Labour has comfortably held the West Lancashire constituency with a 10% swing towards the party in a by-election blow to Rishi Sunak’s Tory party.
It was the first time the Tory vote in the constituency has dipped below 30% since the 1997 general election, which Tony Blair's Labour party won by a landslide.
In a victory speech in the early hours of Friday morning, the newly elected Labour MP Ashley Dalton demanded a general election.
