UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Election Day & Results Thread)

[136or142]

9 hours to count the ballots in some ridings! I repeat my idea: take all the ballots cast, put them in a pile and pick one at random. Whichever party is marked on that ballot wins.

[Kalimantan]

Lab gain Chester and Dewsbury.

Which, just to point out for others benefit, are two separate seats, thus making the Tories hopes of an absolute majority a little less certain

[ObserverIE]

Labour gains Hove.

[BaconBacon96]

I kinda feel sorry for Nick Clegg- he'll be remembered as the guy who put his party back a good 60 years.

[Kalimantan]

Lab gain Chester and Dewsbury.

Which, just to point out for others benefit, are two separate seats, thus making the Tories hopes of an absolute majority a little less certain

ooh, and Hove (my old stomping ground, how on earth has this become a Labour seat again?!)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Because it's really not the sort of place it used to be.

[136or142]

Conservatives would have defeated Labour even if Scotland had stuck with Labour.

[Peeperkorn]

I kinda feel sorry for Nick Clegg- he'll be remembered as the guy who put his party back a good 60 years.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well the critical element (or rather a critical element) was the fear factor which was rather more of an issue than I'd hoped.

[ag]

LD hold Leeds Northwest. So, there are 8. At least, (tied for) the fourth party (with DUP)

[Talleyrand]

Michael Moore loses.

Final Scotland Results

SNP- 50% (56)
Labour- 24% (1)
CON- 15% (1)
LD- 7.5% (1)

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I was looking forward to seeing the Lib Dems get fewer seats than a Northern Irish party. Shame.

(To ag and SMilo: I don't actually hate the Lib Dems, I just don't have enough of an attachment to them not to find this amusing.)

[politicallefty]

SNP will finish with 56/59 seats in Scotland. Wow.

[Erc]

CON hold Pudsey and also Warrington South

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale, and Tweeddale sticks out like a sore thumb. As in literally that's what it looks like to me.

[Barnes]

Brighton Pavilion will be declaring in a few minutes.

[afleitch]

I'll just leave this here:

There's a bit of fear that 2010 wasn't Labour's floor. That it could sink further below what it got. The polls themselves don't show a great deal of CON to LAB switchers. There's an over-reliance on Lib Dem 2010 voters leaking back to Labour where it counts and an over expectation that UKIP won't damage them. What you could find is that in traditionally suburban seats like Bolton West that Labour hold by a gnats wing, the Lib Dem voters who have stayed with them from 1997, could leak disproportionately back to the Conservatives, gifting them the seat from Labour. There is also a problem in Scotland, which while it may be fleeting, currently shows Labour performing as badly (and the SNP performing as well) at Westminster as they are at Holyrood, with voting intentions at 2011 levels. While Labour are maxed out in Scotland, they can't really afford to fall back.

[136or142]

SNP will finish with 56/59 seats in Scotland. Wow.

All is not lost for another referendum though. SNP are on 50% of the vote.

[politicallefty]

Brighton Pavilion will be declaring in a few minutes.

It's a Green hold.

[Barnes]

Brighton Pavilion will be declaring in a few minutes.

Greens increase their majority to 8,000.

[ag]

I was looking forward to seeing the Lib Dems get fewer seats than a Northern Irish party. Shame.

(To ag and SMilo: I don't actually hate the Lib Dems, I just don't have enough of an attachment to them not to find this amusing.)

At least UKIP, for the moment, has fewer seats than the fourth largest Northern Irish Party And I do hate UKIP

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I was looking forward to seeing the Lib Dems get fewer seats than a Northern Irish party. Shame.

(To ag and SMilo: I don't actually hate the Lib Dems, I just don't have enough of an attachment to them not to find this amusing.)

At least UKIP, for the moment, has fewer seats than the fourth largest Northern Irish Party And I do hate UKIP

On that we're in agreement.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Single-member districts are real bullsh**t.
50% of votes = almost 100% of mandates. Opposite problem with UKIP. Although I am happy that UKIP will have smaller representation in House of Commons than SF but that result is like ignoring more than 3,447,467 votes.

[Joe Republic]

[politicallefty]

Sky News projects Conservative Majority, with 326 seats.