UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

[DistingFlyer]

Rushcliffe held by Conservatives with only a 0.6% swing against them (Labour & Tory vote both down, Liberal vote well up).

Hartlepool held by Labour with a 4.8% swing against them - Labour & Tory vote both down there too, with the Brexit candidate almost taking second place.

Going back to southern Wales, Ogmore held by Labour with a 7.6% swing against them.

[Paleobrazilian]

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1205310900128886784

i guess only one of the Tories or brexit should have seriously contested here.

Yeah this should've been a CON gain. Shame on Farage.

[Simfan34]

Pour one out for Kirstene Hair, RIP a real one

[Paleobrazilian]

CON already have more seats than LAB.

[Philly D.]

Pour one out for Kirstene Hair, RIP a real one

Nah, you can keep IDS.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Not to be snarky, but has Corbyn announced his resignation yet?

[Oryxslayer]

Ed Milliband is supposedly in danger in his seat, but is expecting to hold, albeit narrowly.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Tim Farron has survived.

[rc18]

So, who succeeds Corbyn?

We need to see how many potential leaders survive...

Would have to be quite dire to lose Doncaster North! Just saying...

https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1205313278269935619

[Lisa's voting Biden]

CON gains in Blackpool South and Stockton South

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1205314401483530240

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1205314413454077952

Different stories in the southern cities and remain'y areas than the north.

[adma]

And Barnsley *Central* is 40-30 Lab-Brexit.

[Gracile]

Labour holds Battersea, one of their gains from 2017, with an increased majority.

[Storr]

Labour gain Liverpool Riverside.

[DistingFlyer]

Tories gain Wolverhampton North East on a 12.2% swing, nearly reversing the 2017 figures.

[DistingFlyer]

Looks like Gower made a liar out of me - Labour hold it with only a 1.5% swing against them! Brexit Party only on 3%, so they can't be blamed for this one.

Aberavon in now: Labour hold, with an 8.6% swing against them. Rhondda held as well, with a 7.7% swing against Labour.

[Philly D.]

CON gain  in Redcar

[Philly D.]

... and YNYS MON!!!!!

[Storr]

SNP gain Midlothian from Labour. All Scottish seats called so far have gone for the SNP.

Update: and the SNP also just gained Ochil & Perthshire South from the Tories.

[DistingFlyer]

CON gain  in Redcar

Swing of 15.4%; I think this is a new best for the night.

Ynys Mon has gone Tory too - north Wales loves the Tories tonight! A swing of 9.8% gives it to them. That seat went Conservative in 1983 & 1987, but before that you have to go back to 1722 (even further than Blyth Valley).

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Whelp. And the inevitable “What this means for the US” hot takes from clueless American pundits are pouring in... this one being the most ridiculous-

https://twitter.com/sethamandel/status/1205306618956730369

[Gass3268]

BBC is saying that the leader of the DUP could lose to Sinn Féin.

[Tintrlvr]

BBC is saying that the leader of the DUP could lose to Sinn Féin.

Deputy Leader. Arlene Foster, their leader, isn’t an MP.

The DUP getting pasted would be well deserved. At least the Alliance taking North Down is one bright spot in a dreary election.

[DistingFlyer]

. . . and Bishop Auckland falls to the Conservatives on a 9.4% swing. This seat fell in the big 1931 blowout, but otherwise has been Labour or Liberal since 1885.

[Pericles]

Aaargh the Remain vote ends up almost perfectly split in Cities of London and Westminster, letting the Tories slip back in.