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

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To speed things up, I suggest using my idea:  take all the ballots, put them in a big pile, and randomly pick one.  Whoever is marked on that ballot wins!

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There's panic on the streets of carlisle, dublin, dundee, humberside.

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Political betting markets at  

Con 306 .. Lab 252 .. LibDem 26.5 .. SNP 46.5

So the exit polls it not completely believed.

I wouldn't want to be one of those M.Ps cut in half!

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Why does it take over 9 hours to count the ballots?

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9 hours to count the ballots in some ridings! I repeat my idea: take all the ballots cast, put them in a pile and pick one at random. Whichever party is marked on that ballot wins.

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Conservatives would have defeated Labour even if Scotland had stuck with Labour.

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SNP will finish with 56/59 seats in Scotland. Wow.

All is not lost for another referendum though. SNP are on 50% of the vote.

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Does anybody have the vote share for London?

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Does anybody have the vote share for London?

LAB           45      43.7%
CON          27      34.9%
LD              1         7.8%
UKIP           0         8.1%
Green         0         4.9%

Thanks!

Where did you find that from?

Lib Dem got the same vote share (less 0.1%) in London as their national result.

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This election result was similar to 1987 in at least 3 ways:
1.Although the share of the vote for both Labour and Conservative was lower in 2015 than in 1987, in both elections the gap between the 2 parties was around 7%.

2.Although the final seat result in this election was 331-232 while in 1987 it was 336-271, if you gave Labour the 40 seats back from the largely even more left wing SNP this election would be 331-272.

3.In both 1987 and 2015 the polls were pretty much tied with most analyists predicting that Labour would have the slightly better possibility of forming a government.

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This election result was similar to 1987 in at least 3 ways:
1.Although the share of the vote for both Labour and Conservative was lower in 2015 than in 1987, in both elections the gap between the 2 parties was around 7%.

2.Although the final seat result in this election was 331-232 while in 1987 it was 336-271, if you gave Labour the 40 seats back from the largely even more left wing SNP this election would be 331-272.

3.In both 1987 and 2015 the polls were pretty much tied with most analyists predicting that Labour would have the slightly better possibility of forming a government.

I think you mean 1992 not 1987

Oops, thanks for the correction.