The UK General Election 2017 is just a few days away when the nation will go to the polls to pick a new government.
Brits can cast their vote between 7am and 10pm on Thursday, June 8 after which results will be counted throughout the night, with the winner expected to be declared in the early hours of Friday, June 9.
The Daily Telegraph will be publishing all the results as they emerge, so check back here to follow the action live.
At a glance | General election timings
Thursday 8 June
7am:Polling stations open
10pm:Polls close. Exit polls expected
11pm:First result expected. Houghton and Sunderland South has declared first at the last five elections
Friday 9 June
12am:Early results from the North East, including Durham and Sunderland
1am:First marginal seat of Nuneaton in Warwickshire expected to declare. Cameron said he knew the Tories had won when this seat declared in 2015
1.30am:Vale of Clwyd result expected. The Tories won the North Wales swing seat by just 237 votes in 2015
2am:Declarations start to come in from across the country
2.30am:Jeremy Corbyn's Islington North constituency declares and the result is expected from City of Chester, where Labour's majority is 93
3am:Wave of results announced
4am:Theresa May's constituency in Maidenhead, Berkshire, declares
5am:Constituency results for Green Party MP Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavilion and UKIP leader Paul Nuttall in Boston and Skegness
6am:Tim Farron likely to be the last party leader to learn if he has won his North West coastal seat of Morecambe and Lunesdale
Morning:The leader of the winning party traditionally waits for the leader of the losing party to concede defeat before claiming victory
1pm:St Ives in Cornwall is traditionally the last seat to declare
Tuesday 13 June
Daytime:Parliament expect to return to vote for the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons
What time are the exit polls?
The exit poll will be published at 10pm on Thursday and will give an early indication of the result based on a survey of how people voted.
The results of the past four elections have all been correctly predicted by the exit polls.
Dating back from 2001, the polls have accurately predicted the standing of the leading parties - but they have had varying degrees of success in estimating the number of seats won.
Who will be first with the results?
For the past six general elections, Sunderland has won the counting race to declare its election results thanks to its super-efficient counting process.
In 2015, Labour-led Houghton and Sunderland South announced its results at 22:48 BST - just 48 minutes after the polls closed and this year is expected to be no different.
All eyes will be on the north east to see how Labour leader Corbyn fares in this safe Labour seat, where Bridget Phillipson took 21,218 votes in the election two years ago, followed by UKIP in second place with 8,280 votes.
What time will we know the winner?
Broadcasters and newspapers will always "call" the election before the winner is declared officially, so keep an eye on the Telegraph throughout the night for the latest headlines. This is because there sometimes comes a point when no other party can win, and remaining safe seats left to declare are guaranteed.
This is likely to be in the early hours of the morning if there's a clear victory and one party gets that all important House of Commons majority of 326 seats.
In 2015, David Cameron accepted victory in his Witney constituency, at 5:46am, saying: "This is clearly a very strong night for the Conservative Party. We've had a positive response to a positive campaign."
Pollsters still give Prime Minister Theresa May a clear lead, although the gap has been closing. CREDIT: PA
Who is expected to win?
At the start of the campaign some polls had the Tories at almost double the vote share of the Labour Party, indicating the most likely outcome would be a landslide victory that would increase Prime Minister Theresa May's current working majority of 17 in the House of Commons.
However, Mrs May's lead has dropped from 17.8 points to below 10 in our poll tracker since she called the election on April 18. This is a rolling daily average of the last eight polls.
While the pollsters still give the Tories a clear lead, the party's dwindling advantage will be a concern to party headquarters, and a boost to rivals.
Some experts had estimated that the Tories would take as many as 56 seats from Labour, leaving them with a 200-seat lead over the official opposition party, aided by Ukip's apparent collapse in popular support over recent weeks.
Remind me what happened in 2015
After 2015's General Election, David Cameron's Conservative Party emerged victorious - winning 331 seats, which was enough to form a majority government.
A ruthless strategy of targeting Lib Dem seats meant that the Tories made a net gain of 24 seats - leaving Nick Clegg with just eight.
Labour were the second largest party, although their loss of seats led to the resignation of Ed Miliband. Despite their vote share increasing marginally, the loss of almost all of their Scottish constituencies to the SNP meant that the party had a net loss of 26 seats.
The Tories had the largest vote share of any party, claiming 11.3m votes - 36.9 per cent of the total, enough to claim over half the seats in Parliament.
Labour's vote share increased by 1.5 points to 30.4 per cent (9.3m votes) in the election, while UKIP came in third in terms of votes, winning 12.6 per cent (3.9m votes) of the country's vote.
Significant regional differences emerged after the vote in 2015, with Scotland immediately clear due to the almost universal support of the SNP - who claimed all but three Scottish constituencies.
Labour were almost completely wiped out in the south of England, holding onto just a few urban constituencies and leaving swathes of blue across the country.
Ed Miliband's party did, however, succeed in winning in London and parts of the North of England, the Midlands and Wales - where the majority of the party's seats now reside.
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