GE2019 | LIVE: General Election - Birmingham results & updates

It’s Election Day across the UK as the population votes for a government. Birmingham’s constituency results will be coming in through at the ICC in the city centre, where a dedicated hall has been set up and is ready to go!

We’re here and sharing the latest updates and results as they come in, along with the latest photos, interviews and video. Keep checking below for the latest news from Birmingham’s General Election count.

4.15am | In a surprise upset for Labour, Gary Sambrook is the newly elected Conservative MP for #Birmingham Northfield, taking the parliamentary seat from Labour’s Richard Burden.

4.00am | Birmingham HALL GREEN result.

Ali (Lab) 35,889
Cox (Green) 818
Cuckston (Brex) 877
Godsiff (Ind) 4,273
I. Knowles (Lib Dem) 3,673
O’Donnell (Con) 7,381
Turnout 66.13%

Labour HOLD.

3.50am | Birmingham YARDLEY result.

Garghan (Green) 579
Garrington (Con) 12,720
Harmer (Lib Dem) 3,754
McKenna (Brex) 2,246
Phillips (Lab) 23,379
Turnout 57.27%

Labour HOLD.

3.45am | Birmingham HODGE HILL result.

Byrne (Lab) 35,397
Dagnan (Brex) 1,519
Johani (Christian Peoples Alliance) 257
McKears (Green) 328
Rafiq (Lib Dem) 760
Sidhu (Con) 6,742
Turnout 57.64%

Labour HOLD.

3.40am | Birmingham NORTHFIELD result.

Burden (Lab) 18,317
Lowry (UKIP) 254
Masters (Green) 954
Rowe (Brex) 1,655
Sambrook (Con) 19,957
Scott (Lib Dem) 1,961
Turnout 58.68%

Con GAIN.

3.30am | Birmingham PERRY BARR result.

Braich (Yeshua) 148
Dennis (Green) 845
Jerome (Lib Dem) 1,901
K. Mahmood (Lab) 26,594
Shamji (Con) 11,277
Willcox (Brex) 1,382
Turnout 58.69%

Labour HOLD.

3.25am | Birmingham EDGBASTON result.

Gill (Lab) 21,217
Green (Lib Dem) 3,349
Simpson (Green) 1,112
Wilks (Brex) 1,047
Yip (Con) 15,603
Turnout 61.7%

Labour HOLD.

3.20am | Birmingham LADYWOOD result.

Dargue (Lib Dem) 2,228
A. Garcarz (Brex) 831
S. Mahmood (Lab) 33,355
Nettle (Green) 931
Noone (Con) 4,773
Turnout 56.42%

Labour HOLD.

Birmingham SUTTON COLDFIELD result.

Auton (Green) 2,031
D. Knowles (Lab) 12,332
Mitchell (Con) 31,604
Wilkinson (Lib Dem) 6,358
Turnout 69.61%

Conservative HOLD.

3.15am | Birmingham ERDINGTON result:

Alden (Con) 14,119
Dromey (Lab) 17,720
W. Garcarz (Brex) 1,441
Grant (Green) 648
Holtom (Lib Dem) 1,301
Turnout 53.40%

Labour HOLD.

3.00am | The first Birmingham results of the night are in:

Birmingham SELLY OAK result:

Campbell (Con) 15,300
McCabe (Lab) 27,714
Peacock (Green) 1,848
Radcliffe (Lib Dem) 3,169
Tawonezvi (Brex) 1,436
Turnout 60.03%

Labour HOLD.

Labour’s Steve McCabe re-elected MP. Expect the rest in fast succession.

2.00am | Birmingham Yardley MP candidate Jess Phillips is swamped by press at the Birmingham vote count. Responding to exit polls, she said: “No one trusted what Jeremy Corbyn promised”.

Jess Phillips speaks to the press at the Birmingham ICC

1.55pm | West Midlands Mayoral candidate Salma Yaqoob watching observing at the Birmingham General Election vote count.

West Midlands Mayoral candidate Salma Yaqoob at the Birmingham General Election vote count

1.45am | Brexit’s Birmingham Northfield MP candidate Keith Rowe (formerly UKIP) doesn’t think he’ll win the seat but told us he thinks it the constituency result will be very close between Labour and Conservative.

1.35am | Birmingham Perry Barr MP candidate Khalid Mahmood is “despondent” about the exit polls and the likelihood of a Labour government. He thinks it’s time for a new Labour Party leader.

1.30am | Labour’s Birmingham Perry Barr MP candidate speaks to the press at the ICC. He told I Am Birmingham that “ultimately there probably will be a Conservative government”.

Khalid Mahmood being interviewed at the ICC during the General Election vote count

1.15pm | I Am Birmingham reporter Paul Stringer chats to Terri-Anne Coope on Switch Radio about the mood at the Birmingham vote count so far.

1:00am | Vote counting continues. There’s rumours of Northfield, Edgbaston and Erdington having some surprise results, but no results or confirmation as yet.

Labour's candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster at the General Election count in Birmingham — Labour’s candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster at the General Election count in Birmingham

Birmingham Northfield Labour councillor Olly Armstrong watches over the General Election count at the ICC

12.00am | The vote count is ongoing but no results announced as yet.

General Election 2019 vote count at the ICC in Birmingham

11.30pm | The vote count continues in Birmingham as all ballot boxes are in.

An observer watches over the General Election vote count at the ICC in Birmingham

A Liberal Democrats observer watches over the vote count in Birmingham

Observers from political parties at the vote count in Birmingham

Votes being counted at the ICC in Birmingham

Ballot boxes coming in as vote counting begins at the ICC in Birmingham

11.10pm | Vote counting is underway in Birmingham as ballot boxes are still bring brought in.

Ballot boxes being counted in Birmingham for General Election 2019

11.05pm | Ballot boxes have begun slowly arriving into the hall at the ICC.

Ballot boxes arriving at The ICC in Birmingham

General Election 2019 ballot boxes arrive at the ICC in Birmingham

Ballot boxes begin arriving and being counted at the ICC in Birmingham

10.45pm | Representatives from different political parties arriving at the General Election 2019 count at the ICC in Birmingham.

Representatives from different political parties arriving to observe the General Election 2019 count at the ICC in Birmingham

10.25pm | We’re all set up as counting tables are now near filled with vote counters ahead of the ballot boxes coming in.

The General Election results voting tables at the ICC in Birmingham

10.10pm | National and local press and media have been setting up and waiting for hours ahead of the results slowly coming in for Birmingham’s ten constituencies:

Edgbaston
Erdington
Hall Green
Hodge Hill
Ladywood
Northfield
Perry Barr
Selly Oak
Sutton Coldfield
Yardley

Press and media teams set up at the ICC Birmingham ahead of General Election 2019 results coming in

10.05pm | General Election 2019 exit poll results predict a Conservative majority.

Conservatives – 368
Labour – 191
Liberal Democrats – 13
SNP – 55
Green – 1
Other – 22

10.00pm | Polling stations have closed. Exit polls are expected shortly.

It's Election Day in the UK with counting of votes beginning once polls close at 10pm — It’s Election Day in the UK with counting of votes beginning once polls close at 10pm

9.50pm | National and local press outlet are all set up at the ICC ahead of the city’s official election count which begins very soon.

Postal votes are all ready for counting at the ICC in Birmingham

Postal vote counting has already begun at the ICC but votes from [polling stations will be coming in shortly — Postal votes are being prepared for counting at the ICC but votes from polling stations will be coming in shortly

9.30pm | Here’s Deputy (Acting) Returning Officer Clive Heaphy, on the left with a fellow official at the ICC in Birmingham ahead of the official vote count.