18 seats contested; 12 in Devon and six in Cornwall
Conservatives hold seats in 16 areas
Labour's Ben Bradshaw retains his Exeter seat, but polled 4,500 fewer votes than in 2017
Labour's Luke Pollard keeps his Plymouth Sutton and Devonport seat, but polls 1,800 fewer votes than in 2017
Sitting Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston lost her seat after leaving the Tories
James Vickery
BBC Radio Devon
Liz Pole, the Labour candidate for Tiverton and Honiton, can’t watch as the Conservatives gain Blyth Valley from Labour.
This is the first time the area has had a Tory MP and not a Labour one.
Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online
There’s a huge task ahead as the counts take place for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Plymouth Moor View and South West Devon at Plymouth Life Centre.
At the last election there were more than 150,000 ballot papers from all three seats - that’s the task facing hundreds of ballot counters.
The total number of votes cast today won’t be known until later.
John Henderson
BBC Spotlight
Chris Quevatre
BBC News Online
BBC exit polls are predicting a win for Independent Claire Wright in East Devon.
The Conservative party has held the seat for more than 150 years, but that run is looking likely to change tonight.
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Vic Morgan
BBC Radio Devon
Chris Whipp
Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online
As the ballot boxes arrive at the counts throughout the South West, estimations for when results will be in are also being predicted:
Chris Quevatre
BBC News Online
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Six wheelie bins full of votes. Not what you asked for? Well that's what you get in Newton Abbot.
Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online
Student votes have been seen as potential game-changers in some seats at the general election, but were they intending to vote?
We asked students at the University of Plymouth if they had registered to vote on 12 December.
Their views were mixed but those who said they would vote felt it was crucial to make their mark.
'It's crucial to vote' say students
BBC Politics
When the UK goes to the polls, how much difference does where people live make on how likely they are to vote?
And how would it influence who they vote for?
Are people in cities less likely to vote?
In the 2017 general election, 67% of voters in large towns or cities went to the ballot box. But Exeter (pictured) was well above that, with the fifth-highest level in the country at 72%.
Where else has had the highest and lowest turnouts? Find out here.
Chris Quevatre
BBC News Online
This is the first General Election since 1923 to be held in December.
Hopefully these mince pies and chocolates at the count in Tiverton were bought more recently than that...
Candidates across the South West will be busy checking their phones throughout the night for updates.
Ann Widdecombe, the Brexit Party candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport and South West MEP, is pictured deep in conversation as the ballot boxes come in.
Lucie Fisher
BBC Spotlight
The ballot boxes are arriving at Carn Brea for the Camborne and Redruth count.
Half of the count in North Devon is in darkness after someone turned off the wrong switch!
The lights were back on after about half an hour.
BBC Politics
The UK's main parties have been gearing up for the general election for weeks after it was announced.
These national votes, to choose a government to run the country, are supposed to be held every five years, but this is the third since 2015.
And people have had questions:
If you want answers to any of these questions, find out more from the BBC website's simple guide.
Miles Davis
BBC News Online
Despite the council signs there’s a distinctly theatrical feel to the election count in Exeter.
Counting has begun at the city’s Corn Exchange venue where the Snow White pantomime has made way for a political performance.
The pantomime dame Daniel Page is standing as an independent candidate and is expected to make an appearance later.
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online
Storm force winds combined with one of the lowest tides of the month was raising concerns that results in one of the most marginal seats in the country could be delayed.
The Isles of Scilly off Cornwall form part of the St Ives constituency and votes cannot be counted until the papers have been collected by boat from all the islands that have polling.
But there are concerns ballot papers cannot be brought to the largest island, St Mary's, because there may not be enough water for boats to access the islands of Bryher and Tresco.
The islands have an electorate of 1,660 and the seat was settled by 312 votes in 2017, when the Conservatives won.
You can find out more here.
Image source, Gareth Tibbs
Louise Walter
BBC Spotlight
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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.
Labour would get 191, the Lib Dems 13, the Brexit Party none and the SNP 55.
The Green Party will still have one MP and Plaid Cymru will lose one seat for a total of three, the survey suggests.
