Lib Dems win Tory stronghold Stratford-on-Avon

The election saw the Conservatives lose more than half their six MPs in Coventry and Warwickshire.

In the ten seats that were up for grabs, Labour now have seven seats compared to the four with which they began the campaign. The Lib Dems have one seat and the Tories have two.

Labour’s win in Nuneaton overnight was particularly significant as the seat has long been a bellwether for the national mood.

At every election since 1997, the party that won the Nuneaton seat has also won nationally.

Nursery worker Jodie Gosling won 15,216 votes, giving her a 3,479 majority over Conservative candidate Marcus Jones, who had been in place since 2010.

“I’m really happy and can’t wait to start work,” Ms Gosling said.

Mr Jones said his loss was a “very difficult result” and the party had to consider at a national level “what went wrong in this last Parliament”.

Labour also won seats from the Tories in two further constituencies in the region, Rugby, and North Warwickshire and Bedworth.

Warwick and Leamington was a Labour hold, while Kenilworth and Southam was held by the Tories who also won Meriden and Solihull East, a new constituency in the wake of boundary changes although with a Conservative MP in the previous Meriden form.