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

[Paleobrazilian]

Ed Balls has lost according to twittersphere.

[ObserverIE]

Lib Dems return to same number of seats as 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1970.

[ag]

Lib Dems return to same number of seats as 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1970.

And the vote share has gone up to 7.2%. Should make 10 seats.

[Colbert]

quite goods stats and maps on sky news

[kcguy]

BBC's exit poll looking better and better.  It's taken half the night, but 538 is finally in agreement.

[ObserverIE]

Lab gain Brentford and Isleworth but lose Southampton Itchen.

Tories hold Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.

[ag]

Conservatives hold their Scottish seat. So, each of the Unionist parties has one in Scotland.

[BaconBacon96]

John Mann says it is inconceivable that Miliband leads Labour in 2020. Obviously.

[Talleyrand]

So the Tories can have a Scottish Secretary from Scotland.

[ObserverIE]

Lib Dems return to same number of seats as 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1970.

And the vote share has gone up to 7.2%. Should make 10 seats.

The only real prospect left at this stage for a hold is North Norfolk. Perhaps Hazel Grove or Cheadle.

[Talleyrand]

Esther McVey has lost.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

First result from Cornwall, Tories have held Camborne and Redruth.

[Vosem]

Lib Dems return to same number of seats as 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1970.

And the vote share has gone up to 7.2%. Should make 10 seats.

The only real prospect left at this stage for a hold is North Norfolk. Perhaps Hazel Grove or Cheadle.

Not some of the southwestern seats? Yeovil?

[ChrisDR68]

Yay Esther McVey loses in the seat that's next door to mine

[Paleobrazilian]

Tories sucessfully hold Broxtowe.

[Colbert]

i'm disappointed of the relection of clegg and the conservative hold in scotland


it would have been fun, the opposite result...



(going to bed)

[ObserverIE]

Lib Dems return to same number of seats as 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1970.

And the vote share has gone up to 7.2%. Should make 10 seats.

The only real prospect left at this stage for a hold is North Norfolk. Perhaps Hazel Grove or Cheadle.

Not some of the southwestern seats? Yeovil?

Yeovil and Thornbury & Yate both apparently gone.

[retromike22]

Popular vote % with 326 out of 650 seats:

LAB   33.1
CON   30.5
UKIP   11.2
SNP   9.0
LD   7.0
GRN   3.2

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

First result from Cornwall, Tories have held Camborne and Redruth.

Lib Dems crashed to fourth in C&R. Tories have also held both Northampton seats.

[Paleobrazilian]

538 now gives 320 seats for the Conservatives.

[Zanas]

People Before Profit (the SWP in drag) get 19.2% in Belfast West to come second behind SF.

The Tories get 34 votes.

There's at least one FF constituency in this country...

Since the exit poll, everything I see reported here seems to lessen Labour's demise and even make it possible that the Tories won't be sitting on a majority in the end. Is that so ? Haven't had a chance to look at the full results yet, and it's 6AM here and I will be needing to go to bed at one time, even if tomorrow is a holiday. But I'll just stick around a bit more since it's such a peculiar one.

[Vosem]

People Before Profit (the SWP in drag) get 19.2% in Belfast West to come second behind SF.

The Tories get 34 votes.

There's at least one FF constituency in this country...

Misread this as Fianna Fail instead of Freedom Fighter. No, not quite.

[ObserverIE]

Belfast West largely considers itself to be in the same country as the other FF...

Lab gain Norwich South from Lib Dems. This was the other seat projected to go Green on the exit polls, so both the Greens and UKIP will be one-person parties in the next parliament.

[Paleobrazilian]

Conservatives steal Gower from Labour.

[jaichind]

Conservatives steal Gower from Labour.

CON seems to be doing quite well in Wales.  And this is despite that UKIP is also doing well.  It is clear that UKIP ate into the LAB vote base in Wales by a significant margin.