UK General Election night: What to expect hour-by-hour

By 4am enough results should be in to know which party is on course to win the election and by what margin

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Ian Jones

Here is a guide to when to expect the key results on UK election night.

The election is being held using new constituency boundaries, which means the results cannot be compared directly with what happened at the last general election in 2019.