Labour’s Stella Creasy has retained her seat with a landslide majority in Walthamstow despite her party enduring a “difficult night” in the General Election .

Ms Creasy increased her vote from 21,252 in 2010 to 28,779 but immediately turned her thoughts to opposing the EDL march on Saturday.

The Lib Dems were decimated nationally and suffered badly here losing their deposit as the final result was announced at 6.30am at Walthamstow Assembly Hall in Forest Road.

After being declared MP for Walthamstow she took to the podium for her victory speech thanking her supporters and the police for staying up so late.

She said: “I would like to thank the other candidates in what has been a challenging but always thought-provoking campaign.

“It is a difficult night for our party but this result shows what kind of country the local community want to live in.

“This has been my home for 18 years and it has been a privilege to serve my local community for the last five years and I am looking forward to the five years in the future.

“It is overwhelming, a testament to the amazing volunteers that we got such a big majority.

“The plan now is to sleep and then get ready to oppose the EDL on Saturday.

"We want the police and home secretary to do more to combat the vicious threat they pose to our community.”

The Conservative candidate Molly Samuel-Leport came in second place with 5,584 votes.

Michael Gold became the first Green Party candidate to retain his deposit in Walthamstow, coming third with 2,661 votes.

Lib Dem Stephen Cheung saw his party fall from 11,774 votes in 2010 to just 1,661, losing his deposit.

The 25-year-old said his party would be lucky to get 10 seats.

He said: “I was hoping for a Labour coalition but we have both suffered badly nationally. We are being punished by voters for being in government.

“I am proud of our track record though we had 10 per cent of the vote in the last election but got 40 per cent of our manifesto through.

“The next five years are so important for the future, will we leave the EU - our biggest trading partner? Will we become a little Britain?”

“Vince Cable put his whole life to our ideology but we have to accept the consequences of going into coalition.”

TUSC Nancy Taaffe received 394 votes, Ellie Merton, Independent, got 129 votes, and Jonty Leff of the Workers Revolutionary Party received 81.

The turnout of 63 per cent and 41,990 votes cast was almost a carbon copy of the last election with just four less votes counted from 2010.

This turnout was the same in Leyton and Wanstead but slightly higher in Chingford and Woodford Green.