Polls across the UK closed at 10pm on Thursday and voters are eagerly waiting for the results. An exit poll commission by the BBC, ITV and Sky News has predicted the Conservative Party will receive a majority of 86.

That means the Tories would gain 50 seats from the 2017 election, to have 368 MPs in Parliament.

In a massive blow to Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party is expected to lose 71 seats to have 191 MPs.

This result would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987 and Labour’s worst result since 1935.

The exit poll is a way of forecasting what may happen in the general election, after voting ends but before the results are known.

In 1992 and 2015 the exit poll was wrong and predicted a hung Parliament whereas the actual result was an outright Conservative majority.

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What time will the result come in your area?

The results will be released throughout the night and some have already been released.

Votes will be carefully counted in two stages and the process can take anything from a few hours to the rest of the night.

The first result was revealed form Netwactlc upon Tyne Central just before 11.30pm.

The results from the 650 constituencies will continue to be announced throughout the night.

The majority will be out between 2am and 5am on Friday morning.

Express.co.uk will be running rolling election coverage throughout the night.

The final results should be in by the end of Friday afternoon.

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What did the exit poll say?

• Conservative: 368
• Labour: 191
• Lib Dems: 13
• SNP: 55
• Other: 23

Who will win? Latest odds

Betfair Exchange – Overall Majority

• Conservative Majority – 1/33 (93 percent chance)
• No Majority – 29/1 (2 percent)
• Labour Majority – 249/1 (1 percent) 

Betfair Exchange spokesman Sam Rosbottom said: “Last month, Boris Johnson’s party were as big as 3/2 to win an overall majority but following the announcement of the Exit Poll, punters on the have backed the Tories into 1/33 to claim a majority.”

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