Kelly Tolhurst has been re-elected as the MP for Rochester & Strood, with an increased majority.

The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Teresa Murray by 17,072 votes, 7,222 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.

Graham Colley of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Sonia Hyner came fourth.

Voter turnout was down by 1.7 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 52,000 people, 63.3% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Three of the six candidates, Sonia Hyner (Green), Roy Freshwater (UKIP) and Chris Spalding (independent) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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