Newport West By-election as it happened - BBC News
The story of the Newport West parliamentary by-election count where Ruth Jones held the seat for Labour.
This is a good hold for Labour and Ruth Jones will be pleased to be heading for Westminster with a majority of nearly two thousand at a time of such unpredictability.

The Conservatives will be pleased to have held off the UKIP challenge for second place when the UK government is under such pressure over Brexit.

But UKIP is taking encouragement from a vote share of more than 8 per cent, which would be their base line for keeping a presence in the Senedd at the next Welsh Assembly elections.

What happened in this by-election should not be taken as a barometer for for future elections - politics is a rollercoaster right now.

Ruth Jones will need to fasten her seat belt.