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

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https://twitter.com/holly_watt/status/596464393749188608

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Ashcroft "Post Vote Day Poll, 7 May 2015"

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Recount in Nuneaton, per BBC

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But the DUP just lost a seat.

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UUP gain South Antrim from DUP

Who is UUP? The more militant Unionist faction of old?

Less militant.

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Morley & Outwood

Andrea Jenkins (C) 18,776
Ed Balls  (L) 18,354

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Labour took Liverpool Walton with 81.3%! that's probably the highest % in this election, couldn't find a higher one in recent campaigns. is this a record?

North Down, 1959, UUP, 98%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_1950s

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Labour took Liverpool Walton with 81.3%! that's probably the highest % in this election, couldn't find a higher one in recent campaigns. is this a record?

North Down, 1959, UUP, 98%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Down_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_1950s

I hardly consider NI\Ireland elections to be fitting for the title. You got a figure for mainland Britain?

Plaistow, 1918, Labour, 94.9%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaistow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

or if by-elections count:
Middleton and Prestwich by-election, 1940, Conservative, 98.7%
(Running just against the British Union of Fascists, during WW2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton_and_Prestwich_by-election,_1940


That wiki entry did point me to:
East Kerry, 1885, Irish Parliamentary Party, 99%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Kerry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#1885

...which apparently is the record for a Westminster election.

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The excellent Irish Political Maps has the relevant election maps from Northern Ireland up:

http://irishpoliticalmaps.blogspot.ie/2015/05/uk-general-election-2015-northern.html