Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are waiting on the full election results after the exit poll put Labour on course for an historic super-majority.
The exit poll places Labour at a massive 410-seat majority with the Conservatives reduced to just 131, which would be the party’s worst ever result.
But it is just a projection and the final proof will only come when all ballots are counted.
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Results from the general election will begin to trickle in from around 11.30pm tonight after polling stations close at 10pm.
Most of the constituency results are expected in the early hours of tomorrow, as hundreds are announced across the country, with the final seats projected to announce their winning candidates by 6.30am.
In 2019, the first declaration came at 11.27pm when Newcastle City Council beat local rival Sunderland to announce Chi Onwurah, Labour’s candidate, as the first MP of the new parliament.
The record for the earliest declaration remains 10.43pm by the former seat of Sunderland South in 2001.
All eyes will be on Richmond and Northallerton at around 4am when Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, will find out whether he has kept his seat, amid some predictions that he could be ousted by his constituents in what would be a historic defeat for an incumbent of Downing Street.
The result in Holborn and St Pancras, the constituency of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, is expected 15 minutes later.
A host of top Tories will learn throughout the night whether they have won re-election, including Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg (around 4.30am), Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary (around 3.30am) and Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor (around 3.30am). Mr Hunt has predicted there will be fewer than 1,500 votes between him and the Liberal Democrat hopeful.
Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, will learn at around 4am whether he has succeeded in his eighth attempt to win a seat in the Commons.
An hour earlier, Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, is set to find out whether he will beat his old party and retain his seat in Islington North, where he is standing as an independent candidate.
It’s exit poll o’clock at 10pm, as a nationwide projection offers a unique window on the outcome.
The 10pm ballot has an impressive track record and gives a pretty good indication of what the final result will be.
Blyth and Ashington, a new constituency where veteran Labour MP Ian Lavery is seeking re-election, is expected to be the first constituency to declare at this election, with an estimated time of 11.30pm. Shortly after will be the seat of Houghton and Sunderland South, represented for the past 14 years by shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson. The outcome here, where Ms Phillipson is defending a majority of 3,271, may provide a guide as to what to expect in seats where Labour has small majorities, in particular how Reform UK performs.
There is the potential for an early shock as Richard Holden, the Conservative Party chairman, finds out whether he has done enough to win his new seat of Basildon and Billericay. Mr Holden was selected as the Tory candidate for what has traditionally been a safe seat in a one-man shortlist, prompting local activists to brand the process a “stitch-up”. Sir Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary, is also at risk of losing Swindon South to Labour’s Heidi Alexander, who needs a 5.7 percentage point swing to clinch the seat.
The first results from Scotland will provide an early indication as to how the SNP may fare following a difficult couple of years for the Scottish nationalist party, which has seen it change First Minister twice and tank in the polls. A direct swing in the share of the vote of 10 percentage points from the SNP to Labour in Scotland could see Sir Keir Starmer’s party pick up 15 constituencies.
Declarations will start to come in thick and fast at this point. Seats up for grabs include North West Essex which is currently represented by Kemi Badenoch, the Business Secretary and the bookmakers’ favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Tory leader.
The results in Burnley, which returned a Conservative MP for the first time in 109 years in 2019, and Redcar, which elected its first ever Tory last time out, will provide an indication of how Mr Sunak’s party is faring in the ‘Red Wall’ seats that were so crucial to Boris Johnson’s triumph.
Another constituency to watch is Rochdale, where Workers’ Party candidate George Galloway shocked Westminster by winning a by-election in February with a campaign heavily focused on Gaza. Labour, however, is hopeful that it can win the seat back.
The excitement will really ramp up at this point, with no fewer than 241 declarations expected across almost four in 10 constituencies and there is plenty to watch out for.
A host of Tory ‘big beasts’ will find out whether they have done enough to keep their seats including Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, who is standing in the new constituency of Godalming and Ash. He faces a challenge from the Liberal Democrats
Cabinet ministers Gillian Keegan, Claire Coutinho, Alex Chalk, Simon Hart and Penny Mordaunt will also find out whether they have done enough to win re-election. Ms Mordaunt, the Leader of the Commons, is touted as a potential future Tory leader but faces a tight battle in her Portsmouth North constituency.
Other top Tories whose results we can expect around this time include Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader, and Robert Jenrick, a former immigration minister.
While Labour is projected to perform well nationally, its shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire faces a tense moment as the Greens seek to deliver an upset in her Bristol Central constituency.
Speaking of upsets, Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, will find out how he has fared against his old party as he stands as an independent in Islington North. And Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, will learn how he has performed in Kingston and Surbiton.
