Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed.

Activists were asked to trust in a targeting analysis that proved to be based on flawed data and assumptions that were overturned by the manifesto.

Richard Short: What I learnt from my campaigning tour of the constituencies

It is worth looking at where we were successful, and what went right, in the hope we can replicate that, and secure better success at the next general election.

Battleground Seats 9) North West

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

Exclusive. Aldershot, Chichester and Chester shortlist details. The man up against Farron. Latest selection news.

All the latest candidate selections, shortlists in key marginals and details of tonight’s contests.

Watkins back for third go at Tooting. Macleod battles Cracknell for Brentford & Isleworth. Latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Wirral West, Ealing Central & Acton, Chorley and Bristol East. And selection results in Blackpool South, Darlington and Eltham.

Andrew Snowden: In Chorley, the Conservatives have a chance to retake lost ground

The seats being fought were last contested in 2012 after the Pasty Tax Omnishambles Budget.

The Conservatives shouldn’t settle for coming third in Oldham

We can’t win a workable majority without breaking through in more seats in the urban and suburban North and Midlands.

Battlegrounds Revisited 1) The North West

In the aftermath of the election, we revisit our regional profiles to see how the parties fared compared to expectations.

The Election Battleground 1) The North West

In the first of our series looking at May’s electoral battlegrounds, we explore the fierce fights which are taking place across the North West.