The election is over with the Conservatives storming to a rather unexpected triumph.

Across south west London and north Surrey, the main stories were the three Liberal Democrat cabinet members wiped out, and their colleague Tom Brake clawing on to be the last Lib Dem in London.

Gavin Barwell's gruelling and emotional battle to defeat Sarah Jones was another key background.

So, as the electoral map shows, things are now pretty blue.

But there's more to this story.

We've number crunched (below the map) to show you exactly how many people voted Tory in SW London and north Surrey, how big the Lib Dem collapse was and which other parties or candidates had a hidden success story on the night.

Plus we've got a calculation on the 'Anyone But Tory' vote - the people who will vote tactically for almost anyone but a Conservative - and how it fared in May 2015.

Which MPs would still have their seats if they had harnessed the ABT vote?

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First off - the Conservative vote. Of the nearly 1m people who voted in this election across the region, 454,991 voted Tory, an increase of 11 percent in 2010. Surrey has only ever had one non-Conservative MP since 1945 and she only lasted five years.

Unsurprisingly well-to-do Esher and Walton had the most Conservative voters. It would take a revolution to oust Dominic Raab.

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(full chart at the bottom of the article)

Compare that to the Liberal Democrat vote, which was 136,958 this year.

Persuading that many people to vote for you might not sound bad. But they got 256,927 votes in the region in 2010. So, it's a massive drop - almost by half.

Their biggest base was in Twickenham - and it wasn't enough to save Vince Cable.

In the main Conservative/Labour race in Croydon Central hardly anyone bothered to vote Lib Dem.

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On to the Labour party - stronger in the more central London boroughs and Mitcham & Morden - but you might think with little support elsewhere in the leafier boroughs.

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Actually Labour saw a massive swing in votes - bigger than the Conservative party's swing in fact - increasing their number of votes by a third.

They overtook the Liberal Democrats as the second most popular party in SW London and north Surrey.

But it didn't see them return a single more MP in our region - although they had targeted Conservative-held Battersea, and Sadiq Khan's seat in Tooting.

Some of the big increases happened in constituencies already held by Labour, like Croydon North. Steve Reed got more votes - but with little effect on the result. If he was able to donate a few of those votes to neighbouring Sarah Jones the outcome would have been different in Croydon Central.

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UKIP meanwhile, were both one of the biggest successes - polling 4m votes nationwide - and the biggest failures - actually losing seats and only ending up with one MP.

In south west London and north Surrey they have a heartland of sorts. Epsom and Ewell gave them the most votes.

In the region they saw a big percentage increase in votes, massive in fact. An obvious caveat is that it is easier to get big swings on small numbers.

But it wasn't the biggest swing. The Greens saw a big increase from 10,227 votes to 39,772 votes - suggesting their pitch to the electorate to vote with their hearts may have paid off.

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'ANYONE BUT TORIES'

Conservatives hate this term, but others argue voting AGAINST policies (by voting for a candidate who can beat a candidate you strongly disagree with) is as valid as voting FOR policies.

One of the other stories of this election has been the collapse of the Lib Dems, suggesting their decreasing popularity, but also the apparent decline of tactical voting by some voters.

But it could have been so different for a couple of MPs in particular if, and this is a big if, the 'Anyone but Tory' vote had consolidated around the second candidate in several races.

I've committed a huge political sin by lumping the Lib Dem, Labour and Green vote into a potential ABT block. Their policy differences are large, as any party member will tell you. 

And I've given the Conservative party a boost by giving them back disillusioned voters who may have have switched to UKIP. Let's assume UKIP voters got wind of the AB vote and rushed to support a Tory, in their own version of Anyone But....

And here's what it shows.

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Lib Dem Paul Burstow would have still gone. And Conservative Gavin Barwell would have still won his seat. And his fellow Conservative Jane Ellison too.

But Lib Dems Vince Cable and Edward Davey would still have their seats, if they had been able to persuade even a few more Green voters, or Labour voters to swing their way.

Vince Cable could be the leader of the Lib Dems. But the failure to keep or attract those tactical voters left him without a job and ended his political career. 

Your Local Guardian: What do you think? Did you vote tactically? Would you vote differently in five years' time? Let us know with a comment below.