Former Labour minister Chris Leslie, who is standing as an Independent Group for Change candidate in Nottingham East, called for Mr Corbyn to quit.
He told PA news agency: "He should never have been elected in the first place. As some of us were warning from the outset, the hard left self-indulgence was always doomed to fail."
Image source, PA Media
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
The turnout figures for the rest of Leicester are also lower than the summer of 2017.
In Leicester East 63.34% of people took to the polls.
The percentage for Leicester South was slightly higher at 64.78% but that's still down on the previous 66.94%.
Simon Ward
East Midlands Today Reporter
Labour's candidate for Mid Derbyshire Emma Monkman looks unhappy.
She won’t comment and claims not to have seen the exit poll, which has predicted a 99% likelihood of a Conservative win in the constituency.
Alex Regan
BBC News
In the Midlands, exit polls suggest that Labour will have a bad night, with Bassetlaw expected to fall to the Tories for the first time sine 1935.
Meanwhile, Gedling is predicted as too close to call, it has been held by Labour's Vernon Coaker since 1997.
Deputy leader of the borough council Michael Payne has said he is worried for Mr Coaker, and believes Jeremy Corbyn should reflect on the evening's performance.
"If Vernon loses tonight, and I hope he doesn't, mark my words that would be down to the poor leadership of the Labour Party at a national level, and it would be down to Brexit.
"If we fail tonight the leader has to reflect on that."
Alex Regan
BBC News
The Labour leader in Bassetlaw District Council Simon Greaves says the exit poll indicates that his party could face "the worst election we've ever seen for Labour in Bassetlaw".
The seat had previously been held by Labour's John Mann, who retired as an MP to take a seat in the House of Lords, and was critical of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership on dealing with anti-Semitism in the party.
The BBC predicts that Bassetlaw has a 99% chance becoming a Tory gain for the first time since 1935.
Mr Greaves said: "There has been a lot of work done on the ground by local activists, and I think that if things transpire in the way they are projected then the national party have got some serious thinking to do."
Tony Roe
BBC East Midlands political editor
The former Labour MP for Leicester West has reacted to the likely "devastating" result for Labour.
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"If we delude ourselves into thinking this was about Brexit..." - was it the manifesto then or the leadership if not Brexit...or both...or a combination of the three?
Chris Doidge
BBC Radio Derby, political reporter
Turnout in High Peak about the same as last time (73%).
Down very slightly in South Derbyshire (68%) and Amber Valley (65%).
Hugh Casswell
Political reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
We've seen Mansfield candidate Ben Bradley in his blue festive garb, well the Lib Dems can also play that game.
Ashfield parliamentary candidate Rebecca Wain has put on her own festive jumper, with it being National Christmas Jumper Day.
Tim Parker
BBC Radio Leicester reporter
In Leicester West, a constituency known for having a poor turnout in the region, just 53.78% of voters went to the polls yesterday.
That's down from 58.05% in 2017.
Could it be down to the weather? Maybe it's political frustration? Either way, nearly half of voters are not voting in Leicester West.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
It looks like some Christmas cheer is needed in North West Leicestershire.
This is the extent of their festivities.
Jo Bostock
Journalist, BBC Radio Leicester
Counting has begun at the Hermitage Leisure Centre in Whitwick.
The returning officer for the North West Leicestershire count has said the overall turnout was 69% with 54,044 votes cast.
That's down on the 2017 general election where turnout was 71%.
The former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen is still smiling and the atmosphere here is very relaxed.
Gavin Bevis
BBC News
The timing of this snap election has led to the slightly incongruous juxtaposition of critical votes being counted amid a merry backdrop of festive decorations.
These pics show counts in Buxton, Ashfield, Worksop and Derby.
Image source, Derby City CouncilAmy Woodfield
BBC News
Still smiling, engineering company director Dan Liddicott waits for news at the North West Leicestershire count as he bids to achieve an election landmark for the fledgling Libertarian Party.
If he takes more than a 0.4% share of the vote (and greater than 213 votes) he will out-poll the current record holder for the movement.
"All I want is 0.5% to take the title," he said.
Five Libertarian candidates are standing at the 2019 election, the others being in Chicester, Stroud, Sevenoaks and Crewe & Nantwich.
Jo Hollis
Reporter, BBC Radio Leicester
Queenie Tea has arrived here in Loughborough - minus her tea trolley.
The independent candidate in the Loughborough constituency said: “I was told I wasn’t allowed to bring it, which is a bit of a shame really because I had lots of lovely biscuits for everyone.”
Undeterred she has gaffer taped a pack of chocolate digestives to her handbag.
She’s hoping no one voted for her, and she didn’t vote for herself.
“I didn’t vote because as a piece of art I don’t exist, I’m not on the electoral roll.
“I hope I get zero, a vote for me would be a wasted vote really but I realise people might have done it out of sheer frustration.”
Steve Beech
Reporter, BBC Radio Nottingham
Broxtowe was thought to be one of the big battle ground seats for independents in this election.
Former Conservative MP Anna Soubry represented the constituency for nine years, before becoming an independent in February 2019.
But the BBC's exit poll predicts there is a 97% chance the Conservatives will regain the seat.
A Tory campaigner at the Broxtowe count told me he thinks Anna Soubry will lose her deposit, meaning she will get less than 5% of the vote.
Quentin Rayner
East Midlands Today chief news reporter
I'm at the Leicester count where all the city’s polling stations have delivered their ballot boxes bar one.
Amy Woodfield
BBC News
Alberto Costa, who has been the Leicestershire South MP since 2015, said he's "very cautiously optimistic" about the upcoming election result.
Image source, UK ParliamentHe said: "The British people had to make up their mind - did they want a Conservative majority government, that could get Brexit done and allow the country to calm down and move forward, or was it going to be another hung parliament."
If the exit poll prediction is correct he said it will allow the leavers and remainers to be "brought back together".
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BBC News
Former Conservative and prominent remainer Anna Soubry has criticised both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party for tonight's potential Conservative victory.
On Twitter she wrote: "Just to remind everyone. This election was called by the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats fuelled by tribalism and Kool-Aid when a People's Vote was within our grasp."
Image source, UK ParliamentShe is standing as an independent in Broxtowe, BBC political reporter Hugh Caswall said it was a "top Labour target in Nottinghamshire".
BBC Radio Derby
Nigel Mills, the Conservative candidate for Amber Valley in Derbyshire, is nursing a bandage on his finger after being bitten by a dog while out canvasing on Monday.
It's not known who the dog's owner was planning to vote for.
