LABOUR’S Peter Kyle has massively increased his majority with a thumping win in what was one of his party’s most at-risk seats.

The defending MP was a star performer in a night of highlights for Labour by turning the marginal into a safe seat.

Mr Kyle was defending Labour’s 13th smallest majority in the country of just 1,236 votes but grew that to almost 18,000 votes.

His 36,132 votes is the highest by a Hove MP since 1959.

Conservative Kristy Adams came second with 18,185 – a loss of more than 2,000 votes from two years ago.

Carrie Hinds came in third with 1,311 votes for the Lib Dems, who had won almost ten times that many votes as recently as 2010 [more than 11,000].

Brighton and Hove City Councillor Phelim MacCafferty came in fourth for the Green Party received 971 votes, losing more than 2,500 votes from 2015 with the majority going to Labour.

UKIP, who won 3,265 votes in 2015, choose not to stand a candidate this time around so as not to take votes away from the Tory bid to oust Mr Kyle after just two years in office.

Independent Charley Sabel came fifth with 187 votes.