General Election 2010
As the stories come in from the 16 Sussex counts, we'll keep you up to date here
07.30
All the results are in - Sussex has 13 Conservative MPs, 2 Lib Dems, 0 Labour and memorably, 1 Green
07.07
Peter Bottomley retains Worthing West
06.55
Tim Loughton retains East Worthing
06.20
Francis Maude retains Horsham - just the Worthing seats to go now
05.55
The Greens have their first ever MP! Caroline Lucas wins Brighton Pavilion
05.39
Nicholas Soames wins Mid Sussex for the Tories
05.35
Tories take Brighton Kemp Town, Simon Kirby is the new MP
05.20
At last a result - Mike Weatherley has won Hove for the Tories - a gain from Labour
04.45
It's all gone quiet, 8 of the 16 Sussex constituencies still have to declare and there's no sign of any news
04.07
Conservatives hold Chichester
04.03
Conservatives hold Wealden
03.34
Equalities Minister Michael Foster loses at Hastings & Rye
03.30
Conservative hold Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
03.20
Conservatives win Crawley
03.07
Norman Baker holds Lewes for Lib Dems
02.54
Greg Barker holds Bexhill and Battle for Conservatives
02.46
First official result is in Lib Dems win Eastbourne from Conservatives. Stephen Lloyd is MP
02.35
Reports from Eastbourne suggest that the Lib Dems may have taken it from the Conservatives
02.21
Still no Sussex results in. We're told the delay in Hove is due to counting the postal votes
01.40
Brighton Pavilion turnout 67.8% up 3.8%
01.30
It's revealed Star Wars and Withnail and I actor, Ralph Brown is the Press Officer for Caroline Lucas, who's hoping to win Brighton Pavilion for the Greens
01.04
Turn out at Brighton Kemp town is 62.2 % (up 2% on 2005)
00.52
Turnout at Hove is 65.1% (up 1)
00.50
Strong rumours that Greens will win Brighton Pavilion
00.26
The first Sussex results are due around 2am, with all 16 completed by 4am. The ones that will be closest watched are Crawley, where Labour has a majority of just 37 votes and the three Brighton & Hove seats which are all Labour but are being targeted by the Conservatives. The Greens have high hopes of winning Brighton Pavilion