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I've heard a fair few people saying they're not voting as there weren't any pro-leave candidates in their constituency (they're not viewing Labour/Tory as pro-leave) or the only one is UKIP who have shifted to far to the right for them.
I suspect that Labour and Conservative lost votes both for not delivering Brexit and trying to deliver Brexit.
My guess would be that pro-Brexit votes went to either UKIP, independents (a fair few ex-tories I think) or just too pissed off to vote and pro-Remain votes went to Greens and Lib-Dems.
On top of that the Lib Dems probably recovered some of the seats they lost in 2015 (due to being blamed for the coalition's failings), Greens probably picked up some due to the prominence of climate change at the moment and I'm sure there were a variety of local issues too.