The Altrincham and Sale West seat which long-standing Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady decided not to contest again passed into Labour hands.
And a 16.2% swing away from the Tories saw Bolton West became a Labour seat for the first time since 2015.
Its MP Phil Brickell said he was “really pleased” to see that “across all three Bolton constituencies we have returned Labour members of parliament for the first time in quite a while”.
James Frith won back the seat he lost in 2019, a defeat that he said was “very real, both for me and the Labour Party”.
In Bury South, Christian Wakeford, who crossed the floor and joined Labour from the Conservatives in 2022, sailed to victory under the Labour flag for the first time.
The Lib Dem success in Cheadle was followed in neighbouring Hazel Grove, where Lisa Smart won the formerly Conservative seat.
A 16.1% swing saw Labour’s Jo Platt regained the Leigh and Atherton seat she lost to the Conservatives in 2019. She said people had “voted for change, and now we have got to see it”.
