:00:00. > :00:17.Good morning. reflecting
:00:18. > :00:20.Welcome to a Look North Election results special here on BBC One.
:00:21. > :00:22.We're also broadcasting live on Facebook.
:00:23. > :00:25.Well - it's been a disappointing night for the Conservatives
:00:26. > :00:28.and a better than expected one for Labour.
:00:29. > :00:31.Two seats have changed hands in the North East and Cumbria.
:00:32. > :00:34.Over the next 25 minutes, we'll bring you the key results
:00:35. > :00:38.And I'll be discussing them with representatives
:00:39. > :00:44.Our coverage, though, begins at Stockton South -
:00:45. > :00:46.home to the biggest shock of the night regionally.
:00:47. > :00:50.The Conservatives had a majority of more than 5,000 and had held
:00:51. > :00:57.But Labour surprised many by taking back control by nearly 900 votes.
:00:58. > :01:04.This was the moment James Wharton's worst fears were realised.
:01:05. > :01:07.He always knew it was going to be close but in
:01:08. > :01:29.A local doctor, he's only been in politics for five weeks.
:01:30. > :01:33.Now he's the new MP for Stockton South.
:01:34. > :01:36.I feel really privileged that people of Stockton
:01:37. > :01:39.South have voted for me to become their Member of Parliament.
:01:40. > :01:43.I intend to be a hard-working Member of Parliament,
:01:44. > :01:46.visible throughout the whole constituency and I want to be a
:01:47. > :01:50.Member of Parliament for every person in Stockton South.
:01:51. > :01:52.James Wharton actually received more votes
:01:53. > :01:55.this time than when he won the seat in 2015.
:01:56. > :02:02.The people of Stockton South have spoken, the people of Teesside have
:02:03. > :02:05.spoken, indeed the country, I don't know how long
:02:06. > :02:10.here again but for this evening, this polling day, Stockton South's
:02:11. > :02:21.Well, the Conservatives managed to overturn a Labour seat
:02:22. > :02:23.in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland.
:02:24. > :02:35.says his top priority is ensuring Brexit goes through.
:02:36. > :02:38.After a night of mainly grim news for the Conservatives, finally
:02:39. > :02:44.The Tories taking Middlesbrough South at East Cleveland,
:02:45. > :02:51.People here wanted Brexit delivered, they want
:02:52. > :02:55.to see us leave the European Union, get the right deal and I'm
:02:56. > :02:58.delighted they've put their trust in me and I promise I will deliver.
:02:59. > :03:02.The previous Labour MP said he had irreconcilable differences with
:03:03. > :03:11.For Tracy Harvey, who did, losing out was just too much.
:03:12. > :03:17.She left the count without doing interviews.
:03:18. > :03:20.The Lib Dems came third, losing their deposit.
:03:21. > :03:25.We were subject to a squeeze where the two other parties
:03:26. > :03:31.Lots of people had to decide whether to vote
:03:32. > :03:35.On what's undoubtedly been a very difficult
:03:36. > :03:39.night for the Conservative Party nationally, Middlesbrough South and
:03:40. > :03:44.East Cleveland has been a bright spot, taking one of a target seats
:03:45. > :03:56.One of the Conservative's biggest disappointments of the night came
:03:57. > :03:58.as they narrowly missed taking the Labour marginal
:03:59. > :04:04.Labour's Helen Goodman clung on with a reduced majority of 502
:04:05. > :04:08.after a determined Tory campaign in the constituency that included
:04:09. > :04:12.a visit by foreign secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday.
:04:13. > :04:16.Labour also successfully defended seats elsewhere in County Durham,
:04:17. > :04:20.as our political correspondent Luke Walton reports.
