General Election 2024: Latest live constituency results from across the East of England

  • Explore our interactive map as results come in across the Anglia region

  • Links to county-by-county results in detail are below

Welcome to ITV News Anglia's election coverage through the night.

Key headlines:

  • Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is elected MP for Clacton, his first victory at the eighth attempt;

  • Reform UK also win in Great Yarmouth and - late on Friday - South Basildon and East Thurrock;

  • Tory grandees Liz Truss is ousted in South West Norfolk, Grant Shapps is deposed by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield;

  • Former deputy PM Dame Therese Coffey loses Suffolk Coastal, while ex-culture secretary Lucy Frazer is beaten by Lib Dems in Ely and East Cambridgeshire;

  • But Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch holds her seat in North West Essex;

  • Tory chairman Richard Holden wins Basildon and Billericay by 20 votes after two recounts in the closest result of the night;

  • Labour claims traditional Tory heartland seats such as Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard;

  • The Green Party takes a breakthrough seat in Waveney Valley through co-leader Adrian Ramsay;

  • Read our summary of the night's events and political correspondent Emma Hutchinson's analysis

Former Cabinet minister Grant Shapps has lost his seat, the Tory chairman faced two recounts, and Nigel Farage has made it into Parliament at the eighth time of asking, on a night of drama across the East.

Shapps was defeated by Labour's Andrew Lewin in Welwyn Hatfield in Hertfordshire, missing out by nearly 4,000 votes, becoming one of the first senior Tories to fall.

Speaking afterwards, he described the result as being driven by people voting against the Tories, rather than for Labour.

In Clacton, Nigel Farage won an 8,000 majority for Reform UK, overturning a huge Tory majority.

He vowed afterwards that his party's victories were "the first step of something that is going to stun all of you".

Labour triumph and Reform break through as Tories collapse in the East

His party also gained Great Yarmouth in Norfolk - winning by just under 1,500 votes - and the the seat of South Basildon and East Thurrock, by fewer than 100 votes late on Friday afternoon, after a recount.

In Basildon and Billericay - expected to be the first seat in the region to declare - it took two full recounts to decide a winner, with just a handful of votes in it after the first count.

The seat was being contested by Conservative chairmen Richard Holden, who was parachuted into the seat, having previously represented North West Durham, and who was defending John Baron's 20,000-plus majority.

After the third count, he edged out Labour's Alex Harrison by just 20 votes.

Elsewhere, the Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay took a comfortable victory in Waveney Valley, claiming a majority of more than 6,000 votes.

The first constituency in the Anglia region to return an MP was Rayleigh and Wickford, where Conservative Mark Francois was returned with a majority reduced from 31,000 to 5,621 - an ominous sign of the Tory difficulties to come.

The interactive map at the top of this page reflects the political picture of the region, and you can read the detailed results for each county below:

Early results in the region mirrored those across the country, with Reform polling strongly and taking five-figure vote tallies in both Rayleigh and Wickford, and Castle Point.

Going into the General Election campaign, the Conservatives held 65 of the 71 constituencies in the Anglia region.

For Labour to take an overall majority, the party needed to take at least 12 more seats - a tally which polls during the campaign repeatedly suggested would be well within their power. In the 1997 landslide under Tony Blair, they took 28.

For the Conservatives, defending the true-blue seats won in 2019 - many with handsome majorities - were seen as being key to a strong performance.

Voting is under way across the region, including at Peterborough. Credit: ITV News Anglia

The Liberal Democrats had pinpointed a number of target seats across the East, and were hopeful of winning against both Labour and Conservative opposition in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire particularly.

Meanwhile, Reform UK had aimed at Clacton in Essex, and were also expected to poll strongly in seats including Great Yarmouth and North West Norfolk.

You can read here a full list of the constituencies and results to watch closely, including Nigel Farage in Clacton, Liz Truss in South West Norfolk, and potential bellwethers across the Anglia region.

Refresh this page through the night to see the latest results from where you live.

You can also follow live coverage led by Tom Bradby through the night on ITV1 or stream it on ITVX.

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