Nigel Farage's is predicted to win 13 seats in today's - in a huge exit poll shock. Opinion polls in the run up to the election suggested Mr Farage's party might win a handful of seats - three to five at most. But exit polls suggest the right-wing party could defy expectations.
And pollster Survation's final seat-by-seat mega-poll matched the exit poll - suggesting Reform would take a string of seats from the Tories and make inroads against . Among the seats expected to fall to Reform UK include Barnsley South and Barnsley North, as well as Hartlepool. With the first two actual results in, Reform held strong second places in both Sunderland South and Blyth and Ashington.
Mr Farage himself is predicted to win in Clacton - in his eighth tilt at a seat in the Commons. Less clear are the results in Ashfield, where Reform's only sitting MP Lee Anderson is defending his seat - and where the result remains too close to predict. Former Party leader Richard Tice was also uncertain of winning his target seat of Boston and Skegness.
Nigel Farage's electoral agent Peter Harris has said the Reform UK leader is "up for the challenge" of facing up to a Labour government, and the exit poll prediction of 13 seats for Reform is "hugely exciting". Mr Harris, a Reform UK councillor, told the PA news agency: "We were always hoping for multiple seats, 13 - I'd like even more than that, really. So I think we wait and see once all the votes are counted we'll see how many we've actually got, but yeah.