Dawn Primarolo held Bristol South, although her majority was reduced to just 4,734 (9.8 per cent). The turnout was 61.6 per cent, up 2.6 per cent.

Following a few problems in the verification process, the Bristol South count didn’t get underway until after 3am, and the result was finally declared at 5.40am – the last result in Bristol be declared.

Ms Primarolo’s share of the vote was 38.4 per cent; Liberal Democrat Mark Wright took 28.7 per cent of the vote and Conservative Mark Lloyd Davies took 22.9 per cent. There was a swing of 7.5 per cent to the LibDems.

Of the other Bristol South candidates, it was Colin Chidsey of the British National Party that took the most votes (1,739).

This is the breakdown of the results for Bristol South:

Dawn Primarolo, Labour; 18,600 votes; 38.4% (-10.1)

Mark Wright, Liberal Democrat; 13,866 votes; 28.7% (+4.9)

Mark Lloyd Davies, Conservative; 11,086 votes; 22.9% (+3.3)

Colin Chidsey, British National Party; 1,739 votes; 3.6%

Colin McNamee, UK Independence Party; 1,264 votes; 2.6% (-0.5)

Charlie Bolton, Green; 1,216 votes; 2.5% (-2.5)

Craig Clarke, English Democrats; 400 votes; 0.8%

Tom Baldwin, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition; 206 votes; 0.4%

At the time of writing, the national result is still unclear. The BBC is predicting that it will be a hung parliament and at the moment, it seems that the Conservatives will hold the largest number of seats.

At 10pm, the initial exit poll (joint BBC/Sky/ITV) indicated a hung parliament, with the Conservatives thought likely to take enough seats to form a comfortable minority government – the poll suggested the Conservatives would have the largest number of seats, 307; Labour, 255; LibDems, 59 and others, 29 seats.

The night’s events began to unfold much as anticipated with the first declaration from Houghton and Sunderland South, but then took an unexpected turn.

By 11.30pm, a voting scandal had emerged.

There were extraordinary scenes around the country as turnouts in some constituencies were so high that several polling stations were unable to cope and had to turn away hundreds of voters in order to shut the doors at 10pm. Some shut their doors earlier, at 9pm.

A legal challenge is likely in some constituencies where polling stations extended the opening times. At one polling station in Birmingham, those voters already in the queue as the time approached 10pm were invited inside before the doors were locked.

A high turnout of students, many without their polling cards, was blamed by some returning officers for administrative delays that left many people unable to vote.

At other polling stations, they even ran out of ballot papers.

But back to Bristol South: what do you think of the result? Are you pleased or disappointed?