Rosie Cooper hailed her own local popularity as Labour retained West Lancashire in the General Election 2019 despite a national collapse.
Ms Cooper claimed the seat for a fifth consecutive election by a reduced majority of 8,336, pulling in more than 27,000 votes.
Conservative candidate Jack Gilmore finished in second place with 19,000, with the Liberal Democrats a distant third and the Brexit Party close behind.
Serving a Leave-voting constituency and having supported Remain before the referendum, the long serving MP had repeatedly defied the party's leadership to vote for Brexit deals offered by Theresa May and then Boris Johnson .
Much of her campaign focused on her own appeal and not that of the national party, and after the announcement, Ms Cooper saidr: "We work very hard all year round for constituents and when we going round knocking on doors people were able to say, 'you've done this for me, you've done that for me'.
"I and my office work really hard and I promised to be the voice of West Lancashire in Westminster and I believe I've kept my word."
She also promised to hold the Government to account, in particular on promises made by Boris Johnson to provide funding for a Skelmersdale train station and for reforms to Universal Credit.
She refused to be drawn on the issue of Labour's leadership, but argued that the party needs to become much better at listening to the public.
Asked what message she believes voters had sent the party in the election, she said: "You're not listening to us, you're not delivering what we want. We told you we wanted to leave, you didn't do it."
She added: "In this constituency, I believe we did listen, we listened hard and as I say it's very difficult at times because there's a lot of remainers here as well but we try to be honest and keep our word."
More than 52,000 voters cast their ballots, meaning turnout was 72%, 2 percentage points down from 2017.
