Former Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has lost his seat in Morley and Outwood after a full recount.
He lost the seat to Conservative Andrea Jenkins, by 422 votes.
Labour count was 18,354
Conservative count was 18,776
Liberal Democrats count was 1,426
UKIP count was 7,951
Greens count was 1,264
Yorkshire First count was 479
The seat was newly created in 2010 based on the former Morley and Rothwell seat and part of Ed Balls’ abolished Normanton seat.
This is a huge loss for Labour, as Balls was going to be at the forefront of the party’s economic policy.
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