Farage and Reform delighted
Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, Transport Secretary Mark Harper, Attorney General Victoria Prentis and veterans minister Johnny Mercer lost to Labour.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held on to his seat as an independent.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage won a Commons seat at his eighth attempt and promised his party would “stun all of you” as it picked up four Commons seats.
The Greens also picked up four seats.
Labour has exceeded 400 Commons seats, with the Conservatives falling well below their previous low of 156 MPS set in 1906.
Ms Mordaunt, who was likely to have been a leadership contender if she had won in Portsmouth North, said her party had taken a “battering because it failed to honour the trust that people had placed in it”.
Nigel Farage won a UK parliamentary seat at his eighth attempt and hailed a “huge” general election result for Reform UK.
The party leader was declared MP for Clacton shortly after Lee Anderson became Reform’s first MP of the night when he won his seat in Ashfield.
Reform’s party chairman Richard Tice won Boston and Skegness, beating the Conservatives to secure his party’s fourth seat of the night.
Earlier, businessman and former Southampton FC chairman Rupert Lowe won Great Yarmouth, also from the Tories.
Mr Farage said in a speech at the election count: “There is a massive gap on the centre-right of British politics and my job is to fill it.”
He told reporters Reform will be a “nonracist, non-sectarian” party and this election is the “beginning of the end” for the Tory party.
“This is just the first step. I set out with a goal to win millions of votes, to get a bridgehead in Parliament and that’s what we’ve done so I’m very pleased,” he added.
He said the Reform party would move forward “very rapidly”.
He said: “I’ve got to professionalise it, I’ve got to democratise it, I’ve got to get rid of a few idiots that found it too easy to get on board. They will all go, they will all go.”