A tearful Ben Bradley was wearing a Christmas jumper as he pledged to bring "nurses into hospitals and police on to the streets" after a landslide victory in Mansfield.
Mr Bradley, who produced a shock result at the last General Election in 2017 as he took the seat from the Labour Party for the first time since 1923, won with a majority of 16,306 votes.
In 2017, the seat was taken from Labour with a fairly small majority of 1,057 votes, and resulted in Sir Alan Meale retiring as a Labour politician.
It was a seat that was once considered, even by the 'Big Beast' of politics himself - Ken Clarke - to have been impenetrable by anyone other than Labour.
On December 12, Mr Bradley proved otherwise for the second time.
"It's a massive thing, I feel with a majority and the success of my other colleagues in Nottinghamshire, that we can now deliver what we promised," Mr Bradley told Nottinghamshire Live.
"We need to fulfill our pledges, we need to get those nurses into hospitals and those police on the streets.
"We need to invest in our transport network. Mansfield has so much potential. I'm feeling amazing."
Labour's Sonya Ward, who received 15,178 votes on the night, said she is "pessimistic" for the future and says she has no choice but to "continue the fight for those in absolute poverty."
Speaking after her loss, she said: "I'm pessimistic for the future for the families living here in absolute poverty. We have seen ages go down by 15 percent . £123 per week below the national average.
"[The Conservatives] have had nine years and those issues have got worse. Homelessness is up. Thousands of children are without a home. As someone who has worked with kids I can only feel pessimistic.
"We are not blurry-eyed, we are clear eyed. And we will continue this fight."
The turnout for the former mining town on the night was 64.08 percent, slightly below that of 2017 when the turnout was 64.58 percent.
Sarah Brown, who was representing the Liberal Democrats, received slightly more votes over 2017, coming in third with 1,626 votes, compared to 697.
"My aim was standing up for the 30 percent," she added.
Mr Bradley said there had been a gradual shift over the "past 20 to 30 years" - including in 1987 when Labour barely held on with a majority of just 56 votes, following the mining strikes of 1984.
Andy Abrahams, the Labour mayor of Mansfield, who won by just two votes earlier this year, spoke on behalf of the Labour party following the exit poll which predicted a Conservative win.
He said: "It's all about Brexit.
"It's really disappointing. I really feel for Sonya and the team who have worked tirelessly in this very honest campaign.
"There are some really fantastic Labour policies but they hit the brick wall of Brexit."
The results in full:
Ben Bradley, Conservative: 31,484
Sarah Brown, Lib Dems: 1,626
Stephen Harvey, Independent: 458
Sid Pepper, Independent: 527
Sonya Ward, Labour: 15,178
Turnout: 64.08%
