In the East Midlands I don’t think Lab really held up, and swings were big around us. It switched from 26 Labour 19 Tory to 31 Tory 15 Labour, and all that Lab have left are in Derby, Nottm, Leicester and 5 at the North end, which are:

Ashfield (ex-Hoon): Majority down from 10k to 200. 17.2% swing Lab to LD. Was 18k in 1997.
Bolsover (Dennis Skinner): They’ll keep that but he will go soon, and even his majority was quite a bit down to 11k after an 11.2% swing to Con.
Mansfield – 9.5% swing Lab to Con. Maj 6k.
Chesterfield won back from LDs. 3.8% swing LD to Lab. Apparently caused by recovering Tories taking LD votes. Incidentally losing LD was an NSS Honorary Associate.
Derbyshire NE: 8.6% swing Lab to Con. Majority now under 2k.

It will all turn next time on how the new coalition does, and how Lab rebuild themselves. I’d suggest that tribal Labour is dying out rapidly with the mine generation.

Perhaps the West Mids are different?