The Tories have won Workington - the seat identified by a think tank as a bellweather for the General Election .
Conservative Mark Jenkinson won the seat with a thumping majority of 4,176 over Labour incumnbent Sue Hayman.
A think tank coined the phrase 'Workington Man' to describe the key target voter who would determine the outcome of the election: a Northern, older, white man.
The seat has had a Labour MP for more than 40 years.
Labour's shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman was defending a 3,925 majority from 2017. The area voted heavily to leave the EU.
Both parties had said earlier in the evening the seat was too close to call.
Ms Hayman is a key member of Jeremy Corbyn's team - having served as Shadow Environment Secretary since 2017.
Mr Jenkinson won with 20,488 votes, beating Ms Hayman who secured 16,312 votes.
The Lib Dems were in third place with 1,525 votes.
It came during a brutal night for Labour, with Boris Johnson projected to win a majority of more than 80 seats.
Moments after the Workington result, Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman has lost her Darlington seat by more than 3,000 votes to the Tories.
The Tory candidate triumphed with 20,901 votes to Ms Chapman’s 17.607 - overturning her previous majority of 3,280.
The north east seat had been Labour since the 1990s but was predicted to go to the Tories along with nearly 30 others in a YouGov poll.
