Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Labour's defeated candidate in Loughborough tweets...

Jewel Miah finished second, 4,000 votes behind Nicky Morgan.

Martyn Williams
Reporter, BBC Radio Derby

I've been out asking people in Derby whether they felt a hung Parliament would harm Brexit negotiations. Here's what they said.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has been reflecting on the reasons why voters chose him to continue as their MP in Leicester South...

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

Conservative Lee Rowley has been reflecting on winning the Derbyshire North East seat with a majority of 2,861.

"I think we ran a very strong, positive local campaign," he said.

"We pointed out all the things we're doing both as a potential Conservative MP and as Conservative councillors to change the area.

"Also I think the national messages have resonated in this particular part of the world and I'm determined to go to Westminster to fight on behalf of local residents to make sure the things they have voted for today get done."

Facebook

Plenty of reaction on Facebook to Mansfield turning blue after 94 years of Labour rule.

Rhia Williams wrote: "Mining town can't remember Thatcher apparently."

Graeme Peel responded: "Despite the fact that labour closed more mines than Thatcher ever did!"

Join the debate here, external.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Nottingham voters ponder the election result and consider whether we'll be heading back to the ballot box soon...

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

Scott Knowles, chief executive at East Midlands Chamber, said a hung Parliament was not good news for industry in the region.

He said: "Business in the East Midlands has been doing its best to carry on doing what it does so well – creating jobs and wealth - despite the upheaval arising from two General Elections and the EU Referendum in the past two years and the impact they have had on confidence and markets.

“But this morning’s news that we are to have a hung Parliament, yet more uncertainty and a weakened position for negotiating Brexit, will leave many wondering what comes next.

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“Business can’t continue to grapple with currency fluctuations, rising costs and the potential impacts of Brexit.

"The business community needs political stability, which has been sadly missing over the past two years, so that it can continue to invest with confidence in innovation, research and development, staff, training, property and plant.

"This result will prove much harder for UK businesses to ignore.

“The swift formation of a workable administration that can restore business confidence, particularly with Brexit negotiations due to formally start in just ten days, must be the immediate priority.”

East Midlands Today

Despite winning 56 fewer seats so far than the Conservatives, Labour's Jon Ashworth believes his party has more to cheer about.

"The real party coming out of this election with problems is the Conservative party," the Leicester South MP told BBC East Midlands Today's election special.

"You'll have seen Anna Soubry on the national media really sticking the boot into Theresa May.

"Her [Theresa May's] position is completely untenable."

Derby Telegraph

A better deal for Derby, external is the top of the priority list for newly-elected Derby North MP Chris Williamson.

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

The defeated Labour candidate for Mansfield told the BBC the prime minister had "failed abjectly" and would not be prime minister for much longer.

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

Here's the awkward moment Labour's Alan Meale was wrongly declared the winning candidate in Mansfield.

In fact Conservative Ben Bradley had claimed the seat with a majority of 1,057.

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

Labour's Margaret Beckett, who retained Derby South with a majority of 11,248, said the Conservatives only had themselves to blame for their current predicament.

"It was the arrogance of the decision and the way the decision was made," she said.

"And then the way the whole campaign was conducted, as if the electorate could be taken for granted."

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

The power cut at the count at Aylestone Leisure Centre in Leicester features in BBC News's round-up of memorable election night pictures.

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Nicky Morgan has just been speaking to BBC Radio Leicester about what the future may hold for the Conservatives.

Asked if she would consider running for the leadership if Theresa May decided to step down, she replied: "No, I'm not thinking about that at all."

She added that she thinks any leadership challenge is "highly unlikely."

Jonathan Josephs
BBC News

The defeated Conservative candidate in Bolsover, Helen Harrison, told the BBC: "The national campaign was rather lacklustre and I don't think there was much for people to get very enthusiastic about".

This was despite her more than halving Dennis Skinner's Labour majority to its smallest ever of 5,288 - the first time it's been below 10,000.

She said: "It was difficult to really kind of get hold of it [the campaign] and to understand what it was all about really, other than we needed a strong and stable government.

"I guess the party is going to be unpicking this campaign for a long time".

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Nicky Morgan, who retained her seat for the Conservatives in Loughborough, has said the country now faces "great challenges."

Image source, DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images

"What this election shows is that there are still divisions across this country that have not been healed by this election result," Ms Morgan said.

"It is now up to politicians from all parties to work out how we heal those divisions and make the best of the future... and solve the great challenges ahead."

Corbyn supporter Chris Williamson wins Derby North, vowing "to deliver the sunshine of socialism".

Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter

Lots of good suggestions as to why High Peak went Labour after being overwhelmingly Tory in the county council elections last month.

They include low turnout, millennial voters, poor Conservative campaign, large number of commuters.

There were 33,000 votes in High Peak in the county council elections and 54,000 in the general election last night. Many of them young people?

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Amanda Ball, a lecturer in media law at Nottingham Trent University, has questioned whether the Conservatives got their campaign tactics right.

She said: "As the election campaign went on it was clear that Theresa May really wasn't kind of having the traction she'd started with.

"Close to the election, they decided that wasn't going to swing votes to the Conservative way and the best way to swing votes the Conservative way was actually by frightening people about a Labour victory."

Calum McKenzie
BBC Local Live

Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry, who has been critical of Theresa May and the campaign that the Conservatives ran, has continued to go on the attack.

Image source, Getty Images

"I can only apologise," Ms Soubry told BBC Radio 4.

"What should have been certainty today and a good majority... that certainty is now no overall control.

"[We have] more confusion and a country that is even more divided."