UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Philly D.]

CON gain Leigh; the blowout is on.

[Paleobrazilian]

CON gain Leigh; the blowout is on.

Wow this one had NEVER been held by the Conservatives.

[Oryxslayer]

CON gain Leigh; the blowout is on.

Yeah that was at the tail end of their potential gains. Were getting a polarizing picture tonight between the SNP, London, and The northern Tories.

[super6646]

CON gain Leigh; the blowout is on.

Wow this one had NEVER been held by the Conservatives.

Just curious, when was the seat created?

[DistingFlyer]

Some new results in the North West:

Tories pick up Leigh on a 12.2% swing (biggest yet, I think) - this has been Liberal or Labour since 1885;
Labour hold Knowsley with only a 1.7% swing against them; and
Labour hold Makerfield with a 9.0% swing against them.

All three constituencies are estimated to have voted 'Leave,' but no prizes for guessing which one did so by the smallest margin.

[Storr]

Labour gain Birkenhead.

[DistingFlyer]

I didn't check before the result came in: does anybody know what odds the BBC gave for Leigh going down? It certainly wasn't on the 'likely' list.

[jaichind]

Lab gain Putney!

Open seat and heavy remain area.

[Illiniwek]

Labour gain Birkenhead.

You mean hold?

[Paleobrazilian]

CON just took the lead on the popular vote for the 1st time tonight.

[Joe Republic]

CNN International's coverage is abysmal, as expected.  Their Analyst With The Big Digital Map^TM just claimed that Alliance has never held a seat in Parliament before.  Naomi Long would like a word.

[n1240]

I didn't check before the result came in: does anybody know what odds the BBC gave for Leigh going down? It certainly wasn't on the 'likely' list.

50/50, I wrote that all of the probabilities for the too close to call seats a couple hours ago

[Joe Republic]

Labour gain Birkenhead.

You mean hold?

Frank Field left Labour last year.  Labour just won it back from him.

[DistingFlyer]

While we wait for Sedgefield, here's another former Labour leader's constituency in: Islwyn has been held (obviously), but with a 7.8% swing against them. This is their smallest victory there since 1918 (when they gained it from the Liberals 54%-46%).

[izixs]

I'm curious to see if the Labor losses end up being such that they can finally go full anti-Brexit after this as they'll be less concerned with trying to appease the ridiculous folks on the issue.

[Storr]

Labour gain Birkenhead.

You mean hold?

The guardian shows this:

[adma]

Barnsley E: Labour plummeted 22 points: 37.6 vs Brexit 29.2 (!), two points ahead of Tories.

[Illiniwek]

Labour gain Birkenhead.

You mean hold?

Frank Field left Labour last year.  Labour just won it back from him.

Copy that.

[DistingFlyer]

Tories pick up Clwyd South on a 7.5% swing; northern Wales has certainly been good to them so far.

Labour hold Swansea West with only a 2.8% swing against them.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Imagine being a 60 year old British guy from the northeast who has voted Labour his entire life, hates Thatcher with a passion, but looks at Boris and goes “hey I know he went to the most elite school in the country and was born into wealth but he wears his hair in a weird style so yeah I think he’s one of us”

Well Labour has never nominated someone as horrible as Corbyn before

You know what? That's fair. Not that it excuses opting for f**king Boris Johnson instead, but it is true.

[Intell]

Hot take: Labour would have lost these Northern seats no matter what candidate was leader. Corbyn might have stopped more urban middle class areas swing hard to labour, and that may have been his failure.

[DistingFlyer]

Labour hold Llanelli with an 8.8% swing against them.

BBC gave only a 50% chance of the Tories picking up Gower, but I'll wager now that they've won it.

[Paleobrazilian]

Jo Swinson is about to be unseated. Best moment of the night coming soon.

[n1240]

Hartlepool held by Labour with considerable majority despite exit poll giving Tories 51% chance to win.

Bury North and Bury South both reportedly heading towards recounts, both too close to call seats.

[Oryxslayer]

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

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