Victoria Foxcroft has been re-elected as the MP for Lewisham Deptford after Labour won the seat with a whopping 70.8 per cent of the votes.

It was declared early on Friday morning that Ms Foxcroft will return as the Labour MP for the constituency after she received 39,216 votes.

The Conservative candidate, Gavin Haran, came in at second place on election night, receiving 6,303 votes.

He was followed by Liberal Democrat Bobby Dean in third place with 5,774 votes, and Andrea Carey Fuller of the Green Party in fourth with 3,085.

The Brexit Party candidate, Moses Etienne, won 789 votes, independent Tan Bui received 130 votes, and John Lloyd from the Alliance For Green Socialism rounded off the election with 71 votes.

The seat of Lewisham Deptford has been in Labour hands since 1974, with Vicky Foxcroft now winning the last three elections.

Vicky Foxcroft said: "I wont let you down as your MP, I will stand up for you all of the time. I know we probably have a Tory Government again and I know it's going to be tough but you know what - in Lewisham Deptford, in Lewisham, we stand up for what we know is important.

"We know we're going to have so many fights and battles in the future ... but we will stand up for our local community and we will not let you decimate it."