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

[The Free North]

It really does appear that the Lib Dems are losing at everyone else's expense.

Such is the problem when attempting to hold down centrist voters I suppose.

[afleitch]

A Conservative majority is not out of sight. We need actual marginals though.

[Famous Mortimer]

BBC feed appears to be working again.

[jaichind]

Political markets

CON            314
LAB             246
LD                14.5
UKIP              3.5
SNP              55


CON and SNP continue to gain

[Vosem]

Lab win Newcastle upon Tyne Center. Tooting moved to 47-42 Labour in 2015 from 44-39 Labour in 2010; swing from minor to major parties, but basically no movement between the Top Two.

[The Free North]

UKIP getting next to nothing again in conservative constituencies

[BaconBacon96]

BBC says Patrick Sawer says that the exit poll underestimated the Tories by one and overestimated Labour by one...indicating an even worse night for Labour.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I'd say things could be worse, but at this point, they really couldn't.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Tories up 5% in Battersea, Lib Dems, Green and UKIP all lost deposits. No surprises here.

[Јas]

Ashcroft "Post Vote Day Poll, 7 May 2015"

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

It must suck to be a pollster right now.

[Vosem]

Battersea:
52% Conservative
37% Labour
4% Liberal Democrat
3% Green
3% UKIP

2010:
47% Conservative
35% Labour
15% Liberal Democrat
1% Green
1% UKIP

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

This turned into a surprisingly amusing election night. ^^

[Colbert]

quite good drawing of brit leaders

[The Other Castro]

Does anyone have the schedule for when constituencies announce their results?

[The Free North]

Pretty clear that the Lib Dem votes are going more towards the conservatives than labor at this point.

[afleitch]

Swing to the Conservatives in Wrexham

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Swing to the Conservatives in Wrexham

Labour - 37.2%
Tories - 31.6%
UKIP  - 15.5%
Independent - 7.6%
LD - 5.3%
Plaid Cymru - 2.0%
Independent - 0.6%

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Does anyone have the schedule for when constituencies announce their results?

The Press Association have a list but it's essentially fiction.  Swindon was expected to be a late declarer.

[Vosem]

Wrexham:
37% Labour
32% Conservative
16% UKIP
8% Plaid Cymru
5% Liberal Democrat (keep deposit)
2% Green
1% Independent

2010:
37% Labour
26% Liberal Democrat
25% Conservative
6% Plaid Cymru
3% BNP
2% UKIP

[The Free North]

So is Clegg going to lose?

[Gallium]

Swings away from Labour in London and now Wales is just terrible.

[ObserverIE]

Eastleigh gone from Lib Dem to Tory. Colchester and Cheltenham in trouble. Orkney and Shetland too close to call. They may hold Carshalton.

Back to the days of a taxi for the Lib Dem parliamentary party.

[morgieb]

Why the hell were the polls so wrong?

I must admit I was suspecting that this might be 92-redux.

[Torie]

Tories up 5% in Battersea, Lib Dems, Green and UKIP all lost deposits. No surprises here.

Labour was supposed to do particularly well around London. Not in Putney. Wonder what will happen in Finchley.