Green party quadruples its number of Commons seats to four

Green co-leader Carla Denyer, who has unseated Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire in Bristol Central. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

The Greens have quadrupled their representation in the Commons after the party took three new seats, one from Labour and two from the Conservatives, and held their existing Brighton Pavilion constituency.

In one of the bigger surprises of election night, the Greens expanded their representation beyond their usual urban, Labour-facing heartlands, also taking two mainly rural seats from Conservative competition.