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...and that was just the audience.
Sally Taylor, your election debate ringmaster for the evening,tweeted: "Haven't come across such a lively well informed audience with superb questions.
"Very lively...a testing ringmasters job for me!!!!"
Political editor, South of England
Talking to people during this campaign I have felt they are more empowered and feel they have more of a stake.
A lot of politicians agree with me that they haven't experienced this in previous elections, people really care this time.
Politicians promise a lot during the election campaign. But how much of it do they really mean? And does it make a difference to your vote?
The BBC'sReality Check team has been sorting fact from fiction, wheat from chaff and hype from hyperbole so you know who to believe about what.
Sally Taylor asks the panel with a royal baby on the way, is it hope or austerity ahead of the general election?
They all say hope, and it depends who you vote for.
And with that the debate ends for the evening. Continue to have your say using the hashtag#southdebate
Rowenna Davis said a Labour government would work to end "the exploitation" of zero-hours contracts and give people the opportunity to accept a more secure contract after a certain amount of time.
Penny Mordaunt, Conservative, said the move would harm businesses.
We've been asking for your views during the BBC South election debate, Danny M emailed to say: "It is very worrying how intolerant normally sensible people have become.
"Immigration always has and always will make our country a richer place.
"The UK always has been a country built on many different nationalities throughout its history."
Audience member Kathleen Kerridge said raising the tax threshold hadn't helped, as her family might earn £5 more a week, but £10 gets taken away in support.
Lib Dem Layla Moran said she is proud of her party lowering the tax threshold while in government.
Mike Glennon, UKIP, said Britain needs to become an attractive place for businesses to boost the economy.
Penny Mordaunt, Conservative, said: "This goes to the heart of people's quality of life. Our welfare reforms are about making work pay."
Kathleen Kerridge told her story: "We have gone through health problems and redundancy in our family and eviction through a private landlord and were then rehoused in sub-standard accommodation.
"We were collecting benefits and didn't need to worry about prescription charges, travel costs, school uniform, school lunches, but when my husband got a job we had to face a lot of pressure suddenly.
"We had to go to the food bank to feed the family, things are so bad people are going to charity to get food."
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"Are you feeling better off?"
The audience are split. Some shout "yes" and some shout "no".
Audience member Ann said: "It is our National Health Service, it's not yours.
"When are you all getting together and stop using it as a political football?"
Mark Chivers, Green Party, said when you start to think about patients as customers you change the ethos.
Rowenna Davis, Labour, said: "If we were setting up the NHS today, we would make it a health and care service.
"What we can't do as a Labour Party is sign up to the cuts and austerity the coalition has introduced."
Penny Mordaunt, Conservative, said: "We have got to do more than just give the NHS the money it needs.
"We have got to integrate budgets and involve the voluntary sector more."
Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat, said: "We want to listen to the professionals in the health service.
"We will move the NHS towards prevention rather than cure."
GP David Paynton asked the panel: "We got through the last winter, just. The care system in this country is on the brink.
"What plans do you have to secure the long-term future of the NHS?"
One audience member asked: "Why should we listen to the top three parties? You have had a chance and haven't been doing your jobs."
Mark Chivers, Green Party, responded to the question about immigration saying: "The reason why there is a problem in the NHS is that services haven't been invested in properly, it is not the fault of the last people who came here."
Giving her views on immigration, Labour's Rowenna Davis said: "[We] will raise the minimum wage to £8 per hour to stop people being undercut.
"We know there are deeper issues that need to be addressed surrounding this issue."
UKIP's Mike Glennon said Britain is a "small island", adding: "We need to control immigration, it is not about race it is about space."
"UKIP will introduce an Australian-style point system."
First to respond on the the issue of immigration is the Conservative's Penny Mordaunt who said: "We will make additional funding available for the extra stress on public services.
"We also need to reform the freedom of movement within the EU."
Our first question comes from audience member Rhys Aldous who asked: "What are you all going to do about immigration?
"We are all feeling the effects of it on the NHS and public services."
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Unfortunately we couldn't hold a debate with every candidate in the south of England but there's a trove of information on theBBC News website.
Each constituency has a profile listing all the candidates standing against those speaking tonight.
Click on each of the following forOxford West and Abingdon, Southampton Itchen, Worthing East and Shoreham, Portsmouth North and Mid Dorset and North Poole.
Our final member is Labour's Southampton Itchen candidate Rowenna Davis who grew up in London and has lived in Bitterne Park for the past few years.
She used to be a journalist and became interested in politics as she wanted to "play a part in solving problems" rather than writing about them.
According toher website, she once made it from Vancouver to Venezuela in a second-hand truck.
Green Party candidate for Mid Dorset & North Poole Mark Chivers has lived in the Poole area for more than 20 years and had a career in financial services.He says: "Many people are struggling because of the government's austerity agenda" which he is "fundamentally opposed to".
Liberal Democrat candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon Layla Moran is a physics and maths teacher by profession andaccording to her website "her mother is a Christian Arab from Jerusalem, and her father is a British EU Ambassador".
She has lived in Greece, Ethiopia, Jamaica and Jordan and believes government policy should be based on "evidence not political posturing and rhetoric".
UKIP's candidate for East Worthing and Shoreham Mike Glennon will be appearing and said the people of the UK have the right to govern themselves and should not be dictated to "by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels".
His election campaign was launched with the distinctive UKIP purple double-decker bus touring his constituency.
Let's introduce our panel which is made up of five election candidates, starting with Conservative Portsmouth North hopeful Penny Mordaunt who was elected as an MP in 2010 and grew up in Portsmouth.
As a member of parliament she was a member of the Public Bill Committee for the Defence Reform Act.She is a Royal Navy reservist at King Alfred on Whale Island and appeared on reality television programme Splash!
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