After the most stunning election in recent history, Guardian reporters are writing from four key constituencies to make sense of the results. In a former coalfield seat, Helen Pidd and photographer Christopher Thomond meet voters who bucked the national trend by deserting Labour

After the most stunning election in recent history, Guardian reporters are writing from four key constituencies to make sense of the results. In Canterbury, Harriet Sherwood and photographer Martin Godwin find renewed enthusiasm for Labour in a previous Tory stronghold

After the most stunning election in recent history, Guardian reporters are writing from four key constituencies to make sense of the results. In Moray, Severin Carrell and photographer Murdo MacLeod find palpable antipathy towards the SNP and little appetite for a second Scottish independence vote