Thanks to the way in which the UK's electoral system works, votes are not the ultimate prize in the General Election - it's seats.

Each of the 650 seats in Parliament relates to a constituency in the country, with each being won by a straight race between candidates in that area.

This is known as the First Past the Post system, where the winning candidate only has to receive one more vote than the person in second-place.

Because of this fact, there can be massive discrepancies in the vote share and seat share for each party. For example, the Conservative Party won 48.9 per cent of the seats in Parliament with 42.5 of the national vote.

It also means that, despite the national vote, had Theresa May won a couple more hundred votes across a handful of constituencies, she would have retained her majority in Parliament.