UK Election - Results Thread

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The Lib Dems were projected to win 53 seats in the 2005 BBC Exit Poll....they in fact won 62 seats.

Stop being reasonable. This thread will have none of that nonsense.

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Interesting snippets on the BBC's election liveblog once in awhile:

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Arnie's called Cameron to congratulate him.

lol

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Another exit poll:

Conservatives - 305
Labour - 255
Liberal Democrats - 61
Other - 29

Substitute "Another" for "Slightly revised version of the same skeptical exit poll released the first time" please.

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According to Twitter rumours, the Tories have won in Battersea.

We all know how reliable Twitter is.

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Finally some decent news for the LibDems, the slight swing toward them there.

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Thank God.

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This election is quite literally retarded.

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Tories 2.5 M (75)
Lab 2.2 M (76)
Lib Dem 1.6M (9)

Patently unfair.

Incredibly.

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Redcar has to be a huge swing, more than 15%. The LDs had been talking it up, but really...

According to the BBC website, the swing was 21.8% to the LibDems there.

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Labour: 3.9 million votes, 121 seats
Liberal Democrats: 3.1 million votes, 23 seats

Awesome

England Results:
LD 24.8%, 15 Seats
Lab 24.1%, 59 Seats

An absolute tragedy for any democratic system.

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Labour: 3.9 million votes, 121 seats
Liberal Democrats: 3.1 million votes, 23 seats

Awesome

England Results:
LD 24.8%, 15 Seats
Lab 24.1%, 59 Seats

An absolute tragedy for any democratic system.

Please, maybe the LibDems should work harder at building a base- other than yuppies.

I don't care how the hell you insult them, the voting system is atrocious and incredibly slanted against them. When party that is gaining more votes in England at the moment than Labour is but has a fourth of their seats, something is horribly, horribly wrong.

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LibDems, at least, just gained from the Conservatives in Wells.

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The LD performance has been absolutely bizarre horrible tonight.

I wouldn't call it "horrible." Bizarre is the right word. They're kept down because of an unfortunate voting system and they've gained seats where they weren't expected to gain, but they also lost seats they would usually be expected to hold. The LibDems have also increased their overall share of the vote, if only slightly. Bizarre is certainly the correct word.

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The LD performance has been absolutely bizarre horrible tonight.

I wouldn't call it "horrible." Bizarre is the right word. They're kept down because of an unfortunate voting system and they've gained seats where they weren't expected to gain, but they also lost seats they would usually be expected to hold. The LibDems have also increased their overall share of the vote, if only slightly. Bizarre is certainly the correct word.

No, I understand your opinion, but politics is all perception. The perception is, barring any glorious coalition, a disaster for a former god-like Clegg.... only last week...

Politics is about perception with fickle people who listen to the news as they're passing by the TV. I prefer Atlas to be above that.

LibDems, at least, just gained from the Conservatives in Wells.

Offset by a Conservative pickup from the Lib Dems in Camborne & Redruth.  By 66 votes.

Sadly.

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LD gains Bradford East. Like I said: bizarre

And another gain in Solihull.

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Hampstead and Killburn is basically a three-way tie, but Glenda Jackson (Lab) holds on.

At this point it's looking like a Lab-Lib-SDLP (-SNP? -PC? -Green?) would be an impossible and unwieldy joke. There's no way that lasts for more than a few weeks, resulting in a snap election and probably a solid Tory majority.

Also looks like Cameron won't be able to go it alone though, without at least some concessions to the Lib Dems. Probably no electoral reform though.

Yeah, I think, when all is said and done, Brown might be able to scrape up just enough votes by picking off people here there and everywhere + the LibDems, but it would be a ridiculous coalition that would be incredibly incredibly precarious, and the act would likely piss off voters. There's no need to empower Cameron and the Tories by engaging in obscene dealing when his position is just slightly less shaky as yours would be. Wait awhile, make a fuss perhaps a year down the road, and perhaps if the boat is rocked enough another election could be forced.

The sad thing is though, what you mentioned. With no solid coalition available it seems that much needed more proportional electoral reform will go forgotten once again, since the Conservatives would struggle very much under some sort of proportional representation system. Labour currently has 8.1 million votes, and the LibDems have a total of 6.4 million votes, but the LibDems have roughly a fifth of the seats that Labour does. It's an absolute disgrace for any democratic system and desperately, desperately needs fixed, because it is incredibly unfair to millions of people. Hopefully someday it's dealt with.

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I am of course naturally dissapointed that it wasn't a better night for the Conservatives; their projected seat tally is not too shabby, they have gained more seats in one election for generations.

Key word in bold.

After listening to the BBC for hours and hearing tory hacks repeat that, I respond with the usual response on the BBC. Gains are irrelevant, it's the seats that matter, and it's quite clear that the public wasn't completely taken with the Conservatives even after all the moderating 'progressive conservative' nonsense.