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Veteran left-winger George Galloway has lost the Rochdale seat just five months after winning it in a by-election - as Labour grandee Neil Kinnock condemned the firebrand politician as a 'repulsive cancer'.
The leader of the Workers Party of Britain, who did not even show up at the count in Rochdale, received 11,508 votes, losing out to Labour's Paul Waugh who won with 13,047 votes.
It comes after Galloway only won the seat in a February by-election, having overturned a Labour majority of 9,668.
As news broke of Galloway losing, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock broke into a smile and told the BBC: 'I am delighted. He is repulsive. Galloway is repulsive. He always has been.'
Lord Kinnock - who led the Labour party from 1983 to 1992 - added: 'I have known him since 1983 and he is repellent. He is such a cancer, he's so superficial.'
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said communities would be 'glad to see the back' of Galloway.
George Galloway (pictured) has lost the Rochdale seat just five months after winning it - with Labour grandee Neil Kinnock leading the celebrations
As news broke of Galloway losing, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock broke into a smile and told the BBC : 'I am delighted. He is repulsive. Galloway is repulsive. He always has been.'
Although Galloway did not show up at the count, he wrote on X afterwards: 'I thank the people of Rochdale who gave me 54 sitting days in the last parliament as their MP.
'Big thanks to my agent, my campaign team and the thousands who voted for me today.
'We took the government party to within 1,500 votes and serve notice on Labour that we are here to stay in Rochdale.
'We will field a full slate of council candidates, establish a full-time office there, campaign to re-open the maternity ward and A&E, and keep up the pressure on Labour in the town.'
Galloway criticised Labour for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas during his winning by-election campaign.
But this time he lost to Mr Waugh, a former political journalist who has previously worked for Britain's Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, and who grew up in the town.
Galloway, 69, was himself a former Labour parliamentarian before being expelled from the party in 2003 for criticising then-prime minister Tony Blair over the Iraq war.
By that time, he already had a reputation for controversy.
In 1994, he drew criticism for meeting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and telling him: 'Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.'
His fame reached its height in 2006 when he impersonated a cat on a reality television show.
The maverick returned to Westminster as a representative of a third different political party - the Workers Party of Britain - having previously been both a Labour and Respect MP.
The Labour win is yet another victory for Sir Keir Starmer, who is predicted to become Prime Minister, according to the exit polls.
Labour is forecast to have a 170-seat majority in the Commons, with the Conservatives reduced to their lowest number of MPs on record.
Galloway criticised Labour for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas during his winning by-election campaign
George Galloway poses for a photo with his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi days after winning by-election
If the results indicated by an exit poll are accurate, Rishi Sunak's term as Prime Minister will end in electoral disaster, with Nigel Farage's Reform UK establishing a foothold in Parliament and the Liberal Democrats forecast to make significant gains.
The exit poll suggests Labour is on course for 410 seats, with the Tories reduced to 131.
The Liberal Democrats are forecast to win 61 seats, Reform UK on 13 and the Green Party two.
In Scotland, the SNP are expected to secure 10 seats with Plaid Cymru in Wales on four.
The poll for broadcasters involved more than 20,000 voters at 133 polling stations.
If the results follow the forecast, it will mean a Labour prime minister in No 10 for the first time since 2010 and the Conservatives facing a fight for the future direction of the party.
Former Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said it is 'clearly a terrible night', suggesting voters had been put off by the revolving door in No 10 which saw Boris Johnson replaced first by Liz Truss and then by Mr Sunak.
Sir Jacob told the BBC 'there were issues with changing the leader', adding: 'Voters expect the prime minister they have chosen to remain the prime minister and for it to be the voters who decide when that person is changed.'
After 14 years in power, it was always going to be a difficult election for the Conservatives, but the sometimes shambolic campaign - triggered at a time of Mr Sunak's choosing - has contributed to the party's likely defeat.
From the rain-drenched speech announcing the surprise July 4 poll, through the D-Day debacle as he left Normandy early to record a TV interview to confused campaign messaging about a Labour 'supermajority', Mr Sunak struggled to convince the electorate he was the right man to lead the country.
Going for a summer election rather than waiting until the autumn was always a gamble, and the Prime Minister was not helped by the scandal of Tory candidates and officials allegedly heading to the bookies armed with inside knowledge of the date.
Mr Sunak is expected to resign after leading his party to defeat, but many of the contenders jostling to replace him are nervously awaiting their own constituency results to see if their leadership dreams survive the night.
The likes of Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps and Steve Baker all face battles to return to Parliament, while Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is predicted to lose.