General Election 2024 LIVE in Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough

We’ll bring you all the news from the count for our North Northamptonshire constituencies throughout the night.

But we’re in now! Here comes our live coverage of the General Election 2024

The exit polls are in, and they are predicting a Labour landslide.

But what does that mean for our constituencies?

KETTERING: The polls are saying it’s too close to call and are predicting a 73 per cent change of a Labour gain

CORBY: The exit poll is giving a 99 per cent change of a Labour gain

WELLINGBOROUGH: It’s too close to call in Wellingborough, but Labour will be buoyed by the 75 per cent chance of a win that the polls are predicting.

One local Tory has just told us

We’ve just spoken to Phil Sawford, the last Labour MP for Kettering who lost his seat in 2005. He says Rosie Wrighting would make a fantastic MP but that it’s too close to call.

He said: “I know better than to try and predict a bit more than most but I think it will be close. I have worked on campaigns with candidates up and down the country and Rosie is exceptional...she would be a fantastic representative for our community.”

NNC Chief Executive Adele’s overseeing the proceedings tonight. She says staff here have been working their socks off since 5.30am

There are 203 boxes of ballots due from across three constituencies and we’re expecting the final box get here from Bozeat about midnight.

There’s been a lot of Covid around and 30 staff unfortunately dropped out of the count yesterday, so as well as drafting in extra staff, Adele was out at 6am delivering a ballot box at Ashley.

Emily Fedorowycz, the Green candidate for Kettering, tells us she’s feeling ‘very, very good’ and that it’s going to be close. They’ve previously said they believe they can pull of a surprise ‘out of nowhere’.

The bookies’ odds on a Green win have shortened from 100/1 to as short as 18/1 in some places - and Oddschecker told us that 86% of all bets placed on Kettering have been on a Green win.

Ms Fedorowycz said: “It really does show that things have significantly and it will be tight. From the feedback we are getting it’s going to be incredibly close. The big thing is going to be how many people have been scared by the tactical voting messaging.”

We’re so pleased to be here to bring you all the proceedings throughout the night. Our reporters have loved meeting so many of you over the past few weeks and we hope you’ll stay with us till the small hours.

From left: Sam Wildman, Billy Carter, Steph Weaver, Kate Cronin, Callum Faulds and Ali Bagley

We’ve just spoken to Kettering independent candidate Jim Hakewill, who stood here in 2019 and got just over 1,600 votes.

He said: “I have never known an election in 40 years of campaigning where so many people on the doorstep have said they are undecided and a significant proportion who have said they just won’t vote.

“Today I have visited around 15 polling stations and even in rural areas there’s a really good sign of turnout.

“My earnest hope is to get my deposit returned. Now the election is over, if I do get 5% I will have a party.”

This is Beanfield Community Centre this afternoon, with voters queuing out of the door.

We’ve been told to expect the first results here at 3am but, to be honest, it’ll likely be later than that. We don’t think we’re getting any shut-eye until mid-morning tomorrow..