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

[The Free North]

In 2010 for example, the BBC made a big fanfare of playing Big Ben strike ten as they put out the poll.

Lol.

And when can be official results?

From what I know, every constituency declares their own result at some point after 10pm local time. There are constituencies which take until tomorrow morning or noon to declare, so a UK-wide result should be known tomorrow at some point.

This is correct.  The first results will almost certainly be from the Sunderland constituencies, perhaps an hour or so after the polls close.  Most others will declare some time between about 1am and 6am local time.  A handful will wait until tomorrow to count, and some very close results may also declare very late.  IIRC in 1997 Winchester (where the majority was 2) didn't declare until mid afternoon on the Friday (and of course the result was later declared void and there was a by-election, which, um, wasn't quite as close...).

Ahhh.

That's why I love the Austrian way of elections: Polls are open from 6am to 5pm on Sunday. Vote counting takes 2 hours. Pundits analyse the results until 10pm. Everyone goes to sleep.

Things tend to be a bit easier when your country has the population of New Jersey

[The Free North]

Question for those more familiar with UK politics: why is Scotland so liberal and how long has it been more liberal than England?

[The Free North]

EUIV can do amazing things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srGM9vnoFM

[The Free North]

In gym, saw exit polls



U wot m8

[The Free North]

UKIP is arguing against FPTP...how shocking

[The Free North]

Is there a map where live results are being uploaded to?

[The Free North]

Is there a map where live results are being uploaded to?

Yes, there are many such, but in Britain partial results are never reported -- seats announce the total vote figures when they have counted all votes. Thus, so far all maps are blank.

How long does it usually take for all results to filter in?

[The Free North]

BBC need to get their sh**t together here

[The Free North]

Rockefeller ice > tile map

[The Free North]

Labour felled by Scottish Nationalists and Ulster Unionists

[The Free North]

In this time of electoral confusion I think we know the only person who can bring some sanity to this situation

[The Free North]

[The Free North]

Im not sure if anyone has realized, but we just have 1 exit poll...so we can't make any judgements, because its just 1 exit poll.

[The Free North]

ONLY 1 EXIT POLL

[The Free North]

Lib Dems are getting slaughtered everywhere.

[The Free North]

It really does appear that the Lib Dems are losing at everyone else's expense.

Such is the problem when attempting to hold down centrist voters I suppose.

[The Free North]

UKIP getting next to nothing again in conservative constituencies

[The Free North]

Pretty clear that the Lib Dem votes are going more towards the conservatives than labor at this point.

[The Free North]

So is Clegg going to lose?

[The Free North]

Why the hell were the polls so wrong?

I must admit I was suspecting that this might be 92-redux.

It seems that Lib Dem voters are going for either UKIP/Conservatives but never both when it might prevent the conservatives from beating out Labour. In other words, while UKIP may still get somewhere close to what they got in the polls, their vote is being disproportionally reduced in tight races which strategically boosts conservative totals.

Combine that with the disaster in Scotland, which was not going to be stopped by anything Labour did and will almost exclusively hurt them, and you have a disaster for the red party tonight.

[The Free North]

This system must be incredibly annoying for political junkies in the UK...polls don't close until late in the night, no real results at 2 AM.


I guess in the US we can go to bed knowing whats going on (barring a Florida 2000 disaster).

[The Free North]

Lid Dem house of cards...genius BBC

[The Free North]

ugh, this is annoying. I don't want a damn house of cards. Just give me numbers, dude.

This is how you fill dead air on network programming...take note CNN

[The Free North]

Another win for the conservatives

Labor targets not being hit here, do they still have a chance to rectify this later?

Also: greens higher than Lib Dems

[The Free North]

Perhaps this is simpler than we thought before: for labor things are neutral at best and at worse are swinging slightly to the conservatives