Chris Quevatre
BBC News Online

Liberal Democrat candidate Martin Wrigley has summed up the General Election nicely.

However large the interview panel may be, incumbent Conservative MP Anne Marie Morris is likely to be holding the Newton Abbot seat.

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

The Green Party candidate in Exeter believes he has done enough to keep his deposit but said action on electoral reform is urgently needed.

In the 2017 election, 25-year-old Joe Levy lost his deposit with 1,027 votes. The £500 deposit is only returned if the candidate secures at least 5% of the votes cast.

He said there has been a positive response on the doorstep for the Green Party message but with lots of people telling him they would vote tactically for Labour to keep the Conservatives out.

He said: "Labour needs to embrace electoral reform because it's suffering right now.

"If it wants to be in government again it will have to look at other options."

Sophie Pierce
BBC Radio Devon

Sarah Wollaston’s agent, John Birch, pictured centre, says she has encountered “quite a lot of hostility on the doorstep” and in general, reaction to her candidacy has been “mixed”.

The former Conservative MP joined the Liberal Democrats in August, saying it was the best way for her to fight for the UK to remain in the EU.

The exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky News suggests the seat will be Tory.

• Sarah Wollaston: Ex-Tory MP joins Lib Dems
• MP joins Lib Dems: Voters' reaction

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Brexit Party candidate Ann Widdecombe says she was never expecting to win the seat in Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, but the South West MEP is "looking forward" to "getting her P45" when the UK leaves the European Union.

On a separate note, she remains tight-lipped about her return to pantomimes.

Exit polls show Labour incumbent Luke Pollard is likely to keep his seat.

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UKIP said its manifesto was a "symphony of common-sense" which was "crammed full of radical policies".

They included:

• Complete withdrawal from the EU so the UK could "become an independent, self-governing, sovereign state"
• No benefits for foreign nationals until resident and having paid five years of tax and national insurance, and net immigration reduced to below 10,000 per year
• Increasing the armed forces’ budget by £7bn and 30,000 more police
• Reclaim full control of British fishing grounds
• Scrap the Climate Change Act to "separate the hysterical dogma of man-made climate change from genuine conservation"
• Ban non-stun slaughter in the UK

You can find out more at the party's website, external.

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Not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party has candidates in all six of Cornwall parliamentary constituencies.

Saying it is the "original Liberal Party of David Penhaligan, Lloyd George and William E Gladstone", it says it stands for "liberty, individual freedom and social justice" - and is pro-Brexit.

It said its priorities included:

• To uphold the democratic will of the people in the 2016 Referendum to leave the EU
• To ensure hospital parking profits to go to hospital, not private companies
• Getting an NHS dentist for every resident in every town and increasing investment for social care
• Preventing over-development of so called "affordable housing" to ensure social housing needs are met instead
• A bank in every town
• A Cornish Assembly to replace Cornwall Council
• Separate ministries for farming and fishing, and re-establishing the Milk Marketing Board to protect British farmers from exploitation of supermarkets
• No fracking

You can find out more at the party's website, external.

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The Green Party of England and Wales launched its 2019 manifesto, called: "If Not Now, When?", with the full document, external setting out a "Green New Deal" - proposing measures from replacing fossil fuels to insulating houses and investing in cycle paths.

The proposals included:

• Spend £100bn a year to cut emissions, with greenhouse gas emissions to be cut to zero by 2030 to tackle climate change
• Invest £6bn in the NHS a year until 2030, with a further £1bn per year for nursing higher education
• Remove fossil fuels from the economy
• Plant 700 million trees by 2030

To find out more, see our more comprehensive look at the Greens' manifesto.

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The Reality Check team has navigated the most questionable figures that have cropped up in the election campaign.

They include:

• £1.2 trillion - the extra amount the Conservative Party said that Labour would spend over the next five years"
• £500m a week (a Labour claimed that a Conservative trade deal with the US would mean the NHS having to spend this amount on drugs)
• 40 new hospitals
• A £6,000 increase in household bills
• Five million Labour Leavers

You can find our breakdown and analysis of these figures here.

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The Liberal Democrats launched their 2019 election manifesto with the slogan: "Stop Brexit, Build A Brighter Future".

The full document, external runs to 96 pages and contained pledges on a variety of subjects, with Brexit and the NHS to the fore.

They included:

• Stop Brexit - Article 50 would be revoked immediately and Britain would be stopped from leaving the EU unless it was voted for in another referendum
• A penny income tax rise for the NHS to raise £7bn a year over five years - a total of £35bn - to spend on the NHS and social care
• Free childcare, with all children aged two to four qualifying for 35 hours a week, 48 weeks a year
• Generate 80% of electricity from renewables by 2030 to reduce carbon emissions
• Tax frequent flyers
• Recruit 20,000 more teachers in England
• Legalise cannabis to help to break the grip of the criminal gangs
• Freeze train fares to all peak-time and season tickets for the next parliament
• Give zero-hours workers a 20% rise
• Resettle 10,000 refugees a year. In the next 10 years, 10,000 more unaccompanied refugee children would also be allowed into the UK
• Tough borrowing rules and targeted tax rises
• Build 300,000 new homes a year in England

To find out more, read our simple guide to the Liberal Democrats.

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According to its leader, Nigel Farage, its 22-page document was not a manifesto but a "contract with the people".

That contract includes promises such as:

• No extension to the transition period for a "clean-break Brexit"
• No privatisation of the NHS
• Reduce annual immigration using a "fair points system" and a "crackdown" on illegal immigration
• Cut VAT on domestic fuel, with its package of tax cuts also includes a reduction in Corporation Tax
• Ban the UK exporting its waste
• Free broadband in deprived regions
• Scrap the licence fee
• To phase out the BBC licence fee, which is currently £154.50 a year for most people
• Abolish inheritance tax

Also, the party has said that it was to change its name to the Reform Party after the UK left the European Union to continue to campaign for changes to the voting system and the abolition of the House of Lords.

