The Results 9pm - 2am

2am:
Labour 31
Tory 15
Libs 4

Ok - that's the first 50. New 'early morning' blog coming up...

1:55am:
Totals update:
Labour 28
Tory 14
Lib Dem 4

My town of birth Sevenoaks: Tory hold 56.8% with a Lib Dem to Tory swing of 3.1%
And up at the other end of the island, Na H-Eileanan An Iar [Western Isles] SNP hold 45.7%
Staffordshire Moorlands Tory hold 45.2% with another Labour to Tory swing of 5.7%

1:50am:
On to London:
Putney called: Tory hold with 52% and a massive 9.9% swing from Labour to Tory.
Battersea now confirmed: Labour (35.1%) loses to Tory 47.3% with 6.5% swing.
Tooting: Labour hold 43.5% with a swing Labour to Tory of 3.6%

1:45am:
Our man-on-the-ground @RWhitehouse13 says "still very early, but word here is that SouthEast Cornwall and St Austell & Newquay have gone to the Tories and North Cornwall to Lib Dems".

Rushcliffe called: Tory hold 51.2%
The Wrekin called: Tory hold 47.7%
Clwyd called: Labour hold 38.4%
Christchurch called: Tory hold 56.4%
Clacton called: Tory hold 53%
Broxbourne called: Tory hold 58.8%
Guildford called: Tory hold 53.3% with a Lib Dem to Tory swing of 6.9%

1:40am:
Yeovil has been called Lib Dem. Confirmed numbers to come.
Llanelli called Labour hold 42.5%
Islwyn called Labour win
Fife North East called: Lib Dem hold 44.3%

Overall seats update:
Labour: 22
Tory: 9
Lib Dem: 4

1:35am
Brown speaks. Mentions everyone's God given right to vote and thanks his constituency for giving people the opportunity to do so.
He talks about friendship and support and pride.
Been voted in 7 elections in a row.
Blows his own trumpet a bit.
He thanks Sarah for her love and support and legendary campaigning skills.
27 years as an MP. Boomin' ek.

1:30am:
City of Durham:
Labour: 20,496
UKIP: 856
Inde: 172
......

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
UKIP: 760
Labour: 29,559 - BROWN ELECTED
SNP: 6,550
Lib Dems: 4,269
Conservative: 4,258



1:25am:
Filton & Bradley Stoke:
Conservative hold 40.8%

Ynys Mon:
Labour hold 33.4%

Easington:
Labour hold 58.9% but a Labour to Lib Dem swing of 7.7%

Sedgefield:
Labour hold 45.1% but with a massive Labour to Conservative swing of 11.6%

"The Conservative government will be very much an English government"

1:20am:
OK round-up so far
Labour: 10
Conservative: 4
Lib Deb: 2
But the Tory swings are far greater than the exit polls suggested.
BBC presenters are being far too aggressive. It's 1.20 in the morning for Gawd's sake. Stop shouting.

1:10am
Putney:
BNP: 459
Conservative: 21,223 - elected and held
Labour: 11,170
Green 591
Lib Dem 6,907
UKIP 435
9.9% from Labour to Conservatives

Upper Ban called:
Democratic Unionist Party hold 33.8%

Motherwell & Wishaw called:
Labour hold 61.1%

Torbay called:
BNP: 709
Green: 468%
UKIP: 2,628
Labour: 3,231
Lib Dem 23,126 - Elected and held
Conservative: 19,048
64.6% turnout - 8%more than last election

Broxbourne called:
Conservative hold 58.8%


1am:
Kingswood called:
Conservative elected with 40.4% - 9.4% swing from Labour to Conservative.

Basildon South rumour of a Tory seat.

Rutherglen & Hamilton West called:
Labour hold with 60.8%

12:50am:
First South West count to be called : Thornbury & Yate
Lib Dem elected 51.9%
75% turnout
4.3% swing Lib Dem to Conservative

Darlington called:
Labour hold with 39.4%

Durham North called:
Labour hold

Arfon called:
Plaid Cymru elected with 36% - a loss for Labour

Lagan Valley called:
Democratic Unionist Party hold with 49.8%

12:45am:
6 seats confirmed. Beeb hasn't been keeping up.
Also called:
Tyrone West: Elected Sinn Fein with 48.4%
Antrim North: Elected Democratic Unionist Party with 46.4%
Belfast East: Elected Alliance Party Naiomi Long with 37.2%. The first time this party have ever won a seat.

12:40am:
Jenny Watson Chair of the Electoral Commision explains they have no power of direction over polling stations. They set the law, but can't enforce it. Bonkers. At least she say's it's of 'significant concern'.

