UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Election Day & Results Thread)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh they always know. They have to in order to request recounts (and that's another thing: parties are actually entitled to request a recount if they're on the edge of losing their deposit). After a while you learn how to read results of faces, but sometimes this can be deceptive, particularly if the winner is a right miserable bugger.

[Peter]

Somewhere in South England - LD straight ticket: the seat is going Conservative, though my council ward is actually a LD-Con marginal.

Those of you who know me from yonder year may know that I am a teacher (11-18 school). I was helping out with the school election (we had C,Lab,G,UKIP candidates) and was amazed at how the kids were energised about it today, including talking about it quite sensibly in lessons. We have about 1800 students and the turnout was over 1000, which was really good to see.

[YL]

A note about rumours after the polls close: be really really careful about believing these, unless they come from a credible source. And even then don't treat as fact. A lot of false rumours get spread around early on election nights; quite why people bother I have no idea, but they do.

Wasn't there one in 2005 where the BBC picked up some rumour that the Lib Dems had won a Birmingham seat which they actually ended up not being that close in?  I remember wondering afterwards if there'd been some sort of mix up with Yardley.

[Lief 🗽]

I read on reddit that if parliament is "doubly hung" and a new election is necessary, then the Tories would have a huge advantage because they're basically the only party that can afford to run two general election campaigns in a year. Is this true or were they being hyperbolic?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A note about rumours after the polls close: be really really careful about believing these, unless they come from a credible source. And even then don't treat as fact. A lot of false rumours get spread around early on election nights; quite why people bother I have no idea, but they do.

Wasn't there one in 2005 where the BBC picked up some rumour that the Lib Dems had won a Birmingham seat which they actually ended up not being that close in?  I remember wondering afterwards if there'd been some sort of mix up with Yardley.

Birmingham Perry Barr, yes.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I read on reddit that if parliament is "doubly hung" and a new election is necessary, then the Tories would have a huge advantage because they're basically the only party that can afford to run general election campaigns in a year. Is this true or were they being hyperbolic?

Untrue: in the event of a second election the Unions can (and indeed will) pump Labour full of cash.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It would definitely crush the Lib Dems though.

[The Free North]

EUIV can do amazing things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srGM9vnoFM

[afleitch]

It's worth noting that the BBC will only announce results after they have been declared. ITV/Sky News have a tendency to declare seats when everyone knows the outcome but it's not been declared. So they might be further ahead.

[Donnie]

any turnout informations so far?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

any turnout informations so far?

There are some rumours that it is as high, or even higher, as five years ago.
We will know nothing for certain until the seats start declaring though. 

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

In my polling station there was a moderate queue, and the workers said it was higher than average so far (this was around 6pm).

[joevsimp]

any turnout informations so far?

this is the first time I've ever had to queue to vote, although five years ago I was on the dole and voted at about half ten in the morning, rather than half six after work

[Phony Moderate]

any turnout informations so far?

There are some rumours that it is as high, or even higher, as five years ago.
We will know nothing for certain until the seats start declaring though. 

It would be a minor surprise if it were lower.

[warandwar]

Why are so many people in the UK talking about Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms?

[jaichind]

The political betting markets are slowing moving against CON.  Whereas before they had CON+LD at 315 now they are more like 312 313.

[Lief 🗽]

In honor of today's events, I am treating myself to a traditional British dish of chicken tikka masala for lunch.

[retromike22]

In honor of today's events, I am treating myself to a traditional British dish of chicken tikka masala for lunch.

No bangers and mash? What about crumpets?

[YL]

There are stories on Twitter of queues to vote in Liverpool Riverside, of all places.  But I'm always a bit sceptical of turnout rumours.

I just voted against the Deputy Prime Minister.

There was a short queue.  There weren't any tellers (people who sit outside the polling station and ask you for your registration number so that their party knows you've voted and doesn't knock on your door when they're doing their GOTV in the evening) which surprised me a bit.

... so Labour did just knock on my door doing their GOTV.

[Bacon King]

There are stories on Twitter of queues to vote in Liverpool Riverside, of all places.  But I'm always a bit sceptical of turnout rumours.

This was one of the seats the Green Party is targeting (not that it necessarily means much of anything)

[Panhandle Progressive]

Audio Only Streams (of results) will be here starting about 5pm eastern:
(These streams are not just for tonight and can be used any day)

BBC4 - http://www.listenlive.eu/bbcradio4.m3u

C-SPAN - http://edgev1.den.echo.liquidcompass.net/WCSPFMMP3

[BaconBacon96]

So how long until the first results come in?

[Lief 🗽]

holy sh[inks] this sky news set is insane, they have a giant wall of 150 live broadcasts of 150 constituencies

[Clyde1998]

So how long until the first results come in?

Sunderland North is likely declare at around an hour and a half after the close of polling.

[Torie]

So we get the exit poll in the next 50 minutes, and then nothing happens for a couple of hours until Nuneaton comes in (Labour will have a coronary if they don't nab that seat from the Tories), and then nothing more of interest for another couple of hours after that (until 9 pm EDT), other than rather irrelevant chatter, and speculation about what the exit poll portends, without really knowing. Does that about sum it up?