Conservative John Howell, who retained the Henley seat with a reduced majority over Labour, has denied claims that his party took the electorate for granted.

"The idea that we were going to get a landslide majority was just utter nonsense from the beginning," he said, before admitting: "The Conservative party has not done as well as it expected."

Labour came second "for the first time in many years" in Dorset North.

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BBC South

Two Conservative MPs to hold onto their seats, rather comfortably it must be said, were Wokingham MP John Redwood and the MP for Bracknell, Phillip Lee.

Mr Lee received an extra 3,000 votes to retain his place in Parliament, while former Welsh Secretary Mr Redwood won his seat for the eighth time, winning an extra 1,477 seats despite winning a slightly smaller proportion of the vote.

"The country has said they want a Conservative government, run by Mrs May, because we are the biggest party", Mr Redwood said while speaking to the BBC's Andrew Neil.

Cue a quick retort from the presenter: "No they didn't".

That exchange, incidentally, has picked up quite a lot of traction on social media.

"I wouldn't be as upbeat as John", said Mr Lee "the idea we should not change our approach off the back of this is ludicrous".

"There were lots of very unhappy Conservative remain voters, and there were lots of young people turning up at voting stations in my patch".

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The candidate gets 249 votes, a "new Buckethead record", standing against Theresa May in Maidenhead.

Armed police have carried out a warrant at an address in Three Fields Road, Oxford in connection with the ongoing Christopher Lemonius murder investigation.

Thames Valley Police said officers executed a warrant this morning at 06:00 BST.

The force said no arrests were made.

Christopher Lemonius, 27, died after a fight on 1 June in the Jourdain Road area of Blackbird Leys.

He was found at the scene with serious injuries and later died in hospital.

Four men and a boy appeared in court charged with his murder earlier this week.

Conservative Victoria Prentis, who kept her seat in Banbury, told the BBC one of her main priorities will be to save the Horton Hospital.

She said: "The Horton is something that I personally have been involved in trying to save for the last 38 years, and I’m 46 so work that out.

"It is something we in this area… feel enormously strongly about."

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Theresa May will visit Buckingham Palace at 12:30 BST to seek permission to form a UK government, despite losing her Commons majority.

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BBC South Today

The Conservatives retain the Isle of Wight, but Labour grab their biggest share of the vote on the island in decades.

The vote yields a hung parliament in a shock setback for PM Theresa May as Labour urges her to quit.

Here's a round-up of the key election results in the South of England overnight...

Conservative Royston Smith had a narrow win in Southampton Itchen. He won the seat, beating Labour's Simon Letts by 31 votes.

He admitted it had "not been a great night" for the Conservatives nationally.

Labour has never been second in the Dorset North constituency.

Simon Hoare won the seat with 36,169 votes. Labour's Pat Osborne received 10,392 votes.

Alan Whitehead celebrated increasing his majority in Southampton Test to more than 11,000 - the seat was a Tory target with Prime Minister Theresa May visiting twice during the campaign.

Despite having resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet last year, he praised the Labour leader's campaign.

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