JEREMY Corbyn’s landslide victory in Labour’s leadership election has been welcomed as a 'political earthquake' that will put 'ordinary members back in charge' by campaigners in Bournemouth.

Mr Corbyn’s meteoric rise from outspoken left wing backbencher to leader of the opposition was confirmed on Saturday after he drew 251,417 votes from his party members – a 59.5 per cent share.

Ian Malcolm-Walker, chairman of the Dorset for Jeremy group, told the Daily Echo news of the 66-year-old’s victory had left him 'ecstatic'.

“It was a political earthquake,” he said. “For the first time in 30 years ordinary members of the Labour Party, working people, are back in charge of the party they created.”

Mr Malcolm-Walker dismissed concerns about Labour MPs who stated that they will not work for Mr Corbyn in the shadow cabinet.

“Disagreement is to be expected,” he added. “Without Jeremy running there would not have been much of a debate at all.

“Jeremy has been democratically elected and there were more votes cast for him than when Tony Blair got in with a landslide in the 90s.”

He said that the dissent already shown by some party members over Mr Corbyn’s victory is a “sign of things to come”, adding: “It is up to us as Jeremy supporters to make sure we defend him.”

Asked whether he felt his views were shared by the majority of other Labour supporters in Bournemouth, Mr Malcolm-Walker said: “With 60 per cent of the vote I imagine Jeremy supporters are in the majority in constituencies across the country.”

Former Labour Poole parliamentary candidate, Helen Rosser, said she too was “immensely happy” with Mr Corbyn’s victory.

She said that he had particularly inspired young people and that the Bournemouth party now had 1,000 members, meaning they had to hire a new venue because so many turned up to meetings.

“It’s quite a clear message to everyone outside the party we are going back to the way we originally were.

“I can speak for 99 per cent of the members in Bournemouth, who were all backing Jeremy.”

But former Bournemouth Labour councillor Ben Grower said in the summer: “I think he would be an unsuitable leader of the Labour Party and not a patch on Yvette Cooper. I disagree with many of his views, especially his foreign policy and his association with Hamas and other people in the Middle East.”