The exit poll is about to give the first indication of results in a general election hailed as the most important in a generation.
Results come from researchers at polling stations across the country interviewing voters, and will arrive as soon as voting closes across the country.
The breakdown arrives at 10pm and have usually reliably indicated the ultimate results of the vote.
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The link below takes you to our one-stop-shop results page, including a map of 2017 and 2019 results for every seat in the country, a live tracker of the race to secure a majority, and a chart you can use to check how any constituency has voted.
These will be updated throughout the night as results come in.
Obligatory dog photos
To pass the time as we wait for that exit poll at 10pm, here are a few more polling station pooches.
'Get Berxit done'
In a possible attempt to boost social media engagement, the Tories have adapted their campaign slogan to include a deliberate mispelling.
Not sure what we're supposed to make of this, other than everyone could perhaps do with a long lie down.
Johnson out campaigning in Uxbridge hours before polls close
Boris Johnson has been campaigning in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency this evening, with just hours to go before the polls close
His majority was cut by more than half to 5,034 in the 2017 election, and there have been suggestions the prime minister faces a tough battle to retain his seat.
It’s raining in Workington, the Cumbrian constituency said to symbolise the kind of key seat the Tories are aiming to win tonight.
The grim weather reflects the voters’ mood. The overwhelming impression from people here is they’d like to give every party a ballot box kicking if they could.
Students prevented from voting due to 'administrative errors'
Dozens of students have been prevented from voting due to an "administrative error", the University of Southampton's student union has said.
The union said it was aware of at least 76 cases of students being unable to cast a ballot because they were not on their polling station list despite being registered to vote.
One of those prevented from voting was Jo Lisney, the union's vice-president for education and democracy, who said: "It was a shock this morning when I went to vote and was told I couldn’t. I had my polling card come through so I knew I could, but the people at the station showed me the list and it said ‘details deleted’.
"After this I called the Electoral Commission and they confirmed I can vote and told me to go back with my polling card but if it doesn’t work, call them again.”
In a statement posted on its website, the union said: "We are deeply concerned about this news as everyone who is able should be allowed to exercise their democratic right to vote. Despite there being a relatively short turnaround for this election, there has been over 2 weeks since the registration deadline for the Electoral Register to update the information given to polling stations.
"We therefore find it unacceptable that the records haven’t been updated adequately which has put unnecessary barriers in place to voters. This is particularly distressing to first-time voters, including many of our students."
Anyone affected by the issue has been advised to contact Southampton's electoral services on 023 8083 2245 to confirm they are registered.
Queues outside polling stations as voting enters final hours
Pictures of queues outside polling stations across the country are emerging amid the after-work rush to vote.
Labour report 'offensive and illegal' anti-Corbyn posters to police
The Labour Party has contacted police about hundreds of "offensive and illegal" anti-Jeremy Corbyn posters plastered across Sheffield overnight, reports local newspaper The Star.
Campaigners targeted streets, schools and polling stations in the Penistone and Stocksbridge areas of the city before polling stations opened this morning.
Labour members have today been removing the posters, which feature a picture of Corbyn alongside the words "don't let this extremist win" and "would you trust this man with your children?"
According to The Star, the party has reported the flyers to South Yorkshire Police, Barnsley and Sheffield councils and the Electoral Commission as a criminal offence.
Rage Against the Machine back former Tory minister
Stormzy has thrown his weight behind Jeremy Corbyn, while Coldplay's Chris Martin has said he will probably vote Lib Dem.
Now here is a more surprising celebrity endorsement: Rage Against the Machine encouraging voters to back David Gauke.
The US rap-metal veterans have produced a tactical voting guide offering advice on how to beat the Tories. It recommends going for former Conservative minister Gauke in South West Hertfordshire.
Nearly half of UK Facebook users view Momentum videos
Some 17m of the UK's 36m Facebook users have watched Momentum videos since the election campaign began, compared to 13m in 2017, the campaign group says.
Momentum, the Corbyn-backing activist network, has churned out more than 160 videos during the election campaign, amassing over 70 million views across Facebook and Twitter.
It says 17 of these videos have received more than a million views on Facebook alone, with the highest viewed video being watched 8.3m times. Meanwhile the Conservatives' top viewed video has only 1.4m views on Facebook, while the Labour Party's has 6.9m views.
Laura Parker, Momentum's National Coordinator, said: "The Tories may have had a handful of billionaire press barons on their side, but we've had tens of thousands of people across the country sharing our videos to millions. This has allowed our message to cut through the unprecedented levels of media bias we've seen this election.
"As well as having national treasures on our side, we've also used our videos to amplify the voices of ordinary people fed up of the way Boris Johnson and the Tories are running the country into the ground."
Maria Kalinowska, a Polish national and anti-Brexit activist, who lives in the UK, says: 'I’ve lived here for most of my life. But without British citizenship, I cannot take part in an election that may well make my life harder'.
PM's Brexit plan would shrink economy by nearly 2%, say trade experts
The UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) says its analysis of the impact of leaving the EU and switching from frictionless trade to a free trade agreement indicates an economic downturn of 1.8%.
Even if mitigating trade deals with the US, Australia and New Zealand were agreed at the same time as writing a Brussels deal, the Conservative Party leader's withdrawal plans would still see UK output decline by 1.4%, the academics said.
Such a hit would slice £28bn off the economy and mean every household in the country would be £1,000 worse off, according to the BBC's Newsnight, which first published the research.
Michael Gasiorek, a professor of economics and a fellow of UKTPO, said the relatively low tariffs Britain enjoys on most US goods meant a free trade agreement with Donald Trump would not offset the damage done by leaving the European single market and customs union.
"Nearly 43% of UK trade is currently with the EU, while under 12% is with the US," Prof Gasiorek said.
"Reducing barriers on 12% of trade simply cannot compensate for increasing barriers on 43% of trade.
"For every 1% reduction in trade with the EU, in order to compensate for this, a deal with the US would have to increase trade by three to four times as much. This is not feasible."
A Conservative spokesman said: "The prime minister's fantastic deal makes clear that we will have a future relationship based on free trade and friendly co-operation.
"By striking trade deals around the world we will create exciting new opportunities for British businesses."
The Tory manifesto claims free trade is the "best way" to increase exports, cut prices and increase investment.
Long queues reported at polling stations as voters turn out for 'election of a lifetime'
Voters have reported long queues outside polling stations, with some members of the public walking away without casting their ballots.
As voting got underway for one of the most important elections in a generation, waits of more than half an hour were reported at schools, community centres and churches across England, with queueing appearing widespread in places such as London, Manchester and Cambridge.
Images of voters forming long lines in the cold weather prompted speculation about whether there had been a spike in turnout compared to the 2017 general election.
"If I were Isaac Levido, the Conservative election campaign chief, I would be worried about one graph produced by the team behind YouGov’s MRP poll yesterday. On page 54 of the notes on the methodology of the poll, there is a scatter plot of the team’s estimates of the number of seats the Conservatives are likely to win tomorrow."
