General Election results 2024: Live Blog as Peterborough heads to the polls
Your votes will decide who will be the new MPs for the Peterborough and North West Cambridgeshire constituencies.
Polls close at 10pm and the Peterborough Telegraph will be bringing you coverage throughout the night.
Follow all of the developments below.
General Election 2024- Live updates in Peterborough
Key Events
- Andrew Pakes wins Peterborough
- Sam Carling wins North West Cambridgeshire
That's a wrap
Thank you to everyone for reading and following along with us on what has been a crazy night!
Be sure to keep an eye on the Peterborough Telegraph website for plenty more election reaction and coverage.
North West Cambridgeshire result
Shailesh Vara (Conservatives) 14,746
Sam Carling (Labour) 14,785
Elliot Tong (Green) 2,960
Bridget Smith (Lib Dem) 3,192
James Sidlow (Reform) 8,741
Still counting...
There are still a couple of tables being counting in the North West Cambridgeshire vote.
Peterborough Result
Andrew Pakes (Labour) 13,418
Paul Bristow (Conservative) 13,300
Nicola Day (Green) 2,542
Nick Sandford (Lib Dem) 1,746
Sue Morris (Reform) 5,379
Tom Rogers (Christian Peoples Alliance) 225
Amjad Hussain (Workers Party of Britain) 5,051
Zahid Khan (Independent) 211
We have action!
Candidates for Peterborough have been called back to the count room to hear the results.
NW Cambs recount
We’re hearing that there was just 23 votes in the NW Cambs result.
Labour are believed to have called the recount after such a close result with incumbent Shailesh Vara
A long night still
We’re not going to bed anytime soon.
We’ll let you know anything on recounts as soon as we hear, each recount is expected to take around an hour.
Update on NW Cambs
Last update on NW Cambs was that the counting was still going on.
The result of that can be declared while the recount is going on.
Paul Bristow has arrived and has strided over to the table where the candidates are discussing the ballots.
It's tight!
A bit of uncertainty what is going on at the moment, it appears as their could be as few as 97 votes between Paul Bristow and Andrew Pakes, in the Labour man’s favour.