Anyone think Houghton and Sunderland South will be the first constituency to be declared again this year?
Well the Sunderland South constituency has been the first to declare for every single GE in my lifetime, so it'd be quite a shocker if they didn't.
Of course, Sunderland as a whole was only second to declare in Great Britain during the EU referendum, so some other constituencies might try to beat them this year, but I doubt it.
Is there any reason why the UK counts all the ballots for each riding at once at a 'Central Office' instead at the polling station. It could take hours for all the ballots to arrive before the counting even begins.
It normally takes around 1 hour, to count the ballots at the polling station, you can phone the results to Returning Officer, which are fed the media, and have the media make projections on who won.
However, you will be missing have the Returning Officer announcing the results with the candidates.
In difference to most countries, it is not allowed to publish results by polling station in Britain. If I remember correctly, it's a long-standing tradition dating back to when powerful land-owners and factory owners punished their workers if they discovered that their local area had not voted for their favoured candidate.
