Election results video: George Galloway, Ed Balls and the five other biggest losers of the campaign
Video: The seven biggest losers from the General Election 2015
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Your support makes all the difference.Election night 2015 threw up a lot of surprise victories, and in equal measure, a flurry of surprise defeats.
So who were tonight's biggest losers?
For Labour it was even worse, with their election campaign chief Douglas Alexander suffering a humiliating defeat in Paisley and Renfrewshire at the hands of 20-year-old SNP representative Mhairi Black and bad news for the Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy soon followed, when he lost out in East Renfrewshire to the SNP's Kirsten Oswald.
The Lib Dems didn’t fare much better in England, with the Conservatives winning back Twickenham, Teddington and the Hamptons off Business Secretary Vince Cable and Lib Dem stalwart Simon Hughes being ousted from his seat in Bermondsey and Old Southwark after holding it for 32 years.
The biggest shock of the night came in West Yorkshire though, when former shadow chancellor Ed Balls lost his Morley and Outwood seat after to the Conservatives by 422 votes.
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