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Tom Mullen
Reporter, BBC News Online

Leigh has been a Labour stronghold since 1922 and was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's constituency for six years - the man who many considered ahead of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.

It was considered part of the so-called "red wall" of Labour safe seats and numbered a lowly 132 on the Conservatives' list of targets.

However, Conservative James Grundy became the constituency's new MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.

There was little expectation of such a seismic switch, so trying to make sense of why the former mill town has turned Tory has been a puzzle for commentators - and even for Mr Grundy, who admitted he had expected "to lose with dignity". Yet, for most of the town's residents, the result was less of a surprise.

Greengrocer Dave West voted Conservative, despite having voted remain in the referendum and expecting his business costs to rise if Britain leaves the EU.

However, he wants to see more local investment and said he felt "ignored" by the previous MP, Labour's Jo Platt. "I never even saw [her]. People have had enough [of her]. I've never seen so many people going in to vote in my life.

"I don't want to leave the EU because my lorry drivers will be in queues and much of my produce is from Spain and France, but I still voted Conservative because of everything else. My decision was based on local issues."

Gail Robinson, who runs a delicatessen stall, was also influenced by local issues and said she was proud to have ticked the Tory box for the first time.

The 46-year-old said she "didn't want Labour in anymore".

"All the funding just goes to Wigan. The MP talked a lot of gibberish. Andy Burnham did a lot for Leigh and I had more confidence in him, but not since then.

"I'm really hoping that there's going to be a big change. I think that many people have just got to a point where they want to get things moving."

Newly-elected Antony Higginbotham thanks voters after taking Burnley from Labour's Julie Cooper.

He is the town's first Tory MP for more than 100 years.

Mike Stevens
BBC Radio Lancashire political reporter

Each of the three Conservative gains in Lancashire - Burnley, Blackpool South and Hyndburn - are in areas where more than two-thirds of people voted to leave the European Union in 2016.

The shift from Labour to the Conservatives is monumental and many say the results have caught them by surprise.

However, the writing could have been on the wall for some time.

In Burnley, for example, Labour lost control of the local council earlier this year - with many voters citing Brexit as an issue for the way they voted.

On a devastating night for Labour that saw seats fall to the Tories across the country, the red flag is still flying proudly over one corner of England.

Of the 15 seats on Merseyside, Labour held on to 14 with Southport the only tinge of blue in a red tide. So why is Merseyside bucking the trend?

Radio Merseyside's political reporter Claire Hamilton takes a look:

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“Scouse not English” is a phrase familiar from the football terraces. But away from Anfield or Goodison there is a sense that Liverpool is exceptional, stands alone and apart from the rest of the country, and politics is no different.

The loyalty to Labour and a dislike of the Conservatives is historic and deep-rooted in a way perhaps it isn’t in other post-industrial places.

The notion that a Conservative cabinet minister recommended to Margaret Thatcher that Liverpool be allowed to slip into “managed decline” has taken root; how dare the demise of this great city be encouraged?

It’s a "them and us" scenario which has deepened and been mythologised for decades. Merseyside broadly voted 50:50 in the EU referendum, with Liverpool voting to remain by 58% (the Riverside Constituency is likely to have voted 73% remain) – but St Helens voted to leave by the same percentage.

Yet neither of the town’s two Labour MPs saw a genuine threat from any other party. So Labour’s Brexit position didn’t put off voters here the same way it did in other places. Talking to people in St Helens, the feeling was that the Conservative government didn’t care about the town, its regeneration or its future.

I think this is down to an entrenched anti-Conservative feeling which has grown stronger over generations. Leave voters here simply couldn’t bring themselves to vote Tory.

Burnley had not had a Tory MP for more than 100 years as Labour also lost Blackpool South and Hyndburn.

The MP for Warrington North has told her constituents that she will never stop fight their corner after having her majority slashed.

Labour's Charlotte Nichols successfully defended her seat despite seeing an 8.3% swing to the Conservatives.

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The Conservatives have gained Leigh in Greater Manchester - a seat held by Labour for almost 100 years.

BBC Radio 5 Live reporter Nick Garnett has been speaking to people at the town's bus station as they head to work.

Bev says she is “shocked and flabbergasted” that the seat has gone Conservative – “especially with the way Leigh is at the moment... it's not good. Predominantly, it was an old mining town so that's never changed, but everything is run down... everything is a second hand shop, there are people lying in doorways.”

Robert says he was told to vote Labour, “to save our NHS”.

Paul didn’t vote but isn’t surprised at the result: “It is all about Brexit isn’t it?

"Over the years they’ve been stalling because Parliament didn't want Brexit and you got the feeling that Labour in the same way have been stalling... because most of the party is Remainers...

"Even though Boris Johnson is not the best choice, he was the only one who's promising to go ahead with Brexit."

