The Conservative Party is left with just one seat in the North East region following its historic landslide defeat by Labour. Reform UK surged, pushing the Conservatives into third place overall in the region.
Nationally at time of writing, Labour had won 412 seats, an increase of 214, Conservatives 121 (down 251) and the Liberal Democrats 71 (an increase 63). Reform UK had won four including party leader Nigel Farage in Clacton.
Table 1 North East results
| CONSTITUENCY | Lab (%) | Con (%) | LibDem (%) | Reform UK (%) | Green (%) |
| Bishop Auckland | 42.1 | 25.6 | 3.4 | 23.4 | 4.6 |
| Blaydon & Consett | 50.1 | 14.3 | 5.4 | 23.7 | 6.1 |
| Blyth & Ashington | 49.6 | 15.2 | 3.6 | 26.9 | 4.9 |
| Cramlington & Killingworth | 49.1 | 18.9 | 4.2 | 20.8 | 4.7 |
| Darlington | 39.2 | 33.8 | 4.1 | 16.2 | 6.7 |
| North Durham | 39.9 | 15.6 | 10.1 | 25.7 | 5.7 |
| City of Durham | 47.1 | 12.9 | 14.6 | 18.2 | 6.9 |
| Easington | 48.9 | 10.9 | 2.4 | 29.8 | 3.4 |
| Gateshead Central & Whickham | 45.4 | 11.5 | 12.4 | 21.4 | 8 |
| Hartlepool | 46.2 | 21.9 | 1.6 | 24.5 | 2.4 |
| Hexham | 46.3 | 39.1 | 4.6 | 4.8 | |
| Houghton & Sunderland South | 47.1 | 13.8 | 5.7 | 29.2 | 4.3 |
| Jarrow & Gateshead East | 51.3 | 9.1 | 4.7 | 26.9 | 6.5 |
| Middlesbrough & Thornaby East | 47.2 | 17.9 | 3 | 20.5 | 4.4 |
| Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland | 43.3 | 42.7 | 5.3 | 3.8 | |
| Newcastle Central & West | 45.6 | 10.2 | 4.7 | 18.9 | 7.8 |
| Newcastle East & Wallsend | 50.1 | 8.3 | 7 | 19.8 | 12.4 |
| Newcastle North | 50.3 | 13.7 | 12.2 | 12.2 | 10.4 |
| Newton Aycliffe & Spennymoor | 46.2 | 20.6 | 3.7 | 24 | 4.3 |
| North Northumberland | 36.6 | 26.2 | 10.6 | 15.7 | 3.6 |
| Redcar | 41 | 32.3 | 4 | 18.9 | 3.3 |
| South Shields | 41.1 | 11.2 | 3.8 | 23 | 14.8 |
| Stockton North | 45.8 | 21.5 | 3 | 24.6 | 5.1 |
| Stockton West | 37.5 | 41.9 | 2.5 | 14.1 | 3 |
| Sunderland Central | 42.2 | 14.3 | 9 | 27 | 7.5 |
| Tynemouth | 50.6 | 18.7 | 5.6 | 15.3 | 7.4 |
| Washington & Gateshead South | 47.8 | 12.6 | 4.3 | 29.1 | 4.6 |
Source: The Guardian
The historic Tory wipe-out after 14 years in power saw many high-profile figures lose their seats. They include former Prime Minister Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt, Chief Whip Simon Hart and prominent Brexiteers Steve Baker and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Possible contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party, assuming Rishi Sunak resigns, who held their seats include Jeremy Hunt, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat.
The Liberal Democrats were celebrating their best performance for many years, with 71 seats. But it was a bad night for the Scottish National Party, which saw its Westminster strength reduced by 37 seats to nine, with one Scottish seat still to declare. Plaid Cymry doubled its representation to four seats and the Green Party gained three, also to four.
North East region
The only North East constituency retained by the Conservatives is Stockton West – part of Tees Valley Mayor Lord Ben Houchen’s home patch. Conservative MPs who lost their seats in the region are Anne-Marie Trevelyan in North Northumberland, Guy Opperman in Hexham, Ian Levy in Cramlington & Killingworth, Paul Howell in Newton Aycliffe & Spennymoor, Peter Gibson in Darlington, Houchen ally Sir Simon Clarke in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, Jacob Young in Redcar and Jill Mortimer in Hartlepool. Dehenna Davison stood down in Bishop Auckland.
Richard Holden, Conservative Party chair, who fought Basildon and Billericay this time following the disappearance of his North West Durham seat under new constituency boundaries, held his new seat by a whisker.
Reform UK is now the North East’s second party by vote share, though it did not win any seats. It came second in 18 of the region’s 27 constituencies, failing only in Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Newcastle North, North Northumberland, Redcar, Stockton West and Tynemouth; it did not contest Hexham or Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland.
Overall in the region Labour won 45.5% of votes, followed by Reform UK with 21.9%, Conservatives with 19.8%, Greens with 6.0% and Liberal Democrats with 5.8%.
Sources: BBC, The Guardian.
