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

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Election Day has arrived !

Please post election day news and later the results here.

I've asked Hashemite to lock the other thread.

I saved him the bother.

Anyway, still at least another six polls (of one kind or another) to go; four voting intention polls, a "how did you vote?" poll from Populus and the exit poll at 10PM BST.

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Just voted. First time I've ever known a queue at a polling station, but then this is the first general election in which I have voted.

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Ashcroft: Lab 33 (+3), Con 33 (+1), UKIP 11 (-1), Lib Dems 10 (-1), Greens 6 (-1)

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Ipsos-MORI: Con 36 (+1) Lab 35 (+5), UKIP 11 (+1), Lib Dems 8 (nc)

Not sure about the Greens' figure.

82% say they are "absolutely certain to vote".

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Pretty much all the political betting shops odds has CON+LD around 316 seats which I guess is their basis for better than even odds for Cameron for PM.

For what it's worth, the bookies were predicting a 80-90 seat or so lead for the Tories on election day 2010.

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What websites are people using for election results?

Mostly the BBC. Possibly Twitter for rumours etc (although caution is required there).

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Also, the number of registered voters might hit 49-50 million in this election.

In the UK, there's no automatic voter registration and everyone needs to register on their own. For the first time, internet voter registration was also possible and there was a big rush in the last week.

The exact number of eligible voters and turnout will only be known after each constituency has declared their numbers, because voter registration is done by each on their own.

Which means, assuming 49.5 million eligible and 68% turnout, there will be some 33-34 million voting today.

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32625776

Some are saying that it will have had the opposite effect, though.

Incidentally 34 million would, in terms of raw numbers, be an all-time UK record. If I'm not mistaken, 1992 currently holds it.

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Rumours so far indicate a high(er than 2010) turnout in many constituencies.

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any turnout informations so far?

There are some rumours that it is as high, or even higher, as five years ago.
We will know nothing for certain until the seats start declaring though. 

It would be a minor surprise if it were lower.

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I just...urgh.

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Rumours about DUP talks etc.

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Anyone else temped to go on a Donald Trump-style Twitter meltdown?

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Andy Burnham, please save us.

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Alright, 3 frigging results at this time?

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Yvette Cooper killed my BBC stream. >: (

Yeah, mine kept replaying Dimbleby asking her "surely you can't have smiled at the exit poll" or some such.

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...and now we have Mandelson on, who I'm sure isn't heartbroken right now.

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Swindon North confirms it. RIP Labour.

Yeah, we've lost. Only Scotland has rejected the Terrible Tories.

I'm going to drink a lot more tomorrow night than I am tonight,

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Lib Dems hold first deposit (and obtain first third place) at Putney.

Greens and UKIP missed out on holding deposits by 0.2% and 0.4% respectively.

Lib Dems are getting slaughtered everywhere.

I'm starting to wonder if Clegg will actually hold his seat...

On the exit poll he most certainly won't.

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I know it's still early, but it looks like the Lib Dems might do worse than what the exit poll is suggesting.

One of the few bright points of the night, imo.

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Have the polls ever been this wrong before?

1992, 1970...always against Labour.

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Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

Good ing riddance if so.

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I hate to say this again, but....

Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham

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Christian Party get over 1,000 votes in the Western Isles.

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Good riddance to many ghastly Blairites in Scotland.

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Jo Swinson is out...again, good riddance.