Ed Balls loses seat: Watch the moment shadow chancellor concedes defeat in Morley and Outwood

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When Alex Salmond spoke of an "electoral tsunami" across Scotland regarding the SNP, no one expected any similar momentous shifts in polling south of Scotland.

Yet, while Scottish figures such as Jim Murphy, Danny Alexander, Douglas Alexander and Charles Kennedy lost out to the SNP, many others south of the border fell, mainly Liberal Democrats such as Simon Hughes and Vince Cable.

However, the biggest upset of the night did not occur until the early hours of Friday morning, when the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, lost out in Morley and Outwood. The freak result saw Mr Balls' slim majority of just over 1,000 in 2010 overturned so that the Conservative candidate, Andrea Jenkyns, took the seat with votes to the Labour shadow chancellor's .