What we know so far: election results in the Midlands

  • Central

The Exit Poll at 22:00 predicted that the Conservatives would be the largest party, but would fall short of a majority. What happened across the Midlands?

East Midlands

The Labour party took four seats from the Conservatives.

  • Derby North

  • Peterborough

  • High Peak

  • Lincoln

Derby North was the most marginal Conservative seat in the country in 2015, on a 41 vote majority. Amanda Solloway has lost and Chris Williamson is back again with a majority of more than 2,000.

In Peterborough, Fiona Onasanya beat Conservative Stewart Jackson after a recount. She received 48.1% compared to Mr Jackson's 46.8%.

There were two gains for the Conservatives - they took Mansfield from Labour - for the first time since the seat was created. The Tories had been targeting the seat hard during the campaign, believing that Ukip and Leave voters might turn to them. Alan Meale had been the MP for 30 years; now Ben Bradley is the MP.

And they took Derbyshire North East.

Anna Soubry, the Broxtowe MP, won her seat but was a vocal critic of her party's campaign.

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall was standing in Boston and Skegness, after failing to win Stoke Central in a by-election earlier this year. And it was a disastrous night again for the party - he lost to the Conservatives, picking up just under 8% of the vote, down 26% from the party's performance in the seat in 2015.

West Midlands

In the West Midlands, a dramatic loss at Stoke South as Labour's Rob Flello loses his seat to the Conservatives. Meanwhile, in Stoke Central Labour increased its majority by 10,000.

Labour retained many of the seats being targeted by the Tories. Birmingham stayed Labour, as did Wolverhampton and Coventry.

They held onto Edgbaston, despite Gisela Stuart standing down, and Preet Gill became the first female Sikh MP to be elected.

They won Warwick and Leamington but they lost Walsall North - veteran MP David Winnick failed to defend his seat after holding the seat since 1979 and Conservative Eddie Hughes is the MP.