Peter Henley
Political editor, South of England

Here in Southampton Labour are all smiles - they think they have substantially increased the majority for Alan Whitehead in Southampton Test - perhaps past 10,000 (from 3,600 in 2015).

Neil Sackley
Reporter, BBC Radio Solent

Counting underway at Applemore Leisure Centre in Hythe for the New Forest East and West constituencies.

Toby Wadey
BBC South

Turnout in Newbury is up 1.5% points on 2015 to 73.6%.

The seat is considered a Conservative stronghold, with Richard Benyon winning with a 23,368 majority in 2015.

BBC Radio Berkshire's Tim Dellor has been keeping an eye on proceeding at Newbury Racecourse and sent us this snap from behind the scenes.

Hopefully those pastries will keep everyone going until 03:30, when we expect the result to come in.

Linda Serck
BBC South

As an experienced BBC journalist, I never thought I'd find myself interviewing a man with a huge black cylinder on his head.

But the news line is this: Lord Buckethead has been put on this earth to stand against Theresa May in her own Maidenhead constituency tonight – oh, and to bring back Ceefax. And I mean 'put on this earth' quite literally, as he claims to be from Hyperspace.

Talking like a well-to-do robotic alien, the Lord claims his spaceship is cloaked and parked in Maidenhead.

And before you ask, he is actually entitled to run as a candidate despite not hailing from planet earth.

His policies include "the abolition of the Lords, except me", "full facial covering must be kept legal, especially bucket-related head gear”, and "Ceefax must be brought back immediately", with "the Oracle and other teletext services to be rolled out by 2022."

On Brexit there should be a referendum about whether there should be a second referendum, and he would replace the idea of grammar schools with "gamma schools", with a firm commitment to boot any persistently naughty pupils into outer space.

I ask him his age in earth years, and after confessing that maths isn't his strong point, he calculates he must be about "9008-years-old".

Image source, Lord Buckethead

While all this may get him more laughs than votes, he is far from being a casual joker who happens to have a spare £500 for a candidate's deposit. Lord Buckethead has in fact stood against two previous prime ministers: Margaret Thatcher in 1987 in Finchley and John Major in 1992 in Huntingdonshire.

Now it's Theresa May's turn. Lucky her.

Image source, Lord Buckethead

Labour Party activist Hannah is at the Oxford East election count and gave us her reaction to the shock exit poll result.

She said the party had fought "unsurpassable odds" and "done huge things".

"We've worked really hard and got what we are fighting for," she added.

Fern Balch
BBC Radio Solent reporter

Counting has officially started in Hampshire East.

Conservative Damian Hinds won the seat last time round with more than 60% share of the vote.

BBC reporter Jordan Clark is at the Christchurch constituency count at Two Riversmeet Leisure Centre.

The area is a Tory stronghold.

This year's candidates are:

• Labour - Patrick Canavan
• Conservative - Christopher Chope
• Liberal Democrat - Michael Cox
• Green Party - Chris Rigby

BBC Radio Oxford

BBC Oxford's Sophie Law is at the count in David Cameron's former Witney constituency in Oxfordshire, and has spotted a "fist bump" between two Lib Dems watching votes being counted.

Witney used to be considered one of the country's safest seats, but after the Tory leader stepped down his replacement Robert Courts was elected with a much reduced majority.

Sophie said: "The feeling has been that the Lib Dems are in a strong place at the moment and this could be the year they do it."

Toby Wadey
BBC South

Our reporter Nick Johnson says Reading could be "the big local story of the evening".

If the exit poll is to believed, Conservative Alok Sharma in Reading West (majority of 6,650 in 2015) and fellow Tory Rob Wilson in Reading East (majority of 6,520 in 2015) could both be ousted by Labour.

James Ingham
BBC South Today

The turnout on the Isle of Wight is 67.3% - that's 3% higher than in the 2015 election.

The previous Conservative MP Andrew Turner withdrew shortly after the election was called when he told school pupils homosexuality was "wrong" and a "danger to society".

Bob Seeley is hoping to retain the seat for the Conservatives while the Greens have it marked as a key target seat.

Rahil Sheikh
BBC News Oxford

The candidates for the Dorset North constituency are:

• Conservative - Simon Hoare
• Labour - Pat Osborne
• Liberal Democrat - Thomas Panton
• Green Party - John Tutton

The area is currently held by the Tories and Mr Hoare is the current MP.

He won the seat at the last election with a 56.6% share of the votes.

This year's ballot papers are being counted at Blandford School.