Dave of the Cam turns up to a local pub. For some reason.
Hackney South voters now saying they were turned away an hour before the polls officially closed.

12:25am:
Tories are tweeting that they suspect they've taken a seat at Battersea.

12:15am:
Joan Collins thinks Dave of the Cam would make a good PM based soley on his looks.
Crumbs.
Ok, more on the bomb alert - the Beeb say:

Counting at a centre in Londonderry has been officially suspended following a security alert. About 500 people have been moved out of the Templemore Sports Complex after a hijacked car was abandoned in the car park. The gymnasium where the count was taking place has been closed and the doors sealed. Army bomb disposal experts are on the scene.

GB arrives at his constituency. Ken Clarke grumbles that the BBC 'got terribly excited about pictures of Cameron leaving his house in a silver car earlier'. Paxo says that's the 'joys of television'.

12:10am:
Sir Dave of the Cam has left his house to head to the count.
Lots of constituencies claiming doors closed at 10 and queuing voters turned away, including Sheffield and Hackney North.
Birmingham apparently called everyone into the polling station to shut and lock the doors at 10pm so public could still vote.
Bomb alert in Northern Island. Bomb squad on their way.

12:00am:
Beeb reporting that Labour are claiming 6,00 voters were turned away in Chester because the polling list hadn't been updated.
GB leaves his house to go to the count.

11:50pm
Nick Griffin just arrived in Barking. Dimbleby on BBC refer to BNP as 'that ilk' and a 'racist party'.
Reports of polling stations which a) turned people away at 10pm b) ran out of ballot papers and c) let people vote after 10pm - after the exit polls were published. Bit of a shambles, really.
George Osborne tells Beeb:

I do not think there's any question of Labour being able to continue following this massive rejection of the Labour party. The Conservative party has gained more seats than at any time since 1931.

11:40pm:
Sunderland count. David Cameron's 'wild card' - would be the first Conservative seat in Sunderland since 1963. Would need a 12.8% swing to win it:

Lib Dems: 7,191
Labour: 19,495 - elected
UKIP: 1,094
Conservative: 12,770
BNP: 1,913
57% turnout. A 4.8% swing from Labour to Conservative. BNP appear to have attracted rather a lot of votes.

11:35pm:
The Twittered election:
@charlotte0387 "BREAKING STORY: voters turned away at ranmoor polling station are refusing to let the ballot box out of the building. Police there."
Exit poll suggested 5.5% swing for Tories - the first two called suggests swing of 9%

11:25pm:
Second count: Washington and Sunderland West count:
Lib Dems: 6,382
Conservative: 8,157
Labour: 19,615 (53%) - elected
UKIP: 1,267
BNP: 1,913
54% turnout - even worse!
11.6% swing to Conservative - the largest swing we've seen since 1945

10:50pm
First count through: Houghton and Sunderland South count:
BNP: 1,961
Lib Dem: 5,292
UKIP: 1,022
Conservative: 8,147
Labour: 19,137 (50%) - elected
Independent: 2,142

Turnout just 55% - terrible! Still a Tory swing by 8%. If that's duplicated elsewhere we've got a Tory gvnt. Weird tweet from @UKLabourParty "Please retweet if you have voted labour. Thank you".
Paxo just likened Mr Brown to a 'squatter'. Love Paxo.

Feeling tired already. Other half is waining and Facebook friends are fast dropping off since first result called. Must find some caffeine...

Slight change to the exit polls - 2 down for the Conservatives, 2 more for Labour.

10:40pm
Trendsmap showing tweets over the UK currently looks like this:
Exit polls showing a Tory swing of 5.5%. Talk of Lib Dems agreeing to work with a Conservative gvnt.

10:20pm
Reports coming in that Sheffield constituency polling station closed it's doors on queuing voters at 10 pm. Could mean trouble...

10pm:
So that's it. If you didn't vote you're too late now. BBC exit poll shows that we're headed for a hung parliament. Prediction of seats:

Conservatives 307 (need 326 for majority win)
Labour 255
Lib Dems 59

Exit poll carried out at around 130 polling stations, and about 16,500 interviews.

9:10pm
The Alternative Election Night just played The Final Countdown (see earlier blog)! Are they following me? Perhaps they would later like to play Bobby Brown...? Or replace Laverne with me? Now there's an idea...

9pm
Crumbs. It's that time already. The Alternative Election Night has just started on Ch4. Already a truly terrible 'joke' about Big Brother and voting for who you want to 'stay in the house'. Is that canned laughter or is there really a hyena in the studio?

Not sure I can stomach 4 hours of that. If you want to tweet them it's #c4altelection. Exit polls and the like coming up..