

Conservative John Stevenson has held Carlisle:

Mark Jenkinson has been elected as the MP for Workington, beating shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman by 4,176 votes.

The Conservative Party overturned a 3,925 vote majority to take the formerly Labour-held seat.

David Walker of the Brexit Party came third and Liberal Democrat Neil Hughes came fourth.

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

Nearly 42,000 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 seven candidates lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Labour have held the seat of Workington almost entirely since 1918, but today it has a new Conservative MP in Mark Jenkinson

• Independent - Nicky Cockburn - 842
• Labour - Sue Hayman - 16,312
• Liberal Democrat - Neil Hughes - 1,525
• Independent - Roy Ivinson - 87
• Conservative - Mark Jenkinson - 20,488
• Green - Jill Perry - 596
• The Brexit Party - David Walker - 1,749

Many of the elections us hardened hacks have had to cover in the past have been in draughty gyms, council offices and sports halls, but the backdrop for Barrow's is lovely:

Neither Conservatives nor Labour activists are prepared to call this one.

The Conservatives are "quietly confident" in Workington:

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

If Mr Johnson is to win an overall majority, he is likely to have to win a significant number of marginal seats from Labour.

Of Labour's 50 most marginal seats, as many as 39 voted in favour of Leave in the 2016 referendum. In 16, more than 60% voted Leave.

These leave-inclined marginals - in north-east Wales, the Midlands and the north of England - are said to form Labour's "red wall".

They are seats in which Labour came only narrowly ahead of the Conservatives in the 2017 election. Many, such as Bishop Auckland, Workington, and Wrexham, have traditionally been safe Labour seats. Indeed, some of them have never returned a Conservative in a post-war general election.

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Jonathan, who has been dispatched to Copeland for the count there, needs to start pacing himself.

We expect the result to be declared at 03:00, so he's got a fair bit of time left...

Counting gets under way in Barrow.

Richard Moss
Political Editor, BBC Look North

The exit poll certainly suggests the Conservatives could go beyond their initial target seats in the North East and Cumbria.

If right, Bishop Auckland, Stockton South, Darlington and Workington might have gone.

The likes of Sedgefield, Blyth Valley are certainly in play - and maybe beyond that.

I'm certainly hearing of large turnouts in Brexit-voting parts of the North East.

Conservative sources are suggesting it may be voters who turned out in 2016 determined to show backing for leaving the EU.

There will be fury among many Labour candidates in the North East and Cumbria at leadership and strategy that could turn red seats blue here - even possibly losing Tony Blair's former Sedgefield seat.

No results are in yet of course though.

The first ballot boxes have arrived in for the count in Copeland.

The Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of 86 in the general election, according to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky News.

The survey taken at UK polling stations suggests the Tories will get 368 MPs - 50 more than at the 2017 election - when all the results have been counted.

The reaction was swift in Whitehaven in Cumbria:

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