Voters have gone to the polls across the country to cast their ballots in the General Election.
Theresa May called the snap poll in April, with the Prime Minister insisting an election was necessary to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations.
Barking candidates (2015 result: Labour)
Shannon Butterfield – Green Party
Noel Falvey – Independent
Roger Edwin Gravett – Ukip
Margaret Hodge – Labour
Pauline Pearce – Liberal Democrats
Minesh Talati – Conservative
The PM's announcement was backed overwhelmingly in the House of Commons by MPs who had to vote for it in order for the election to go ahead.
For a party to be able to form a Government and its leader to become Prime Minister, it needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons – 326. The party that wins the second largest number of seats becomes the main opposition party and its leader the ‘leader of the opposition’.
You can read the Evening Standard’s list of candidates for all the London constituencies here.
Barking
Labour hold
LAB Margaret Hodge 32319
CON Minesh Talati 10711
LD Pauline Pearce 599
GRN Shannon Butterfield 724
UKIP Roger Gravett 3031
IND Noel Falvey 295
Majority
Interactive map: London election results
