They didn’t share in the victory, but they helped to make it happen.
We wish them all many congratulations.
We tally up the changes in seats as the results come in.
We name those who had a good and bad night. The new MP in the photo? Andrea Jenkyns – the woman who beat Ed Balls.
Each of the main parties is trying new techniques, both by choice and out of necessity. Which will work?
Our final pre-election version – complete with the 30 new Tory candidates most likely to make it to the Commons.
It’s a further development in the use of candidates as ground-troops in the battlegrounds.
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Our whistle-stop tour heads to the South East, where the Tories and Labour are fighting it out and two minor parties have everything at stake.
The latest piece in our series on the marginals features some intense battles – including Stockton South.
UKIP look set to hand Labour a string of critical marginals in the close-fought two way battle for this region.
Outnumbered as we were, it could have been a lot worse.
The author describes it as “a portrait of two types of marriage: Geoffrey and Elspeth’s on-going one of 62 years, and Geoffrey and Margaret’s political union of 18”.
Our latest battleground profile explores the West Midlands, where Labour and the Tories are locked in something close to a high-stakes, traditional, two-party fight.
37 Conservative MPs are not seeking re-election.