Jeremy Corbyn announced the winner of the Labour Party leadership election

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour Party leadership election with a majority of 59.5%, it has been announced today.

Corbyn’s victory came in the first-round of the elections, beating fellow candidates Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.

Corbyn – who has been the MP for Islington North since 1983 – is replacing ex-leader Ed Miliband, who resigned after the 2015 General Election.

Of the 540,272 people eligible to vote, 422,664 votes were cast. 251,417 of these were for Jeremy Corbyn.

Burnham, Cooper and Kendall received a 19%, 17% and 4.5% share of the vote, respectively.

Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, was also announced as the winner of the deputy leadership contest shortly prior to Corbyn being declared the new leader.

Watson won in the third-round, with no conclusive majority won by any candidate in either the first- or second-round.

This meant the lowest scoring candidate were eliminated from each round, before the election went further.

Ben Bradshaw was eliminated after the first-round, and Angela Eagle after the second-round.

Tom Watson, Stella Creasy and Caroline Flint remained in the third-round: Watson won with 50.7% of the vote.

Creasy – well-known for her involvement in the bid for a woman to be on a UK bank note – received 26.4% of the vote share, and Flint 22.8%.

The University of Warwick Labour Club and the Non-Aligned Leftist Forum have been contacted for comment.

Last updated at 13:40, 12/09/15