Summary

  • General election ends in a hung Parliament

  • Theresa May says she will form a government with the support of the DUP

  • Labour take back Gower, Cardiff North and Vale of Clwyd from the Conservatives

  • Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones calls it "the most remarkable turnaround I have seen in politics"

  • Liberal Democrats left without a Welsh MP for the first time since 1859

  • Turnout was 68.5% - up 2.9% on 2015

  • In Wales, Labour won 28 seats, Conservatives eight and Plaid Cymru four

Live Reporting

Sophie Gidley, Nicola Bryan and Ben Frampton

  1. On your marks....

    Last minute preparations as the counts begin across Wales

    BBC Wales' James Williams is one of our many reporters preparing for a long night.

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  2. Benchmarks

    1. Conservatives

    The Conservatives’ 2015 general election performance was their best in Wales since 1983. They won 11 seats and 27.2% of the vote.

    Graph showing Conservative vote share in Wales since 1922

    The party hoped it could improve on that, and there were visits by Theresa May to Bridgend, Wrexham and Clwyd South.

    Nye Davies from Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre says the Conservatives’ campaign in Wales focussed on the choice between Mrs May and Jeremy Corbyn for PM, rather than the party’s Welsh candidates in the belief that this gave them their best shot of turning the map of Wales blue.

    BBC Wales Political Editor Nick Servini says that if the exit poll is correct the decision to call an election 'will not have worked out' for Theresa May.

  3. Exit poll

    The exit poll carried out on behalf of the BBC, ITV and Sky is forecasting the Conservatives will be the largest party.

    graphics showing Theresa May

    The detailed seat numbers are projected to be as follows:

    detail seat projection

  4. Hello and welcome

    The polls will close in minutes

    Hello and welcome to the BBC Wales live page for the 2017 general election.

    Voting ends at 22:00 BST and we'll bring you live coverage from counting centres across the country and a full results service for all 40 Welsh constituencies overnight and tomorrow.

    Jac Larner from the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University is here to provide analysis throughout. Stay with us.

    sketch of polling station signDan Peterson

    BBC Wales' My Manifesto artist Dan Peterson's been sketching for us during the campaign - he's out and about tonight too