UK general election results live: 'We did it,' says Keir Starmer as Labour wins landslide in general election (2024)

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Summary

Labour wins in a landslide in the UK general election - Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister
"Change begins now," Starmer says; Rishi Sunak says Britain has delivered a "sobering verdict"
Labour have won more than 400 out of the 650 seats in the Commons - the Conservatives are just over 110. The Lib Dems make big gains, while the SNP lose most of their seats
High-profile Conservative casualties include former Prime Minister Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Penny Mordaunt
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage becomes an MP for the first time, as the party nets four MPs
Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins as an independent, while the Green Party's Carla Denyer wins Bristol Central

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Edited by Dulcie Lee and Nathan Williams

Hunt at 11 Downing Street – for the last timepublished at 07:11
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Nick Eardley
Political correspondent
Image source, Reuters
Outgoing chancellor Jeremy Hunt has just arrived at 11Downing Street for the last time, accompanied by his wife.
He doesn’t answerquestions on the way in.
Tories lose seats held by four previous PMspublished at 07:09
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Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert
The Tories have lost the seats of all the prime ministers since 2010, apart from Rishi Sunak.
They have now lost:
- David Cameron's seat of Witney to the Lib Dems
- Theresa May's seat of Maidenhead to the Lib Dems
- Boris Johnson's seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip to Labour
- Liz Truss's seat of South West Norfolk to Labour
Tory Steve Baker loses Wycombe seat - won by Labourpublished at 07:06
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Catching up? Here's what you missed from election night – in 100 wordspublished at 07:04
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James FitzGerald
Live reporter
If your alarm's justgone off, good morning. Here’s what you need to know:
- Labour has won the electionby a landslide, and PM-elect Sir Keir Starmer says “change begins now”. RishiSunak has apologised to fellow Tories
- Numerous Conservative heavyweightshave lost their seats, among them the former PM Liz Truss
- The Lib Dems are hailingtheir “best result for a century”, and Nigel Farage is among four new Reform UKMPs – winning a seat on his eighth try
- The SNP have taken abattering in Scotland, but better news for the Greens – who are up to fourseats
Ian Paisley Jnr loses North Antrim seat to the TUVpublished at 07:01
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Over now to Northern Ireland, where Ian Paisley Jnr has lost his seat in North Antrim.
TUV's Jim Allister is the new MP, winning by just 450 votes.
It means the DUP's Paisley - whose father Ian Paisley Snr founded the party - has lost the seat held in the family since 1970.
Cleverly 'really sad' over Truss losspublished at 06:59
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Speaking to the BBC, Home Secretary James Cleverly says the Conservatives "need to learn from this result" to try and get back into government as soon as possible.
Asked about former prime minister Liz Truss losing her seat, Cleverly pays tribute, calling her "a great parliamentarian".
"Liz was a friend as well as a colleague," he says, adding that he is "really sad" to hear the result.
And on his party's performance in general, Cleverly says part of democracy is that there is always a "risk" you could lose an election.
"All we can do," he says is "take a short period of time to think about what has happened and why and respond to it".
But, he concedes, it was a "very, very bad result for us tonight".
Watch: The story of the night in under two minutespublished at 06:55
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Truss loses seat by about 600 votespublished at 06:50
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Image source, PA Media
Labour's Terry Jermy wins South West Norfolk with 11,847 votes.
That compares to 11,217 for Truss.
A reminder that she was PM less than two years ago.
In 2019, she won the seat with a huge majority of 26,195.
Former PM Liz Truss loses seatpublished at 06:48
06:48Breaking
Massive news just in from South West Norfolk - former Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss has been defeated by Labour.
She spent only a matter of weeks in Downing Street as PM in 2022 after a mini-budget went wrong.
Lib Dems gain Maidenhead - Theresa May's old seatpublished at 06:45
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The Liberal Democrats have gained the seat of Maidenhead from the Conservatives.
That seat was previously held by former PM Theresa May - who announced she was standing down as an MP at this election.
The Lib Dem's Joshua Reynolds takes the seat, ahead of the Conservative candidate, Tania Mathias, in second.
'Cataclysmic night' for the SNP - Mhairi Blackpublished at 06:43
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As Labour celebrates its wins across the country, the mood in the SNP camp strikes a very different tone.
Mhairi Black, who stood aside in Paisley and Renfrewshire South, was among those to see her former seat fall to the Labour landslide.
Johanna Baxter took that constituency ahead of the SNP’s Jacqueline Cameron.
The SNP’s former deputy Westminster leader described the result as “cataclysmic” and criticised the party for turning voters away by putting the blame on them.
“What was expected to be a difficult night for the SNP now looks set to be cataclysmic!” she writes on X., external
“Blaming voters, or doing anything other than serious self reflection is precisely the kind of attitude that has turned so many away from the SNP," she says.
Labour gains Chelsea and Fulham from the Conservativespublished at 06:39
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Greens gain North Herefordshire from the Conservativespublished at 06:38
06:38Breaking
The Green Party have claimed their third victory of the night, taking North Herefordshire from the Tories.
Greens to push Starmer for 'bold' actionpublished at 06:35
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Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has just been speaking to our TV colleagues after becoming the new MP for Waveney Valley in East Anglia.
He says he's "truly humbled" after overturning a sizeable Tory majority in the East Anglian seat.
"We'll be pushing the new government to be bolder," he says, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of being "timid" on environmental issues.
And here are some more seats changing handspublished at 06:35
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Labour have picked up more seats from the Conservatives - Wellingborough and Rushden, Forest of Dean, Stafford, Selby, Kettering and Aylesbury
And the Lib Dems have picked up two more seats - again from the Tories - in South Cotswolds, and West Dorset.
Turnout expected to be second lowest since 1885published at 06:33
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Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert
The BBC is predicting that the turnout will be 60% across the UK as a whole.
This will be the second lowest turnout in a UK election since 1885. Only the 59% in 2001 was lower.
More gains for the Lib Dems and Labourpublished at 06:28
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We've still got plenty of results coming in, and in the last few minutes the Liberal Democrats have picked up three seats - Epsom and Ewell, Horsham, and Newbury - all from the Conservatives.
Meanwhile Labour has picked up Northampton North, Reading West and Mid Berkshire, and Stoke-on-Trent South - also from the Conservatives.
Labour set to win with 35% share of the votepublished at 06:28
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Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expert
With more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:
Labour - 35% (+2)
Conservatives - 24% (-21)
Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)
Reform - 15% (+13)
Green - 7% (+4)
This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.
Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.
More female MPs than ever beforepublished at 06:25
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We already know there'll be a record number of women in the new House of Commons.
Some 242 female MPs have been voted in so far – and the counting's not over yet.
That surpasses the previous all-time high of 220, which was set in 2019.
Three more independents gain seatspublished at 06:24
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Some more results to bring you now, with three independent candidates winning in these areas:
- North Down in Northern Ireland from the Alliance Party
- Dewsbury and Batley from Labour
- Blackburn from Labour
You can look up who has won in your area in our postcode look-up tool.