:04:21. > :04:26.Helen Goodman's seat, a top Conservative target, and when her
:04:27. > :04:31.3,000 Labour majority was slashed to just 500, eventually
:04:32. > :04:37.So did this critic of Jeremy Corbyn acknowledge that he
:04:38. > :04:41.I wouldn't say that Jeremy has been vindicated by
:04:42. > :04:45.I think it was Labour values that ran much more deeply in
:04:46. > :04:50.In neighbouring Sedgefield, a more comfortable 6,000
:04:51. > :04:56.He too is no fan of Mr Corbyn but said his leader
:04:57. > :05:03.It was about her and about her mandate to
:05:04. > :05:09.I think people knew that there was something not quite right here,
:05:10. > :05:12.considering the same person said on more than one occasion that there
:05:13. > :05:18.Here, like so many places, a dramatic fall in the Ukip vote.
:05:19. > :05:21.But also a failure by the Conservatives to
:05:22. > :05:26.It has not been the night we expected shall I say.
:05:27. > :05:29.I think there will be some rethinking to be done.
:05:30. > :05:31.For Labour, the good news kept coming.
:05:32. > :05:34.City of Durham delivering an increased
:05:35. > :05:37.12,000 majority on a night when they defied so many
:05:38. > :05:48.In Darlington, Labour's Jenny Chapman held onto her seat.
:05:49. > :05:51.It was one of the Conservatives main targets.
:05:52. > :05:54.She beat the Conservative candidate into second place
:05:55. > :05:58.and increased her majority in what turned out to be a very
:05:59. > :06:05.Darlington was a top Conservative target.
:06:06. > :06:08.Even Labour were gloomy about their prospects.
:06:09. > :06:19.Both candidates were left making speeches they hadn't prepared for.
:06:20. > :06:28.I just want to thank everybody who took
:06:29. > :06:31.part in this election, everybody who voted and many
:06:32. > :06:37.I guess the exit poll is proving increasingly true here.
:06:38. > :06:44.We've got such a massive increase in the Conservative vote.
:06:45. > :06:49.Sadly, the Labour vote also went up by a good amount.
:06:50. > :06:54.Neither candidate would be interviewed on a night of
:06:55. > :06:57.For one losing candidate at least, he welcomed the
:06:58. > :07:01.The number of people who talked to me and said they loved Green
:07:02. > :07:05.Party policies but on this occasion they had to vote anything but Tory
:07:06. > :07:09.Five weeks ago when the Conservatives won
:07:10. > :07:11.the Teesvalley race, seats
:07:12. > :07:14.like this one looked there for the taking for the Tories but
:07:15. > :07:17.tonight, Darlington has joined a list of disappointing results for
:07:18. > :07:25.Richard joins us now from Darlington.
:07:26. > :07:28.In Workington in West Cumbria, Labour's Sue Hayman held
:07:29. > :07:30.on to her seat, albeit with a slightly reduced majority.
:07:31. > :07:34.She put her victory down to a number of factors.
:07:35. > :07:37.I've only been the MP for two years but I've worked very hard.
:07:38. > :07:39.People tell me I've achieved plenty in that
:07:40. > :07:42.time, saving the courts for example, fighting for our health services,
:07:43. > :07:45.supporting people through the floods.
:07:46. > :07:48.Also we had a good manifesto and that did come up on the
:07:49. > :07:50.doorstep, people wanted to talk about health and education for
:07:51. > :07:56.Labour held on in Hartlepool, with a new MP being elected
:07:57. > :07:57.to replace Iain Wright who stood down.
:07:58. > :08:02.Mike Hill was elected with an increased majority for Labour.
:08:03. > :08:05.The Conservatives came second, and UKIP's share
:08:06. > :08:15.In the end, a comfortable win in Hartlepool for Labour.
:08:16. > :08:19.A seat in which Ukip and the Conservatives entertained
:08:20. > :08:24.So how did Labour poll nearly 22,000 votes,
:08:25. > :08:29.more than 7,000 ahead of the Conservatives in second place?
:08:30. > :08:33.It was about normal issues so Brexit and Corbyn were not dominant
:08:34. > :08:41.The Conservative candidate, more than 14,000 votes, but didn't
:08:42. > :08:46.Even though he increased the party vote from the
:08:47. > :08:52.You said you would talk to us, why won't you talk to ask us?