To find out what else the party says it will try to deliver, read the BBC's simple guide to the Brexit Party.

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On general election day, voting takes place between 07:00 and 22:00. The results are declared through the night and the following day.

When the overall result is known, the leader of the winning party, if there is one, visits Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen for permission to form a new government.

Once they have that, which is a formality, they return to the traditional home of the prime minister, 10 Downing Street.

Often they will stand outside to deliver a speech about their party's plans for the coming years.

You can find out more from our simple election guide here.

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The Labour Party launched its 2019 election manifesto with the slogan: "It's Time For Real Change".

The full document, external runs to 105 pages, but while we wait to see if those promises failed to grab the public's vote as the exit poll suggests, we look at some of what the party offered.

Pledges made included:

• Increasing the national health budget by 4.3% and also cutting private provision in the NHS
• Hold a second referendum on Brexit with the plan to renegotiate a new Brexit deal within three months, and hold a referendum on the deal or Remain within six months - it's been termed the "Final Say on Brexit"
• Raise minimum wage from £8.21 to £10 for anyone over the age of 25
• Stop state pension age rises - the pension age would remain at 66 while retirement ages for those in arduous and stressful jobs will be reviewed
• Introduce a National Care Service to provide "community-based, person-centred" support in England, including free personal care
• Bring forward net-zero target To put the UK on track for a net-zero carbon energy system within the 2030s
• Nationalise key industries, including: the so-called big six energy firms, National Grid, the water industry, Royal Mail, railways and the broadband arm of BT
• Scrap Universal Credit
• Abolish private schools' charitable status
• Free bus travel for under-25s
• Give EU nationals the right to remain. It will mean EU citizens in the UK no longer have to apply to continue living and working in the country
• Build 100,000 council homes a year in England

To find out more, read our simple guide to the Labour Party.

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A total of 3,322 candidates are standing across the 650 seats this year.

The candidate with the most votes in each constituency is elected, even if they are chosen by less than half the electorate in their seat.

Most MPs represent a political party but some stand for election as independent candidates.

Any party with more than half the MPs (326) in the Commons usually forms the government. Parties with well below 50% of the national vote can take power as a result of the UK's voting system.

If no party has a majority of MPs, the one with the most can form a coalition - or partnership - with one or more other parties to gain control.

The prime minister is not directly voted for by the public. He or she is chosen by the winning party's MPs and appointed by the Queen, who is duty bound to follow their advice.

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The Conservative Party launched its 2019 election manifesto with the slogan "Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain's Potential".

The full document, external runs to 59 pages, but what were the promises its authors hoped would grab the public's attention?

Some of the items included:

• Increasing the number of nurses by 50,000 - although this became a controversial policy after rows over the use of the terms "new nurses" and "more nurses". Reintroducing maintenance grants for nursing students is also planned.
• No income tax, VAT or National Insurance rises
• Pensions will rise by at least 2.5% per year and keep the so-called triple lock on the state pension
• No-one will sell their home to pay for care
• Reach net zero emissions by 2050
• Spend £6.3bn on 2.2 million disadvantaged homes
• Create 250,000 extra childcare places
• A new Manchester to Leeds rail line, as well as £2bn to fill potholes
• Launch a democracy commission to look into the constitutional power balance after the raising of concerns that the judiciary has been pulled too far into areas of political decision-making in recent years

To find out what else the party says it will try and deliver, read the BBC's simple guide to the Conservative Party.

Eleanor Parkinson
BBC Spotlight

Verifying has begun in Cornwall South East.

The Conservative candidate Sheryll Murray is looking confident - she had the biggest Conservative majority in Cornwall in the last election and the exit poll suggests she'll be returned.

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

The Conservative candidate for Exeter, John Gray, said it was too early to call the result but it would “overturn electoral history” to take the seat from Labour’s Ben Bradshaw.

Mr Gray said he had knocked on “door after door after door” where lifelong Labour voters told him they were voting Conservative in this election.

He said: “They don’t like Corbyn and they have voted leave and feel the party has abandoned them.”

According to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky News there is a 99% chance of a Labour hold.

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Cornwall

Verification is complete at the Truro and Falmouth count with the Conservatives confident and candidate Cherilyn Mackrory already there.

A Labour supporter has said their party has “done well but probably not well enough”.

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

“Some people here can barely walk, they’ve been out canvassing since six o’clock in the morning and now they’re here verifying votes.”

That’s Tudor Evans, Labour leader of Plymouth City Council, on the hard work put in by political activists from all sides over the last six weeks in the city.

“They are doing it because it matters to them,” he said at the count at the Plymouth Life Centre.

“People are cynical about politics but everyone who goes through this process believes in something and it's what drives them.

"This is politics in the raw here.”

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

Pantomime dame and independent candidate Daniel Page has arrived at the Exeter count.

However, it looks like the dame will not be moving onto the political stage with exit poll showing a Labour hold for the constituency.

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Detailed proposals for everything from the economy to defence and policing are set out before any general election in manifestos.

These come from the UK's political parties - groups of people with similar political beliefs who come together to try to win power.

The issues UK voters care most about have changed a lot, according to the polls.

The National Health Service (NHS) and immigration were the things that most concerned voters in 2015.

The European Union (EU) was of far less interest.

Now, however, Brexit - the UK's departure from the EU - has been a huge issue since the referendum of 2016, as you can see from the graph above.

You can find out more from our simple election guide here.