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When a sitting MP loses their seat, it happens in public, On Stage , with The Other candidates, as the results will be announced - But what happens to the people who work behind the scenes?

If an MP is not re-elected, your employees are in the Parliament and in her constituency - also unnecessary.

Omar Sharif works as a Parliamentary assistant by Jo Platt , who was MP for Leigh, in Greater Manchester , a former Labour stronghold, and the former headquarters of the Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham .

Ms Platt, is who is to participate, lost his seat to the Conservatives after a massive 14% swing against their party.

Mr Sharif describes The Feeling as a kind of "mourning".

"It's terrible, I mean I was at The Count , and I did try something, and if the numbers in the coming, you are basically looking at your own redundancy before your eyes.

"Horrible. It's disgusting, it's fear-inducing is. Every door you knock, or every conversation you have, and you say that you think voting Tory, you, "wow, that is a letter from my P45 right there. "

Mr Sharif also noted that the prospect of unemployed Labour ' s made "heart-breaking" choice defeat an even worse Experience .

Omar Sharif election campaign with the former Labour MP Jo Platt in the choice

"I don't know what is worse, to be honest. it is, to lose twice to lose a campaign and a job at the same time. "

Many employees work for labour and The Other opposition parties, at The Party 's headquarters and throughout the country, even in the face of an uncertain future, as budgets are cut, after The General elections.

'Desperately sad'

But for those who work directly for MPs - the-bag-carrier, speech writer, caseworkers and administrative assistants, who keep the wheels of democracy turn - the termination of employment is faster and probably more brutal.

the deputies and their Staff have up to two months to wind up their offices and depending on the length of service, some employees receive a severance payment,

Labour activist and parliamentary assistant, Jake Kelly , the former MP Graham Jones

Jake Kelly , who works for Graham Jones , another of the 59 Labour MPs lost their seats in The General election, says it was "surreal" to have to go back to Westminster, after the Election Night .

"[It was] desperately sad as an employee, as someone who works for an MP, you see, very slowly, over the course of Three Hours , your work is counted, every single vote is to be employed, a step away from me," he says.

But he adds: "I believe that someone would ask for public sympathy, we know what we are started. We knew that the type of employment, we were to apply. "

Callum Littlemore, who works for the Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds , who describes to the Conservatives just four months after winning in a by-election, in his "sense of grief".

"Both in the sense that this person works for you, and you put all that time, has not been returned or rewarded for the hard work you have done and also it is a couple of weeks before Christmas and you are set to be dismissed, and you have your whole life change in the New Year . "

Jane Dodds congratulates the victory of the Tory candidate Fay Jones

Only seven Conservative MPs lost their seats, as The Party romped to an 80-seat majority.

Ruairi Hodges, who is working for the former Conservative MP Lukas Graham - who lost his Ochil and South Perthshire, the seat of the SNP - was lost among those who had to return to the house the work.

Describes how each of The Other Conservatives on the ground, where he had worked, was re-elected, he said: "I was really happy for you that you would be back to grab But then I have my office. "

But as The Other employees that we talked, he was sanguine about his loss of jobs.

"When I started, they called the election movements to the left, right and center, so I was under no illusions, I knew it was very precarious. "

you Work for an MP,

There are many employment seems to be opportunities for the redundant employees.

The W4MP website that is called "the Website for all that is for an MP", at present, including jobs with MPs, think tanks and campaign groups.

But the vast majority of vacancies in London, suggesting the Outlook is less bright for those who have lost their work in the constituency offices.

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constituency caseworkers deal with the less glamorous end of the policy, and their jobs have more in common with Social Work .

you stand in front of the task, to try and help, sometimes desperate individuals with complicated immigration or housing problems, have contacted their MP as a last resort.

A once-a clerk, Charlotte Hall, who worked for former Labour MP for South Stockton, Paul Williams : "All I can think about the people I help, is says like once a clerk, and what is going to happen. "

"All The Names " of the people she had dealt with, were to go "through [their] head," since the election result, Bbc News told.

"I cared so much about everyone. The reason why I'm in this job because I knew that I have the opportunity will there be for people who have had to struggle. "

Some employees, such as Omar Sharif , believe that more should be done to the workers to help, if you have been dismissed.

While you have made the efforts of the Political Parties , such as circulating CVS of the people, which he says continue as a Parliamentary Staff : "I think we could be much better than we, to be honest. "

But adds: "We don't do this job for the recognition, we do it because we love it. "

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Source of news: bbc.com