:08:53. > :08:58.The Ukip's man in third with over 4,000 votes, about 6,500
:08:59. > :09:11.For the Lib Dems, it was another lost deposit,
:09:12. > :09:17.Labour's win means Hartlepool hasn't seen Conservative
:09:18. > :09:30.For them, it wasn't meant to be like this.
:09:31. > :09:32.Well, with me now to discuss the political picture
:09:33. > :09:35.here in the North and nationally, Ian Mearns, re-elected MP
:09:36. > :09:40.for Gateshead, Melanie Hurst for UKIP, Guy Opperman,
:09:41. > :09:42.also re-elected for the Conservatives in Hexham
:09:43. > :09:57.and Jonathan Wallace for the Liberal Democrats.
:09:58. > :10:04.There has been no change. Sadly we lost my good friend and colleague
:10:05. > :10:08.James Wharton but gained a seat in Middlesbrough South. We would have
:10:09. > :10:12.loved to one Bishop Auckland but the same stage, I look at the seats and
:10:13. > :10:18.the numbers are pretty much the same. I was delighted with the
:10:19. > :10:21.result in Copeland where Trudy Harrison has again been re-elected
:10:22. > :10:25.after her by-election win but we have not made the games we would
:10:26. > :10:30.have liked to have made, whether it be in Darlington or elsewhere.
:10:31. > :10:35.Turnout was good but no landslide, you didn't scoop up those Labour
:10:36. > :10:39.votes. What was pleasing for me was that allied the way democracy united
:10:40. > :10:46.us. We had been through a turbulent month with two terrorist attacks and
:10:47. > :10:51.it was fantastic to see the voter turnout going up in circumstances
:10:52. > :10:53.where we all join together and got behind democracy and the election
:10:54. > :10:57.went off without a hitch on the day and that is the best thing that has
:10:58. > :11:06.happened before. You may be right there. You have pretty much always
:11:07. > :11:10.been behind Jerry Corbin? Yes and in the second leadership election, I
:11:11. > :11:13.backed Jeromy because the membership had backed him overwhelmingly and I
:11:14. > :11:19.believe in the democracy within our party. Therefore there was no need
:11:20. > :11:23.for that second leadership because he had the backing of the member
:11:24. > :11:29.ship. You must be very delighted? I don't think it is about Jeremy
:11:30. > :11:32.Corbyn but the basket he represents. That has had an overwhelming measure
:11:33. > :11:36.of support from the people of the North East and Cumbria. Our messages
:11:37. > :11:42.on health and education, on jobs for the future. Is it about that or the
:11:43. > :11:46.crumbling Ukip thought which has tumbled to massacre in our region? I
:11:47. > :11:51.wouldn't say the increased majorities we have seen for Labour
:11:52. > :11:55.MPs in the region has a tremendous amount to do with the crumbling Ukip
:11:56. > :11:59.thought. We have seen a burgeoning and support the policy basket but we
:12:00. > :12:07.thought that the increased turnout as well as increased majorities. Tim
:12:08. > :12:12.Farron didn't even visit the site of the region during the campaign, did
:12:13. > :12:18.he write off Berwick? Nil. Disappointed that we didn't when it
:12:19. > :12:25.but the party went through such a hammering two years ago that we are
:12:26. > :12:31.into a recovery stage and had the election being in three years rather
:12:32. > :12:37.than now, we would be looking at taking back Berwick. It was 11.2%
:12:38. > :12:41.down? Yes, two years was too short a time to be able to go through the
:12:42. > :12:49.recovery we needed to do so. That said, nationally, we have increased
:12:50. > :12:52.the number of seats but we have got. By four, nationally. Our share of
:12:53. > :12:59.the vote was down a fraction but we held our ground. Look at the top,
:13:00. > :13:06.Tim Farron barely hung on to his old constituency. Yes and the fact that
:13:07. > :13:10.the Ukip thought was going to the Conservatives there was not helping
:13:11. > :13:14.us but you have to remember that was until 2005, a seat, Conservative
:13:15. > :13:18.seat and we have held it in three elections. Them did well in the
:13:19. > :13:26.circumstances but we held it, we won. Ukip, really, what is the point
:13:27. > :13:30.of Ukip right now? From now on in, Ukip is more relevant than ever
:13:31. > :13:35.because of the results. That is not what the voters see full stop
:13:36. > :13:40.Hartlepool, strong support down there initially, 16.5% down.
