Bethan Nimmo
Political reporter, BBC Oxfordshire

Since the seat was created in 1885 - Banbury has never elected a Labour MP.

That is, until now.

Labour candidate Sean Woodcock - who has lost twice standing in this seat previously - just after 6am heard the magic numbers that confirmed he is the new MP for Banbury.

He unseated former Attorney General Victoria Prentis, in what had previously been considered a very safe Tory seat.

It means Oxfordshire will now send two Labour MPs to parliament - along with what looks like a handful of Liberal Democrats. We are waiting for the Bicester & Woodstock result to see if the Conservatives will have any MPs in the county.

The Lib Dems' Olly Glover has won the Didcot and Wantage constituency.

The previous MP for Didcot, David Johnston, lost by more than 6,000 votes.

The victory means the Lib Dems now hold four seats in Oxfordshire, up from just holding Layla Moran's seat of Oxford West and Abingdon on Thursday.

In Banbury, Labour has won the seat for the first time.

Victoria Prentis, the former attorney general and Banbury MP, has lost her seat to Labour's Sean Woodcock.

Mr Woodcock, the Labour group leader on Cherwell District Council, won 18,468 votes, with Mrs Prentis second with 15,212 votes.

The Lib Dems' Freddie van Mierlo is the new MP for Henley and Thame, beating the Conservatives' Caroline Newton by more than 6,000 votes.

It is a new constituency for this general election - but the previous seat Henley was held by Boris Johnson - before he became prime minister, between 2001 and 2008 - and Tory grandee Michael Heseltine.

Other Labour councillors have been victorious elsewhere.

Former cabinet member Antonia Bance, an Oxford city councillor from 2010 until 2013, has been elected MP for Tipton and Wednesbury in the West Midlands.

Perran Moon, who sat on Cherwell District Council from 2019 until May 2023, is now the MP for Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall.

Two former Oxford city councillors have become Labour MPs.

Tom Hayes, Oxford City Council's former deputy leader, resigned from the authority in March. He beat Conservative Tobias Ellwood in Bournemouth East by about 5,400 votes.

Marie Tidball, who was also another cabinet member and resigned from the council in 2022, is the new MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge in Yorkshire.

She beat Conservative Miriam Cates by about 8,700 votes.

The Lib Dems' Layla Moran has held Oxford West and Abingdon for a third time.

She won about 23,400 votes, with the Conservatives' Vinay Raniga in second place with 8,520 votes and Labour's Stephen Webb in third with 5,981 votes.

Olly Glover has spoken the BBC's Jerome Sale and appears confident he will be confirmed as Didcot and Wantage's MP later this morning.

“I got selected two years ago in June 2022. It’s been a really long journey. If I am fortunate enough to be elected I will feel grateful and excited about the opportunity," Mr Glover said.

“I think the role of a Member of Parliament is unlikely any other. My career has been in railway operations, trying to get trains to run on time, negotiating with trade unions. If I do get elected it’s going to be very different to that, that’s for sure.”

The turnout for the three seats being counted at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon have been announced.

Didcot and Wantage was 68.1%, Oxford West and Abingdon 66.1% and Henley and Thame 72.3%.

The BBC's Chris McHugh has said the declaration for the Witney constituency is not likely until at least 05:00.

The exit poll for the BBC, Sky and ITV shows the Conservatives' Robert Courts is expected to hold the seat - but the Lib Dems have said they are confident of taking it themselves.

Turnout for the Bicester and Woodstock seat, which is expected to be a very close race between the Conservatives' Rupert Harrison and Lib Dem Calum Miller, was 67.8%.

Anneliese Dodds has held Oxford East, which she has represented since 2017.

It is a safe Labour seat and has been won by the party's candidates at every general election since 1987.

Ms Dodds won 19,541 votes, with the Greens' Sushila Dhall second with 5,076 votes and the Conservatives' Louise Brown third with 4,739 votes.

Bethan Nimmo
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford

High Sheriff of Oxfordshire James Macnamara has arrived at Spiceball Leisure Centre in Banbury, in traditional dress.

He's technically the returning officer - in charge of the election process - across the whole of Oxfordshire.

He says though that in reality, the job of returning officer is done by others. Here, the chief executive of Cherwell District Council, Gordon Stewart, is in charge.

But even though his role is ceremonial, the High Sheriff is certainly the only person at the count carrying a sword.

He said: "That was part of the kit that a gentleman would have carried everywhere. I won't be using it."

On his duties this evening, he added: "I'll be reading out the results and that is the beginning and end of my role."

Layla Moran is expected to win Oxford West and Abingdon for the Lib Dems, which she has held since 2017.

Asked by the BBC's Jerome Sale if her party's campaigning has been "frivolous", she said: "I think the results in part speak for themselves.

"We don't get the same coverage as everyone else and also we knew if we wanted to grab headlines we needed to be quite tongue in cheek about it.

"But [leader Ed Davey] was very clear: whilst he does not take himself very seriously, he takes the concerns of voters very seriously."

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Turnout for the Witney seat fell from the previous general election in 2019.

The BBC's Chris McHugh has been told that 67.8% of the electorate voted on Thursday.

That was down from 73.1% in 2019 and 73% in 2017.

Green candidate for the Bicester and Woodstock seat Ian Middleton tells Bethan Nimmo he is tired because he was campaigning in Bristol Central for Carla Denyer, his party's co-leader, on Thursday.

He said: "I thought it was better for me to put our resources and my experience as a door knocker and a campaigner into one of our target seats and that's pretty much the plan for the Green Party nationally: we're targeting constituencies to increase our share in Westminster."

Mr Middleton is an Oxfordshire county and Cherwell district councillor for Kidlington.

Olivia Wilson
Oxfordshire political reporter, BBC News

The count is finally underway at Oxford Town Hall for the Oxford East constituency.

I feel like I’m playing an election game of Where’s Wally? trying to spot some of the candidates here.

There’s a lot of red, including Susan Brown, Labour leader of Oxford City Council. I’ve also spotted Labour councillor Anna Railton as well

But there have been Green rosettes, Lib Dems' too.

Meanwhile, in Abingdon as votes continue to be counted, the BBC's Jem Westgate's come across Liberal Democrat activist and keen gardener Rob Jones.

He has brought some dahlias from his garden to use in place of a rosette.

Martin Eastaugh
BBC News, Oxfordshire

Verification is almost complete at all three counts at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon.

Votes from Didcot and Wantage, Henley and Thame and Oxford West and Abingdon constituencies will be counted this morning.

Counting is about to start for the Didcot and Wantage constituency, although the verification process hasn't entirely finished.

According to Chris McHugh, who's at the Witney count for BBC Oxfordshire, Labour members are gleefully playing Conservative Wipeout Bingo.

Candidates and members have been told to say nothing to the media until the result is declared in West Oxfordshire but they seem to be happy sharing that.

"They're sticking little red pieces of masking tape as each Conservative seat falls," Chris said.

"Even though Labour probably aren't in with a chance of winning this constituency, they're certainly having fun with it."

The seat looks to be a straight fight between Robert Courts, who has been its Conservative MP since 2016, and Lib Dem challenger Charlie Maynard.