Conservative member of parliament Anna Soubry was the first in the party to disavow May in public, calling on the prime minister to "consider her position".
May called the election in April - three years earlier than required by law - seeking to strengthen her government's mandate ahead of critical Brexit negotiations with the European Union.
May has suffered one of the most dramatic reversals in recent British political history.
Despite their anger at her decision to call a snap post-Brexit referendum election and her conduct of the party's campaign, Conservative lawmakers appeared ready in the short-term to back her.
How did May throw away what opinion polls suggested was a 20-point lead in under two months?
Seeking to capitalise on sky-high popularity ratings, she called the election a few weeks later, urging voters to give her a stronger mandate. Labour's increase in seats from 229 to 261 - with one seat still undecided - confounded expectations that his left-wing views made him electorally toxic.
In particular, May was forced to perform a mid-campaign reversal over a policy that would see people pay more towards elderly care - a plan quickly attacked as an unfair "dementia tax". Opponents denounced her as "weak and wobbly".
EU Commission chief Juncker said he hopes the British election result will cause no further delays in Brexit talks. Bohuslav Sobotka said that too much time had already been wasted.
The first political casualty of the night was former Lib Dem leader and ex-deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who lost his Sheffield Hallam seat to the Labour Party.
He lost his Croydon Central seat - which he won in 2015 with a majority of just 165 votes - to Labour's Sarah Jones.
The aide said the politician - who failed to beat Hilary Clinton for the Democrat presidential nomination - has "a lot of respect" for Mr. Corbyn and "wishes him well". The shock result has plunged the country into renewed political uncertainty, with a cloud hanging over who will lead the government in historic Brexit negotiations with the European Union, due to begin in just 10 days, and what the U.K.'s position in those talks will be. "I will reflect on that and come to considered judgements and I'll say more to that in the days to come". If May is unable to form a majority coalition, or can not set up a minority government, she would nearly certainly be forced to resign.
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Sturgeon conceded that the issue of independence had "undoubtedly" been a "factor" in the result, but said it was just one among many.
Salmond turned the SNP into an electoral force and led the campaign to break from England and Wales in 2014.
He attributed the loss of SNP seats to a late surge in support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. MP Anna Soubry called on May to "consider her position" following "a pretty awful campaign", in which the Conservatives squandered much of a 20-point lead in the polls.
With almost all seats declared, the Conservatives took 318 seats, 12 down from the 330 they won in 2015, while the Labour party took 261 seats, sweeping almost 30 seats more than their previous outing.
The result was a clear victory for Corbyn and the leftist ideas he champions, less than a year after he struggled to win a vote of confidence from his own MPs.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said May should resign.
Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union could be put on hold after Britain's Conservative Party failed to secure a majority and a clear mandate in the General Election.
Cable, who was business secretary in the coalition government in 2010, held the seat from 1997 up until the 2015 election.
May also promised that her government will "keep our nation safe and secure", after recent attacks in London and Manchester, by "cracking down on the ideology of Islamist extremism and all those who support it and giving the police and the authorities the powers they need to keep our country safe". They really turned out in massive numbers.
Two days later in a BBC Question Time special, Mr Corbyn found himself on a sticky wicket when pressed on whether he would press the nuclear button, one of the most hard moments of his campaign. Tim Farron, the current leader, retained his seat with only a narrow majority.
Cable said he was "looking forward to being an MP again and concentrating on my constituency work".
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