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

[morgieb]

Looks like the Lib Dems might struggle to field a cricket/football (soccer) team.

That will only be good if Clegg went down with the ship though.

[DC Al Fine]

Well this makes up for my Alberta disappointment

[ChrisDR68]

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

Towards the Conservatives and UKIP about equally it looks like.

[Јas]

Recount in Nuneaton, per BBC

[Torie]

Is there any seat that Labour might take from the Tories anywhere? I guess we will find out soon. They are set for their best shot right about now.

[Torie]

But the DUP just lost a seat.

[Torie]

Recount in Nuneaton, per BBC

I think that seat was about number 3 of the Tory held Labour targets.

[The Free North]

Why the hell were the polls so wrong?

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

It seems that Lib Dem voters are going for either UKIP/Conservatives but never both when it might prevent the conservatives from beating out Labour. In other words, while UKIP may still get somewhere close to what they got in the polls, their vote is being disproportionally reduced in tight races which strategically boosts conservative totals.

Combine that with the disaster in Scotland, which was not going to be stopped by anything Labour did and will almost exclusively hurt them, and you have a disaster for the red party tonight.

[DC Al Fine]

So it's near 2am UK time and the BBC feed has 11 seats in. Is this unusual?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Recount in Nuneaton, per BBC

I think that seat was about number 3 of the Tory held Labour targets.

No its about 38.

[ObserverIE]

Conservatives outpoll Susan-Anne White by three votes in West Tyrone. 169 to 166.

SDLP majority up in Foyle.

[Silent Hunter]

Slightly unusual yes...

Labour's current projected performance isn't good enough and if borne out in the results, Ed Miliband needs to go.

[afleitch]

Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

[Clyde1998]

So it's near 2am UK time and the BBC feed has 11 seats in. Is this unusual?

The wave will hit around 2ish.

[Phony Moderate]

Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

Good ing riddance if so.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

What's Murphy's seat?

[The Free North]

This system must be incredibly annoying for political junkies in the UK...polls don't close until late in the night, no real results at 2 AM.


I guess in the US we can go to bed knowing whats going on (barring a Florida 2000 disaster).

[afleitch]

Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

What's Murphy's seat?

East Renfrewshire. Former rock solid Tory, Labour since 1997.

[Vosem]

Lagan Valley is a DUP hold over UUP, 48-15 (it was 50-21 in 2010), while Foyle is an SDLP hold over Sinn Fein, 48-32 (it was 45-32 in 2010).

[jaichind]

Political markets

CON             319
LAB              240
LD                 14
UKIP               2.5
SNP               55.5

CON back up to what the orig exit polls projected.

[The Free North]

Lid Dem house of cards...genius BBC

[Kushahontas]

ugh, this is annoying. I don't want a damn house of cards. Just give me numbers, dude.

[afleitch]

Rumours of Hartlepool recount. Any news?

[The Free North]

ugh, this is annoying. I don't want a damn house of cards. Just give me numbers, dude.

This is how you fill dead air on network programming...take note CNN

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I know this is just a function of what results have come in so far, but I find it really amusing that, on the BBC results page, three Northern Irish parties are currently ahead of the Lib Dems in total vote count.