General Election results 2024: Live Blog as Peterborough heads to the polls

General Election count at Kingsgate Conference Centre.General Election count at Kingsgate Conference Centre.
General Election count at Kingsgate Conference Centre.
Voting is taking place today (July 4) in the General Election.

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

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

Result coming now!

The NW Cambs result is about to be declared

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

Candidates for Peterborough have been called back to the count room to hear the results.

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.

Full recount called in NW Cambs

NW Cambs candidates are discussing rejected ballots with the returning officer now.

We believe the recount was called by Paul Bristow

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.

Full recount of all parties in Peterborough called

At gone 3am, Bristow makes his entrance

Paul Bristow has arrived and has strided over to the table where the candidates are discussing the ballots.

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.

Peterborough candidates called to the stage to go through rejected votes