Debbie voted Conservative: “To be honest I didn’t think Jeremy Corbyn could do what he said he do. So, fingers crossed, we do Brexit now.

Is it about Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn? "Just a bit both really," Debbie says, "they all say they’re going to do something and nothing ever happens... So fingers crossed they get it done this time."

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Frank Field, who resigned the Labour whip last year, lost his seat in Birkenhead after more than 40 years as an MP.

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Mr Field decided to defend his seat as the Birkenhead Social Justice Party candidate after quitting Labour, saying it had become "a force for anti-Semitism".

After losing his seat, he thanked "those voters who over 42 years have given [him] the huge privilege of representing Birkenhead in the House of Commons".

"My debt to them is unlimited," he added.

"We know perfectly well within the parliamentary Labour party there are a number of shadow [members] who, had they been leading the party, some of you would have been celebrating a Labour government."

Hyndburn's new Tory MP Sara Britcliffe has succeeded where her father Peter failed in taking the seat from Labour.

"It's amazing, it's overwhelming at the moment," said.Ms Britcliffe who snatched the seat from sitting MP Graham Jones with a 10% swing.

Her father, who lost to Labour's Greg Pope in 2001, said: "I'm very proud of her - she has been a fantastic candidate.

"She's done what I couldn't do in the Blair years."

The new Conservative MP for Warrington South has described his election win as "the greatest honour".

Andy Carter took the seat for the Tories overturning Labour's 2,549 majority from 2017.

The new Conservative MP for Heywood and Middleton has said he wants to reach out to the "forgotten" voters of his constituency.

Christopher Clarkson, who won the seat from Labour's LIz McInnes, said: "Heywood refers to itself as the 'forgotten' town and there was a feeling that local issues had not been attended to over the past three years,."

Mr Clarkson said he was "knocking on doors in the rain until 9pm on polling day" because "we never thought it was in the bag."

He said quite a bit of his support had come from lifelong Labour voters "who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Jeremy Corbyn because for them he wasn't a real Labour representative."

He said his first task was to call his boss to hand his notice in.

In his victory speech, the new Conservative MP for Blackpool South has pledged to campaign to reopen Blackpool Airport to commercial traffic.

Scott Benton, who defeated Labour incumbent Gordon Marsden, said his win was “a victory for the decent, hardworking and patriotic people of Blackpool”.

He cited his support for Brexit and the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as key factors in his election victory.

Mr Marsden said it had been a "privilege" to have served as its MP.

He added: "Blackpool is a fantastic town and not somewhere drawn up anonymously by the Boundary Commission.”

Kevin Fitzpatrick
Greater Manchester politics reporter, BBC News

It was the Conservatives who cheered in celebration at the end of a gruelling night in Bury North.

After one full recount and another double check, they scraped to victory by the tightest of margins - just 105 votes.

It was the icing on the cake for the Tories on a night which ended with them holding both seats - Bury North and Bury South - for the first time since 1997.

Good morning, if you're just waking up, all of the results for the North West's 69 seats are in.

It was a disappointing night for Labour losing ten seats to the Tories although the party maintained its stronghold on Merseyside.

Nationally, the Conservatives won handsomely securing the overall majority Boris Johnson needs to "get Brexit done".

Across the North West, there were:

• 10 Conservative gains
• 0 Labour gains
• 17 Cons hold
• 42 Lab hold

Former Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger quit Labour earlier this year because of her belief that the party's leadership had failed to adequately tackle claims of anti-Semitism within the party.

She decided to stand for the Liberal Democrats in the north London seat of Finchley and Golders Green.

Her decision failed to pay off, however, and she was well beaten by Conservative incumbent Mike Freer.

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Meanwhile back in Liverpool Wavertree, Labour's Paula Barker secured a routine comfortable victory.

Merseyside has bucked the national trend with Labour holding 14 out of the 15 seats in the area.

Despite the Conservatives gaining in many Labour heartlands, seats including Birkenhead, Bootle, Knowsley and Sefton Central have remained red.

Veteran MP Frank Field, who stood as an independent candidate after quitting Labour in the party's over an alleged rise in anti-Semitism", lost his seat after 40 years as an MP.

It's been a very strong night for the Conservatives in the North West. They have gained 10 seats from Labour:

• Bury North
• Bury South
• Bolton North East
• Leigh
• Heywood & Middleton
• Burnley
• Blackpool South
• Hyndburn
• Crewe & Nantwich
• Warrington South

None of the region's other 59 seats changed hands, although many Labour-held seats featured slimmed down majorities.

Justin Madders has been re-elected as MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston but with a majority cut from 11,390 to 8,764.

Kieran Mullan has taken the marginal seat of Crewe and Nantwich for the Conservatives with a 8,508 majority.