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From Vince Cable to Zac Goldsmith (just): The comeback kids who won their seats back
On a night of shocks that has left the Prime Minister' Theresa May hanging by a thread, several careers have came back from the dead.
Here are the 2017 General Election's comeback kids:
Zac Goldsmith, Richmond Park
Zac Goldsmith snatched the narrowest of victories in Richmond Park with a majority of just 45.
After dramatically quitting the Conservatives over Heathrow expansion last autumn, Mr Goldsmith was back in the Tory fold this election to unseat the Lib Dem's Sarah Olney.
Goldsmith, 42, lost to Ms Olney on December 1 last year after triggering a by-election when he quit the Conservatives in protest at his party's plans for a third runway.
He stood then as an independent but was defeated by Ms Olney by 18,638 to 20,510, or 4.5%.
Today 63,462 votes were cast in Richmond Park - a total of 79.3% of the electorate and up from 53.55% for last December's by-election.
He won 28,588 votes to Ms Olney's 28,543.
The victory marked the end of a string of blows to Mr Goldsmith in a little over a year - he lost the London mayoral election to Sadiq Khan, was unable to alter his party's stance on Heathrow before losing his seat to Ms Olney.
Despite re-joining the Conservatives, Mr Goldsmith still ran his campaign on his anti-Heathrow credentials.
Staunchly pro-Brexit, the multi-millionaire member of the eponymous banking dynasty also had to win over a constituency that voted 72% Remain.
He said: "I'm grateful to my constituents for having put their trust in me again.
"I hope that I will never let them down - we have the most special community in the world and representing them is an unimaginable honour."
Sir Vince Cable, Twickenham
Meanwhile, in the nearby Twickenham, Lib Dem warhorse Sir Vince Cable swept back into his former seat with 34,969 votes.
The 74-year-old ousted the Conservatives' Dr Tania Mathias, who snatched the seat in 2015 with a majority of just 2,017.
Ophthalmologist Dr Mathias, 52, who has worked with aid agencies in the Gaza strip, and with HIV, Aids and TB patients in South Africa, polled 25,207.
A total of 66,455 votes were cast or 79.7% of the electorate, up from 77.42 in 2015.
During the campaign Sir Vince, who served as business secretary in the 2010-15 coalition, batted away criticisms that he was too old and vowed to focus on being a "good constituency MP" if he won back his seat.
He fought his campaign on an agenda of opposing school cuts, promoting further education, protecting hospitals and supporting small businesses.
Sir Vince said: "I would like to thank Tania. When I lost two years ago she was extremely gracious about me and I would like to reciprocate.
"It was just her misfortune that the Prime Minister decided to call an election when she had only had two years to prove herself in the job."
Sir Edward Davey, Kingston and Surbiton
Former energy secretary Sir Edward Davey won back his seat just two years after losing it in a terrible night for the Liberal Democrats at the last election.
In 2015, Sir Edward saw a majority of 7,560 votes evaporate to lose the Kingston and Surbiton seat he had held since 1997 - but he has now regained it with a 4,124 majority over the Conservatives.
Sir Edward was appointed as employment relations, consumer and postal affairs minister in 2010.
He was promoted to energy and climate change secretary in February 2012, after his Lib Dem colleague Chris Huhne was forced to resign when he was charged with perverting the course of justice by making his wife take his speeding points.
The job, one of six Cabinet positions the Lib Dems held as junior partners in the coalition, gave the party the chance to exercise their green credentials.
Sir Edward claimed credit for leading the bid to secure a "massive increase" in renewable electricity in the UK and for winning concessions from the Treasury over a potential target to slash emissions from the power sector by 2030 and preserving targets to cut emissions in the mid-2020s.
And he led negotiations for the UK on the world stage at UN climate talks in Qatar, Poland and Peru.
In his losing speech in 2015, he said he was very proud of his party for its action on the environment, and he has continued to speak out on green issues.
After losing his seat, he joined community energy enterprise Mongoose Energy as chairman and set up an independent consultancy, providing advice to firms including ones linked to Hinkley Point nuclear power station - though his services were unrelated to the controversial project.
Jo Swinson, East Dunbartonshire
Former "Baby of the House" Jo Swinson sparked her political comeback by winning her old parliamentary constituency back from the SNP.
The Liberal Democrat first won the seat of East Dunbartonshire from Labour in 2005 at the age of 25 - at the same time becoming the first MP to have been born in the 1980s.
She held the seat in 2010 and after the Lib Dems went into coalition with the Conservatives, she took on junior ministerial posts, serving as minister for employment relations, consumer and postal affairs, and also junior equalities minister.
During her time in government, she worked to bring in shared parental leave to encourage more fathers to take time off for caring responsibilities after the birth of a child.
When the SNP swept the board in the 2015 election, winning 56 of the 59 Scottish constituencies, she was ousted from Westminster by nationalist John Nicolson.
Just over two years later, she defeated Mr Nicolson to win the seat back for the Lib Dems, with the snap General Election providing an early opportunity for Ms Swinson to return to the political fray.
She was brought up in the East Dunbartonshire area that she represents once again and studied at Douglas Academy in Milngavie before going on to get a first-class degree from the London School of Economics.
She joined the Liberal Democrats at the age of 17 and is married to Duncan Hames, who like her was a Liberal Democrat MP who lost his seat when support for the party plummeted in the 2015 election.
The couple have one son, Andrew, who was born in December 2013.