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08th May 2015

General Election 2015: The story of the night

JOE

Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it through the night – here’s the story of the 2015 General Election including all the key details you need to know…

The exit poll signalled bad news for Labour and the Liberal Democrats…

But Paddy Ashdown remained defiant on BBC News…

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The first seat to be announced was Houghton and Sunderland South, giving Labour a narrow lead…

Although that joke soon grew old…

All eyes turned to Nuneaton and Labour’s bid to take a Tory constituency…

But things didn’t exactly go to plan…

And Scotland weren’t very happy with Labour either…

Despite Nicola Sturgeon’s caution at the exit poll, there was huge success for the SNP, with 20-year-old student Mhairi Black becoming the youngest MP since 1667.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy was another casualty on a terrible night for the party, losing his East Renfrewshire seat to the SNP…

While it was also punishing news for the Lib Dems, with Nick Clegg tipped to resign as party leader…

Elsewhere, Nigel Farage was on the brink of losing his Thanet South seat to the Conservatives, sarcastically thanking the editors at The Sun and the Daily Mail…

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon extended another olive branch to Ed Miliband in the middle of the night…

But Labour had other pressing worries, with rumours that Ed Balls could be ousted in Leeds…

Vince Cable was ditched for the Conservatives in Twickenham, blaming a ‘fear campaign’ for a dreadful night…

While former Conservative Douglas Carswell won Ukip’s first seat and George Galloway lost in Bradford…

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Ed Miliband held on to his seat in Doncaster, but that’s about all he had going for him…

And David Cameron was also re-elected in Witney, with the Conservatives forecast to come close to a majority…

And this is where things stood at 7am on Friday morning…