UK General Election, 2017 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Kamala]

I hope it's not B(d)o(nald)ris.

[Kamala]

Would May be the shortest PM in office ever?

Since Andrew Bonar Law in the 20s, yes.

Lol Bonar Law (one of the funniest names in political history)

Dick. Armey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Kox

[Kamala]

How is Sarah Olney looking?

[Kamala]

Sinn Fein won't take their seats to support a Labour government, per https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/872931498906832898

[Kamala]

What constituency is predicted to be next?

[Kamala]

Well, there's a definite silver lining: at least UKIP is basically dead.

[Kamala]

Lib Dems worried Nick Clegg is going to get axed.

To Labour or Tories?

[Kamala]

Who will win the crucial Jane Eyre vote in Gateshead?

[Kamala]

How much longer until Nuneaton? (How does one pronounce that? New-knee-uh-ton or New-nay-ton or something else?)

[Kamala]

Shadow Foreign minister Thornberry believes Corbyn could govern without a coalition ... https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/872954793597296640

[Kamala]

Given these swings then where are the LIB  going to gain seats to get up to double digits ?

Scotland (Edinburgh West, East Dunbartonshire), Kingston and Surbiton, Bath

How about Cambridge? Or is that looking safer for Labour now?

[Kamala]

2.2% swing from CON to LAB in Broxbourne (held by Conservatives, though)

[Kamala]

This election is an utter disaster and now the west will have zero good leaders left .


USA , Canada, UK(If exit poll is right) , Germany leaders are going to be nothing but a nightmare for the world.


Man Imagine the Leaders in the World were

USA: John Kasich
UK: David Cameron
Canada: Stephen Harper
France: Francois Fillion

Seems too good to be true

my list of leaders or the exit poll or even both

Leaders

In the 1980s we had


USA: Ronald Reagan
UK: Margaret Thatcher
Canada: Brian Mulroney
Germany: Helmut Kohl



That may have been the dream team though

I think FDR, Churchill, De Gaulle, and Curtin were pretty good too!

[Kamala]

I think I just heard that Labour believes they have won Colne Valley, according to BBC

That would be nearly a 5% swing, no?

[Kamala]

.5% swing in South Shields from CON to LAB

[Kamala]

Any chance of a Grand Coalition like in Germany?

I think I asked this same question in 2015 when the exit polls showed a minority government with the large loss of seats for the Liberal Democrats.

Is there a world war going on?

[Kamala]

Off topic, but I really like how each constituency has its own name - wish we had that in the US. I think I read somewhere that such specific locale-naming of electoral districts could help reduce gerrymandering slightly.

[Kamala]

The NYTimes results map is great, but it would be perfect if they showed the vote totals as well.

Link?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/08/world/europe/british-general-election-results-analysis.html

[Kamala]

Apparently Labour also picked up Aberconwy in Wales.

[Kamala]

.8% swing in Jarrow from CON to LAB.

[Kamala]

CON hold Basildon South and Thurrock East.

[Kamala]

1.5% swing from CON to LAB in Llanelli (Wales)

[Kamala]

Hermon holds in North Down. (NI)

[Kamala]

LAB hold Wigan.

[Kamala]

LAB hold Makerfield.