Emma Lewell-Buck has been re-elected as the MP for South Shields, with a decreased majority.

The Labour candidate beat Conservative Oni Oviri by 9,585 votes, 4,923 votes less than the majority at the 2017 election.

Glenn Thompson of the Brexit Party came third and independent candidate Geoff Thompson came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 3.9 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 38,000 people, 60.3% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Two of the six candidates, William Shepherd (Liberal Democrat) and Sarah McKeown (Green) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has been re-elected as the MP for Wansbeck, with a decreased majority.

The Labour candidate beat Conservative Jack Gebhard by 814 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.

He has been the MP for Wansbeck since the 2010 general election.

Eden Webley of the Brexit Party came third and Liberal Democrat Stephen Psallidas came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 4.4 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 41,000 people, 64% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Two of the six candidates, Steve Leyland (Green) and Michael Flynn (Christian Peoples Alliance) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Labour's Mike Hill has kept his Hartlepool seat in the face of a spirited challenge from the Conservatives and the Brexit Party.

Peter Gibson has been elected as the MP for Darlington, beating Labour's Jenny Chapman by 3,294 votes.

The Conservative Party overturned a 3,280 vote majority to take the formerly Labour-held seat.

Anne-Marie Curry of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Brexit Party's Dave Mawson came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 2 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 43,000 people, roughly two-thirds of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Four of the six candidates, Anne-Marie Curry (Liberal Democrat), Dave Mawson (The Brexit Party), Matthew Snedker (Green) and Monty Brack (independent) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Liz Twist keeps her Labour seat:

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Alex Cunningham, newly elected Labour MP for Stockton North, calls for Jeremy Corbyn to resign.

Sharon Hodgson has been re-elected as the MP for Washington & Sunderland West, with a significantly decreased majority.

The Labour candidate beat Conservative Valerie Allen by 3,723 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.

Howard Brown of the Brexit Party came third and Liberal Democrat Carlton West came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 3.7 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 38,000 people, 56.6% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Two of the six candidates, Michal Chantkowski (Green) and Keith Jenkins (UKIP) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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This is becoming a bit of a theme - Labour have held on to one of their core seats in Tynemouth, but again have seen their majority slashed.

Alan Campbell went from a majority of 11,666 in 2017 to just 4,857 today.

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Alex Cunningham holds Stockton North for Labour but his majority of over 8,000 two years ago cut to just over a thousand.

Alex Cunningham says his victory is “bitter sweet” and he “fears for his country”.

Kate Osborne has been elected MP for Jarrow, meaning that the Labour Party holds the seat with a decreased majority.

The new MP beat Conservative Nick Oliver by 7,120 votes. This was less than half Stephen Hepburn’s 17,263 vote majority in the 2017 general election.

Richard Monaghan of the Brexit Party came third and independent candidate John Robertson came fourth.

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Voter turnout was down by 3.8 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 41,000 people, 62.6% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Three of the eight candidates, James Milne (Green), Shaun Sadler (independent) and Mark Conway (Social Democratic Party) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice arrives at the count in Hartlepool.

He is bidding to become the party's first MP. The bookmakers think he will not make it.

Labour's Ian Mearns has been re-elected as the MP for Gateshead, with a decreased majority.

Mr Mearns, who has held the seat since 2010, beat Conservative candidate Jane MacBean by 7,200 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.

Peter Maughan of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Rachel Cabral came fourth.

Reflecting on the projected national result, Mr Mearns told the BBC: "It’s very bad news for the Labour Party, the country and particularly bad news for the North East if exit poll is as accurate as it was in 2017."

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Voter turnout in Gateshead was down by 5.4 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 38,000 people, 59.2% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

One of the four candidates, Rachel Cabral (Green) lost her £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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Political Editor, BBC Look North

It is becoming crystal clear that Labour have had a catastrophic night in the North East of England.

The Conservatives are winning in places they've never won before, and in places even they probably didn't expect to win.

The party threw its resources into its top targets - Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton South. Darlington is already in the bag, the other two will surely fall.

What's remarkable though is the Tory performance in other seats. The party deliberately didn't divert too much effort into the next tier of potential targets. Yet some are falling, and some have become highly marginal.

Wansbeck - the location of the last mine to close in the North East - came close to falling. Ian Levy became the first Conservative MP to be elected in another former mining seat - Blyth Valley.

And now Wansbeck, Redcar and North West Durham are in peril. The tectonic plates are shifting.

Is this a long term shift? Or are Labour voters lending Boris Johnson their votes to get Brexit over the line?

Either way, the North East is going to play a key role in tonight's Tory victory.

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BBC political reporter

Jenny Chapman, the losing Labour candidate in Darlington, says the Labour Party has serious questions to answer

Jarrow, previously held by Labour's Stephen Hepburn, has been held by the party's candidate Kate Osborne.

But again the majority has been cut, from 17,263 in 2017 to 7,120 today.

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Labour's Anna Turley, fighting to retain her Redcar seat, says: "It could go either way."

Pessimistic or realistic?

The Conservative candidate Peter Gibson has dramatically taken the Darlington seat from Labour's Jenny Chapman.

Labour's shadow Brexit spokesperson had been the MP for the town since 2010.

Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has held the Wansbeck seat but with a vastly reduced majority.

In the 2017 election he had a majority of 10,435, but that has been crushed to just 814.

ITV is reporting Redcar has gone to the Conservatives: