Tories completely wiped out in Greater Manchester

Chris Green, who lost his seat in Bolton West said his replacement faced a "challenging time ahead".

Defeat after defeat left the Conservatives without a seat in Greater Manchester.

The Tories lost nine seats across the region, with previously hard-won red wall constituencies returning to Labour, and voters in two areas swinging the Liberal Democrats to victory.

Tom Morrison, who won a 12,000 majority for the Lib Dems in formerly-Conservative Cheadle, said people felt "let down and taken for granted".

Conservative Chris Green, who lost his seat in Bolton West, said his party had been "ejected" after a "massive victory for the Labour Party".

Kirith Entwistle won Bolton North East for Labour from the Conservatives.

Mr Green said Tory attempts to fight both Reform and Labour had seen the party "squeezed in the middle", adding it was wrong to think elections "can only be won from the centre ground".

Red wall seats like Bury North and Bolton North East, held by the Conservatives since 2019, were returned to Labour.

Reform bled Tory support in many areas, with the party's candidates receiving more than ten thousands votes in the Wigan constituencies of Makerfield, and Leigh and Atherton

George Galloway was defeated by Labour in Rochdale, with the Workers Party of Britain leader absent from the count as he was toppled by political journalist Paul Waugh.

Labour comeback

The Altrincham and Sale West seat which long-standing Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady decided not to contest again passed into Labour hands.

And a 16.2% swing away from the Tories saw Bolton West became a Labour seat for the first time since 2015.

Its MP Phil Brickell said he was "really pleased" to see that "across all three Bolton constituencies we have returned Labour members of parliament for the first time in quite a while".

James Frith won back the seat he lost in 2019, a defeat that he said was "very real, both for me and the Labour Party".

In Bury South, Christian Wakeford, who crossed the floor and joined Labour from the Conservatives in 2022, sailed to victory under the Labour flag for the first time.

The Lib Dem success in Cheadle was followed in neighbouring Hazel Grove, where Lisa Smart won the formerly Conservative seat.

A 16.1% swing saw Labour's Jo Platt regained the Leigh and Atherton seat she lost to the Conservatives in 2019. She said people had "voted for change, and now we have got to see it".