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He secured his fourth term as MP for Leigh with 53.65% of the vote – up from the 48% he received in 2010.

Speaking about the campaign experience and how today’s panned out for him, Mr Hart said it had been ‘a really big experience, really important’.

Pirate Party leader Loz Kaye believes Ed Miliband’s Labour campaign has lacked a ‘compelling alternative’ as momentum appears to favour the Conservatives this morning.

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party arrived at the Manchester tennis centre just before 2am, wearing glittered jackets and pig snout masks.

Challenging the current political climate, he spoke about the lack of choice at the polling booth.

Altrincham and Sale West’s Green candidate Nick Robertson-Brown has pushed for the idea of getting rid of the first past the post voting system.

In what was once a Liberal Democrat-Labour swing seat, Rochdale Lib Dem candidate Andy Kelly has lamented his party’s time in government as the source of a collapsed vote in the constituency.

Mr O’Donoghue believed UKIP’s national election campaign had been unfairly represented by the media, and Nigel Farage is the only politician who speaks his mind.

Exit polls by the BBC and YouGov put Conservatives ahead of Labour by 77 and 21 seats respectively, but Mr Burnham remains optimistic.

Rochdale’s Conservative candidate Azi Ahmed has revealed she’s not surprised that the Tories are currently a whisker away from an overall majority according to BBC’s exit poll.

Mr Crasuby, who has represented the constituency since 1997, said he usually goes into election counts expecting to lose.