:13:41. > :13:48.Sunderland, 14.3, you cannot discount those figures. I appreciate
:13:49. > :13:52.that our board has gone down. They have been tactical voting. We did
:13:53. > :13:56.not expect to do well and we didn't do nearly as well as we had hoped
:13:57. > :14:00.for but the result that we have ended up with for Ukip were quite
:14:01. > :14:03.positive. They do give Ukip that bans are believed to get back into
:14:04. > :14:06.the arena. We were maybe Explorer this later.
:14:07. > :14:08.More results around the region and in Cumbria -
:14:09. > :14:10.the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, faced a recount
:14:11. > :14:12.in his Cumbrian seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale.
:14:13. > :14:15.His majority of almost 9,000 two years ago,
:14:16. > :14:20.was reduced by the Conservatives, to just under 800.
:14:21. > :14:22.I dedicate my win tonight to the thousands and
:14:23. > :14:24.thousands of people of
:14:25. > :14:27.Lonsdale who I am honoured to represent in Parliament.
:14:28. > :14:30.I always said from day one 12 years ago, I will
:14:31. > :14:34.be and will always be Westmorland's man in Westminster, never
:14:35. > :14:40.I am astonishingly proud tonight to continue to represent you.
:14:41. > :14:42.It is an absolute dream to do that and an
:14:43. > :14:50.Also in Cumbria, Copeland has voted to stick with a Conservative MP.
:14:51. > :14:55.She took the seat in a by-election just under four months ago.
:14:56. > :14:59.Before that, it had been a safe Labour seat for 80 years.
:15:00. > :15:04.She was elected with a reduced majority of just over 1,600 votes,
:15:05. > :15:12.Counters in Copeland could be forgiven for feeling fatigued.
:15:13. > :15:14.This was the third Parliamentary count
:15:15. > :15:19.This time round, voters in the once Labour stronghold
:15:20. > :15:22.reinforce the Conservatives by-election win.
:15:23. > :15:27.I do hereby declare that Trudy Harrison is duly elected
:15:28. > :15:34.as member of Parliament for the Copeland constituency.
:15:35. > :15:39.It was frustrating for me on the 18th of April to learn of
:15:40. > :15:42.another General Election because I had just spent the last few weeks
:15:43. > :15:45.Down to Westminster on Monday morning.
:15:46. > :15:49.The new build will be my number one priority, making sure
:15:50. > :15:54.If the government needs to step in and that is what I
:15:55. > :15:59.It was doubt over Labour's nuclear policy which was blamed for the seat
:16:00. > :16:02.loss as glum resignation once again set in.
:16:03. > :16:06.The voters unfortunately have been scared into
:16:07. > :16:09.thinking that their jobs and their prosperity
:16:10. > :16:13.For the Lib Dems, with 3% of the vote,
:16:14. > :16:18.I knew what to expect so my expectation was
:16:19. > :16:21.disappointed with the loss of Nick Clegg.
:16:22. > :16:24.For the constituency with a red history, the focus now turns
:16:25. > :16:31.to what the blue future will look like.
