LIVE: UK General Election Results As They Happen

The UK public have cast their votes and the General Election results are being announced throughout the night – with exit polls predicting a historic Labour landslide victory.

What you need to know: 

Here are the results of the 2024 General Election so far:

Houghton & Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare its results, with Labour winning with 18,847 votes. Reform UK came in second place with 11,668 votes.

The first seat to change hands was Swindon South, where the Conservative candidate Robert Buckland, who was previously Welsh Secretary and Justice Secretary, lost his seat to Labour.

Labour gained their first Scottish seat of the night in Kilmarnock and Loudoun, which was previously held by the SNP.

The predicted landslide win for Labour, which puts the party well over the 326 MP threshold required to form a government, reflects the party's large leads in the polls for the many months leading up to the 4 July General Election.

The first Conservative candidate to retain his seat was Mark Francois in Rayleigh and Wickford. The Liberal Democrats won their first seat of the night from the Conservatives in Harrogate and Knaresborough.

Reform UK won their first ever seat in Ashfield, with former Conservative MP Lee Anderson winning the seat for the party having defected from the Tories earlier this year.

In Rochdale, Workers Party candidate George Galloway has lost to Labour's Paul Waugh. Galloway won a by-election earlier this year after the then-Labour candidate Azhar Ali lost the support of his party.

This is what the next Parliament is looking like in terms of seats by party so far:

Responding to the exit poll, Labour's National Campaign Coordinator Pat McFadden, said: "If we are successful tonight, Labour