03:15: Bristol Central, Caerfyrddin, Eltham and Chislehurst, Erith and Thamesmead, Gosport, Hayes and Harlington
Kingston and Surbiton, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, Northumberland North, Renfrewshire East, Scunthorpe, Stroud, Witney
Could we be in for the mother of all political upsets? In this next hour, the result for Rishi Sunak’s Richmond and Northallerton constituency is expected. A shock constituency-level poll for The Telegraph suggested he could become the first ever sitting Prime Minister to lose their seat at a general election, so all eyes will be on the count.
Fifteen minutes later, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, will find out how he has fared in Holborn and St Pancras, although his re-election in a safe Labour seat is expected to be more of a formality.
The surge of Reform UK has been one of the major stories of this election. Party leader Nigel Farage will hope he has won a seat in the Commons at the eighth time of trying as the result comes in for Clacton, while Richard Tice, the Reform chairman, is hoping to unseat former Tory minister Matt Warman by the seaside in Boston and Skegness.
Reform’s only current MP is Lee Anderson, a former deputy Tory chairman who crossed the floor in March following his suspension. He is hoping the former mining town of Ashfield, which traditionally opted for Labour but went Tory in 2019, will stick with him after his change of allegiances, as many Labour-turned-Tory voters now consider Reform.
Shabana Mahmood and Jess Phillips, two Labour MPs in Birmingham, have faced a backlash from their voters over the party’s stance on Gaza, and the results in those constituencies will reveal how independent pro-Palestinian candidates have fared.
How the Liberal Democrats have fared will be increasingly obvious from the results in North East Somerset and Hanham, currently held by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Surrey Heath, which was Michael Gove’s seat before the Housing Secretary stood down shortly after Mr Sunak called the election.
04:00: Aberafan Maesteg, Altrincham and Sale West, Aylesbury, Ayrshire Central, Barking, Barrow and Furness, South Basildon and East Thurrock, Basingstoke, Bassetlaw, Bath, Bathgate and Linlithgow, Beckenham and Penge, North Bedfordshire, Bermondsey and Old Southwark, Beverley and Holderness, Birkenhead, Birmingham Ladywood, Birmingham Northfield, Bishop Auckland, Blackpool North and Fleetwood, Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, Blaydon and Consett, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Boston and Skegness, Braintree, Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe, Bridgend, Bridlington and the Wolds, Brigg and Immingham, Broadland and Fakenham, Buckinghamshire Mid, Bury South, Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire, Cardiff East, Cardiff South and Penarth, Central Devon, Ceredigion Preseli
Chelmsford, Chester South and Eddisbury, Chippenham, Clacton, Clwyd East, North Cotswolds, South Cotswolds, Dagenham and Rainham, Dartford, Devon North, Dunfermline and Dollar, East Grinstead and Uckfield, Eastbourne, Falkirk, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Foyle, Glasgow North East, Glasgow South, Glastonbury and Somerton, Goole and Pocklington, Greenwich and Woolwich, Guildford, Hampshire East, Hampshire North West, Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, Harpenden and Berkhamsted, Harwich and North Essex, Hertford and Stortford, Hornchurch and Upminster, Hornsey and Friern Barnet, Kenilworth and Southam, Kettering, Lancashire West, Lothian East, Macclesfield, Melksham and Devizes, Mid Sussex, Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey, Morecambe and Lunesdale, Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke, New Forest West, Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norwich North, Peckham, Mid and South Pembrokeshire, Penistone and Stocksbridge, Richmond and Northallerton, Richmond Park, Rossendale and Darwen, Rugby, Salisbury, Sevenoaks, Sheffield Central, Sheffield Heeley, Sherwood Forest, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire, Stockport, Stockton North
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, Stretford and Urmston, Suffolk Central and North Ipswich, Suffolk South, Suffolk West, Thurrock, Tottenham, Twickenham, Upper Bann, Wakefield and Rothwell, Wallasey, Warwick and Leamington, Waveney Valley, Wellingborough and Rushden, Westmorland and Lonsdale, East WiltshireSouth West Wiltshire, Wirral West, Witham, Woking, Yeovil, York Central, York Outer
The overall national result should become very clear by this point but there is still scope for surprises.
After an ill-tempered battle with fellow veteran Luke Thomas, the Labour candidate, Johnny Mercer, the veterans’ minister, will learn whether he still has the support of his constituents in Plymouth Moor View.
And South West Norfolk has traditionally been among the safest Tory seats but it remains to be seen whether Liz Truss, the former prime minister, will be able to weather the storm.
It is estimated that the final results will pour in between 6am and 7am as dawn breaks over Britain.
The Liberal Democrats have the potential to pull off a final upset in the true blue Tory heartland of Wokingham, which until this election was represented by Sir John Redwood, the head of the No 10 policy unit under Margaret Thatcher.
One of the very last batch of declarations will be in Ilford North where Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, is standing for Labour.