Conservative William Wragg marginally won the swing seat in 2017 with a 12% majority. Wragg secured 45.4% of the votes, earning 5,514 more votes than the closest candidate Liberal Democrats’ Lisa Smart with 14,533 votes (32.9%).

Jim McMahon from the Labour party won the constituency’s seat in 2017 with 65.2% of the votes, which was 10% more votes than the 2015 election.

A Labour stronghold since 2010, Blackley and Broughton is a parliamentary constituency located to the north of the city of Manchester.

The Conservatives’ Chris Green has hung onto Bolton West’s seat since 2015, but only by a fine line, having won by less than 1,000 votes and a 1.8% majority.

Jonathan Reynolds, Corbyn’s shadow treasury minister, won his third election in a row in 2017, increasing his vote by 12.2%. This has been Labour since 1945 and is usually as safe as it gets.

Right in the traditional Labour heartland, Oldham East is the kind of seat that this election will hinge on. The constituency voted 60% in favour of leaving the EU, but has never been out of Labour’s control and will be heavily contested.

Whilst the result was never in doubt for Labour’s Tony Lloyd at the last general election, the big story from the Rochdale constituency was Simon Danczuk standing as an independent candidate following his dismissal from the Labour Party.

Labour’s Ann Coffey won the seat in 2017 with a 34.9% majority, with 26,282 votes, up 13.4% from the previous election in 2017.

Labour’s Lisa Nandy won the seat in 2017 with a sizeable 33.7% majority. Nandy received 62.2% of the votes, over 16,000 more than the Conservative Party candidate in second place.

After Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn faced off on Tuesday night, the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Brexit Party and Greens were given airtime to speak to the nation.

For the first time since 2015 the Conservative Party and Labour Party leaders will lock horns in a live TV debate. Follow the latest developments here…