A party must hold 326 parliamentary seats for a majority.
Parties could then club together to form a joint coalition government - as the Tories and Lib Dems did in 2010.
This rare situation - when no party has a majority of seats - is known as a hung parliament.
The Prime Minister held onto her Maidenhead seat with 37,718 votes, while independent candidate Lord Buckethead won just 249.
Mr Corbyn's party claimed Tory scalps in Stockton South and Vale of Clwyd and took Rutherglen & Hamilton West from the SNP, one of a series of reversals for the nationalists following their historic tally of 56 out of 59 seats north of the border in 2015.
This is known as a minority government.
The Democratic Unionist Party, which increased its representation at Westminster from eight to 10, signalled it was ready to discuss working with Tories on issues such as Brexit and keeping the United Kingdom together.
There are 10 more female MPs as a result of Thursday's election, taking female representation in the Commons to a new high.
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The Conservatives now have 308 seats, and are set to win another 10.
The General Election saw Theresa May retain her seat, but also saw her bid to retain a Conservative majority fall short.
That could allow Labour to argue that Mrs May should quit before a certain date if there is clearly an "anti-Tory" majority in the Commons that would inevitably reject her Queen's Speech and support Jeremy Corbyn as PM. The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon has previously said that she would be happy to back up a Corbyn government to help pass laws on a case-by-case basis, though naturally no parties are keen to comment on the possibility of a coalition at this stage.
Despite the Tories topping 42 per cent of the vote share for the first time since 1987, with 22 seats left to declare they were mathematically unable to get a majority of MPs. May and Labour Party head Jeremy Corbyn cast their votes earlier in the day.
But even with their backing that would still only total 314 seats, based on the exit poll. You should see the people who DIDN'T get in!
If no viable administration can be constructed which would be capable of getting its budget and its programme through Parliament, then voters could be asked to return to the polling stations for the third general election in as many years.
It looks like the overall result is set to go right down to the wire - with the next Government not finalised until Friday morning at least.
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