Tories win Hastings
Ms Rudd won 20,468 votes, 41.1 per cent of the vote.
Despite lots of talk about the Nick Clegg effect, Nick Perry and the Liberal Democrats won 7,825, or 15.7 per cent.
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Hide AdTony Smith of UKIP came fourth with 1,397 votes, just ahead of Nick Prince and the BNP who won 1,310 votes (2.8 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively).
Rod Bridger's English Democrats came in sixth with 339 votes, or 0.7 per cent.
An emotional Ms Rudd said: "The people of Hastings and Rye have voted for change, and I am in no doubt who I work for, I work for all the people of this constituency."