As the polls open, betters are putting big money on whether the Tories will bring home an overall majority.
In that scenario, Theresa May, as the incumbant Prime Minister, would have the first opportunity to try and form a coalition.
Meanwhile, Lib Dem warhorse Sir Vince Cable has swept back into his former Twickenham seat with 34,969 votes.
As the country prepared to decide who will be voted into 10 Downing Street, ten hopefuls were hoping to be named as South Tyneside's two MPs for the South Shields and Jarrow constituencies, both widely regarded as being safe Labour seats.
The poll suggested the Conservatives would be the biggest party, winning 314 seats but without securing a majority.
The Liberal Democrat first won the seat of East Dunbartonshire from Labour in 2005 at the age of 25 - at the same time becoming the first MP to have been born in the 1980s.
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Osbourne said that he can not see the Lib Dems going into another coalition with the Conservative Party as "They were badly burnt last time", besides "they would want to commit to a second referendum".
Sir Menzies Campbell said he would be "astonished" if the current leader, Tim Farron, joined with the Tories for a second coalition, or formed a "progressive alliance" with Labour. "We've had our fingers burned by coalition, I don't need to tell you that", he told the BBC.
He said that Theresa May had made her position on pursuing a hard Brexit clear, adding: "How could Tim Farron possibly ally himself with that? He [could not] take the party with him, nor any of the over 100,000 membership".
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The Cabinet Office minister and son of former agriculture minister John Gummer - who had been defending a 3,733 majority - lost the seat to Labour's Sandy Martin.
The party also pledged to put a penny on income tax to fund the NHS and to legalise cannabis.
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