Beccy Cooper has won Worthing West (Image: Labour)
Labour has taken a long-held Tory seat in Sussex.
Leader of Worthing Borough Council Beccy Cooper has unseated Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley, who was the MP since the constituency's creation in 1997.
She took the win with 20,519 votes. Sir Peter received 16,570 votes.
He had been an MP for more than six decades and spent almost all his career as an MP on the back benches, except for a six-year stint as a minister in the government of Margaret Thatcher.
He was also Father of the House of Commons.
Ms Cooper made history in 2017 when she became the first Labour councillor in Worthing for more than 40 years.
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