:16:32. > :16:39.In Northumberland, Labour's campaign co-ordinator Ian Lavery
:16:40. > :16:46.We mentioned Darlington before, this was the night -- not the night
:16:47. > :16:51.Conservatives have expected? If you lived a couple of years ago and told
:16:52. > :16:57.the Conservatives they would win in Copeland, they would be first or
:16:58. > :17:01.second in every single seat in the North, they would have bitten your
:17:02. > :17:07.hands off but of course expectations were so high going into this
:17:08. > :17:11.campaign. Their poll ratings were stratospheric and they did have high
:17:12. > :17:13.hopes of targeting more than just that Middlesbrough South seat in
:17:14. > :17:18.this part of the world. That may have been part of the problem
:17:19. > :17:21.because I understand resources were diverted from Stockton South into
:17:22. > :17:25.Stockton North in the hope they could overturn the 8,000 majority
:17:26. > :17:29.there. They didn't do it and they lost in Stockton South. About
:17:30. > :17:34.labour, where does this leave the party? There are candidates here
:17:35. > :17:39.like Jenny Chapman and Phil Wilson who were declared independence so
:17:40. > :17:47.they did not want Jeremy Corbyn anywhere near their campaign. I
:17:48. > :17:50.think all will admit that Labour did have a good campaign with Jeremy
:17:51. > :17:55.Corbyn. It is his leadership and he got young people to vote in
:17:56. > :18:00.particular. Look at Newcastle East, City of Durham, high student votes,
:18:01. > :18:01.a big surge in labour but. It is his authority and not Theresa May's that
:18:02. > :18:03.has been enhanced today. In Northumberland, Labour's campaign
:18:04. > :18:06.co-ordinator Ian Lavery increased his support in Wansbeck
:18:07. > :18:09.and after 30 years as Blyth MP, Ronnie Campbell wins again -
:18:10. > :18:13.both delighted at Labour's result, The Conservatives gained
:18:14. > :18:16.as they kept votes too. Anne-Marie Trevelyan in Berwick,
:18:17. > :18:21.and Guy Opperman in Hexham. It was political
:18:22. > :18:24.history in the making. For the first time, all four counts
:18:25. > :18:28.would take place here in Blyth and it was Blyth Valley
:18:29. > :18:31.who declared first. Ronnie Campbell had
:18:32. > :18:35.planned to step down. I'm glad I didn't retire
:18:36. > :18:37.in many ways because I thought I might have had to retire
:18:38. > :18:42.but I fought that argument and won. Then to Wansbeck and for Labour's
:18:43. > :18:46.campaign coordinator, it was a new dawn, a new day and
:18:47. > :18:51.he was feeling good. Six or seven weeks ago,
:18:52. > :18:55.the party were called out to have a General
:18:56. > :18:59.Election by a government who basically called it to try and
:19:00. > :19:03.destroy the Labour Party. It looks very good
:19:04. > :19:07.nationally tonight and I'm delighted that I've been
:19:08. > :19:10.elected for the third time. To the Conservatives,
:19:11. > :19:13.Guy Opperman celebrated his I'm delighted that the people
:19:14. > :19:17.of Hexham have put their trust in me again and at this
:19:18. > :19:20.difficult time, I believe it is As Ukip voters turned
:19:21. > :19:26.away from that party, all four winners welcomed an
:19:27. > :19:30.increase in support with Ann-Marie Trevelyan holding Berwick
:19:31. > :19:35.on a promise to see Brexit through. People of all political colours are
:19:36. > :19:40.vesting their trust in me in large numbers because they wanted to make
:19:41. > :19:43.sure the Brexit referendum result was respected
:19:44. > :19:49.and driven through. Sunderland's been the first
:19:50. > :19:52.to declare in the General Election But last night, Newcastle
:19:53. > :19:56.Central took the crown. Overall turnout in Sunderland's
:19:57. > :20:01.three seats was up on 2015, but the Labour stronghold remained
:20:02. > :20:06.true to the party. 80 sixth form students ran
:20:07. > :20:12.the ballot boxes in for the count but for the first time since
:20:13. > :20:17.1992, Sunderland lost the race to be the country's first declarer with
:20:18. > :20:20.Newcastle Central pipping them to Around ten minutes later,
:20:21. > :20:25.it was announced that Bridget People here have
:20:26. > :20:32.continued to see the living standards fall, wages fall
:20:33. > :20:35.and a real squeeze on local services and it's clear
:20:36. > :20:38.from the result here tonight in Sunderland
:20:39. > :20:40.the people want change. Sunderland's overall
:20:41. > :20:44.turnout rose to 61%. No surprises in the results though,
:20:45. > :20:48.Labour retained all seats. Julie Elliott for
:20:49. > :20:51.Sunderland Central and Sharon Hodgson for Washington
:20:52. > :20:54.and Sunderland West. There was a lot of anger
:20:55. > :20:57.on the doorstep about Theresa May calling the election when she
:20:58. > :21:01.had said so many times that she Scrapping universal free school
:21:02. > :21:05.meals for infants, the winter fuel allowance was met by a lot of anger
:21:06. > :21:09.amongst constituencies across The rate of increase
:21:10. > :21:13.for the Conservative vote was substantially more
:21:14. > :21:15.than the Labour vote and that shows there
:21:16. > :21:17.is an increased trend towards the
:21:18. > :21:40.Conservatives and away from Labour What now is like a more unstable and
:21:41. > :21:49.uncertain future with a hung parliament, something no business
:21:50. > :21:54.here once? Sadly, Theresa May's Campbell has failed abysmally. She
:21:55. > :21:58.has brought this about by her own ears and therefore, I think the
:21:59. > :22:01.campaign we have fought, because we knew that it would be very difficult
:22:02. > :22:05.for Theresa May and the Conservatives to maintain a single
:22:06. > :22:10.issue election but a six-week period and of course the health service,
:22:11. > :22:13.education, tuition fees, jobs and the future. Is this more about the
:22:14. > :22:18.angry remainders who just wanted to be heard? , it was a very diverse
:22:19. > :22:20.set of issues on the doorstep and people were genuinely concerned
:22:21. > :22:28.about what the Conservatives would do with a large majority on things
:22:29. > :22:32.like jobs and the health service and investment and education. Therefore,
:22:33. > :22:36.that all came up but I think also, the Conservatives did shoot
:22:37. > :22:43.themselves in the foot with the dementia attacks. Your reaction on
:22:44. > :22:46.that? Job numbers have been better than they are before. The National
:22:47. > :22:50.Health Service has had more money but into it repeatedly under the
:22:51. > :22:54.Conservatives and the education budget is larger than ever so I
:22:55. > :23:00.reviewed what he is saying. The voters did not buy that, strong and
:23:01. > :23:06.stable must be ringing in your ears today? It is not the result we would
:23:07. > :23:10.have liked to have had but we're still the largest party. When all
:23:11. > :23:16.the results are in, we will be able to maintain a majority, we will have
:23:17. > :23:19.to see where we are. What about Theresa May? I am utterly behind the
:23:20. > :23:24.Prime Minister, getting she has the right person to take us forward.
:23:25. > :23:29.Utterly? Not without a shadow of a doubt. I have worked for her and she
:23:30. > :23:34.is a very strong woman and a good woman. Many of your colleagues are
:23:35. > :23:38.saying she is not up to it. I only can think of one colleague and you
:23:39. > :23:48.know that as well as I do. You mentioned earlier Ukip, you think
:23:49. > :23:51.have a spring in their step? I don't believe this election was about
:23:52. > :23:55.Brexit, it was about domestic issues. People have never been so
:23:56. > :23:59.hard up, they have never been so worried about job security, food
:24:00. > :24:03.banks are at record levels. It was about domestic issues and people
:24:04. > :24:06.feeling lighter in the pocket and having less money to spend on things
:24:07. > :24:11.they need. That is where the Conservatives gambolled and got it
:24:12. > :24:17.wrong. Theresa May has now put the whole Brexit process, timescale and
:24:18. > :24:26.outcome, at risk. That gives Ukip and in road. You don't release have
:24:27. > :24:29.any influence, it is a return to party politics but no influence from
:24:30. > :24:33.the Lib Dems? That is what worries me, that the UK is going down that
:24:34. > :24:39.path, the returning the 2-party politics. That is bad for our region
:24:40. > :24:47.and in many ways, the region is very much a 1-party state because we are
:24:48. > :24:49.being squeezed heavily by a Labour Party which, although represents the
:24:50. > :24:54.majority of people, doesn't represent everybody and we need a
:24:55. > :24:55.change to the voting system to ensure that minority voices are
:24:56. > :24:58.heard. There's more analysis
:24:59. > :25:04.on the BBC News website.