UK General Election, 2017 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Baki]

Will there be any official reports on turnout numbers or is that not the practice in the UK?

[Klartext89]

This is totally anecdotal of course, but I was talking to some of the people I used to work with in London. In 2015, I would say about 70% voted Conservative, this time, not a single one is.

Obviously, middle class twenty-somethings in London are a bit of an odd demographic in this election, but there are definitely a crowd of more-or-less socially liberal, right leaning voters who are plumping for the Communist over the Fascist.

Sure sure.

What always amuses me on Election Days are the stories told by Lefties. The best are:

- All Cons/Republicans/Right-Wingers I know (and I know a lot despite living in a left-wing bubble with of course no immigrants, older People outside family and people I disagree with cause I'm totally tolerant except for other opinions) stay home/vote the other way.
- Turnout in my left-wing are is skyrocking, never have I seen such a long queue
- I spoke with people in the line and all were voting left-wing, some haven't voted in 100 years, even people normally voting the other side admitted proudly they support us.
- texted with a friend in a heavily rural area and NOBODY was in the voting room when he voted, turnout is down there.


We'll see how it turns out, maybe you should look more at the weather forcast cause it's your side depending on low information, sluggish voters to come out.

Can you actually read English?

ah, forget it, I don't want to engage with the living embodiment of a logical fallacy.

No surprise cause you're totally disarmed. But to reassure you: I never expected that you would be able to discuss with me, that's why I'm simply making fun of your sweet FakeNews.

But keep on texting with your imaginary colleagues, maybe you will find out that the turnout in Remain areas is skyrocking while Leave Areas have empty voting boots.

[Klartext89]

Will there be any official reports on turnout numbers or is that not the practice in the UK?

I have never seen that in the UK in past elections through the day.

[Phony Moderate]

You get rumours and reports throughout the day but nothing official. In general these tend to overestimate turnout.

[parochial boy]

Klartext, serious question, do you know the difference between fact and fiction?

[ApatheticAustrian]

If somebody is interested, Klartext means, more or less, plain language and i think the description is descriptive enough.

btw...growth rates in the EU for the first quarter of 2017:

[ApatheticAustrian]

interesting decrease after 1997.....was blair depressing his opponents so much?

[Klartext89]

THe RINO strikes again, lmao, embarrassing.

Only a few hours more and the Islamist lover, anti-semite Socialist nightmare is prevented for another 5 years.

Sad!

Also, mind you, there's a reason why I don't have a blue avatar. I have to say, your "Leftists are spreading fake turnout reports but bad weather in some Labour areas means they are toast" shtick is hilarious, though. Your argument is self-contradictory.

LOL I haven't said that, they are toast cause they are a party of yesterday with ideas from the 19th century and a Leader who should never ever have a shot at any Office.

I only said that the weather forecast is much more telling than rumours or the typical left-wing FakeNews on election day.

But honestly, who cares. I can wait a few more hours to cheer.

[Klartext89]

If somebody is interested, Klartext means, more or less, plain language and i think the description is descriptive enough.

btw...growth rates in the EU for the first quarter of 2017:

It means #HighEnergy - the opposite of #lowenergy ;-)

Yeah and the financial market London is heading to Frankfurt, I know. Not even worth looking at.

[ApatheticAustrian]

May plans post-election offer on citizens’ rights
http://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-may-citizens-rights-offer-plan-post-election-brexit-eu/?utm_content=buffer2550e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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well....i guess talking too much about brexit during the campaign would have been ....difficult.

[jaichind]

Predictit seems to imply around 360-365 CON seats while betfair seem to imply around 370 CON seats.

[IceAgeComing]

Klartext; shouldn't you be getting back to washing your collection of black shirts rather than posting in here?  I'm sure that we'd all be grateful, its not like your posts are at all remotely interesting or true anyway...

is a seat only declared in the uk after all the votes in a seat has been counted or do they do it like they do in the US where they call a seat as soon as the polls close

The BBC will only ever count a seat once its been formally declared, some of the other broadcasters (Sky definately do this, ITN have in the past but god knows if they do this time) will start counting seats pre-declaration based on reports from their people at the count - although because of that they only do it for seats where are clearly one way or another.  It means that they run ahead in terms of results, but usually they won't actually say what seats that they'll given away to the parties until the declaration has happened.

[Klartext89]

Klartext; shouldn't you be getting back to washing your collection of black shirts rather than posting in here?  I'm sure that we'd all be grateful, its not like your posts are at all remotely interesting or true anyway...

Truth hurts, I know. Hopefully you're not too triggered when attending your local AntiFa Clown Meeting tonight.

IpsosMori changes are interesting. Either there was no Corby surge ever and they simply came back to reality or ISIS won it for May. Both make sense.

[Phony Moderate]

And yet Corbyn has moved closer to May as preferred PM. Go figure.

[seb_pard]

This is totally anecdotal of course, but I was talking to some of the people I used to work with in London. In 2015, I would say about 70% voted Conservative, this time, not a single one is.

Obviously, middle class twenty-somethings in London are a bit of an odd demographic in this election, but there are definitely a crowd of more-or-less socially liberal, right leaning voters who are plumping for the Communist over the Fascist.

Sure sure.

What always amuses me on Election Days are the stories told by Lefties. The best are:

- All Cons/Republicans/Right-Wingers I know (and I know a lot despite living in a left-wing bubble with of course no immigrants, older People outside family and people I disagree with cause I'm totally tolerant except for other opinions) stay home/vote the other way.
- Turnout in my left-wing are is skyrocking, never have I seen such a long queue
- I spoke with people in the line and all were voting left-wing, some haven't voted in 100 years, even people normally voting the other side admitted proudly they support us.
- texted with a friend in a heavily rural area and NOBODY was in the voting room when he voted, turnout is down there.


We'll see how it turns out, maybe you should look more at the weather forcast cause it's your side depending on low information, sluggish voters to come out.

Oh the irony

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=260932.msg5620110#msg5620110

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It's ok to be a fascist, but please, try to be a consistent one.

[Tender Branson]

This is totally anecdotal of course, but I was talking to some of the people I used to work with in London. In 2015, I would say about 70% voted Conservative, this time, not a single one is.

Obviously, middle class twenty-somethings in London are a bit of an odd demographic in this election, but there are definitely a crowd of more-or-less socially liberal, right leaning voters who are plumping for the Communist over the Fascist.

Sure sure.

What always amuses me on Election Days are the stories told by Lefties. The best are:

- All Cons/Republicans/Right-Wingers I know (and I know a lot despite living in a left-wing bubble with of course no immigrants, older People outside family and people I disagree with cause I'm totally tolerant except for other opinions) stay home/vote the other way.
- Turnout in my left-wing are is skyrocking, never have I seen such a long queue
- I spoke with people in the line and all were voting left-wing, some haven't voted in 100 years, even people normally voting the other side admitted proudly they support us.
- texted with a friend in a heavily rural area and NOBODY was in the voting room when he voted, turnout is down there.


We'll see how it turns out, maybe you should look more at the weather forcast cause it's your side depending on low information, sluggish voters to come out.

Oh the irony

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=260932.msg5620110#msg5620110

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It's ok to be a fascist, but please, try to be a consistent one.

How did this French town vote this year ?

[seb_pard]

This is totally anecdotal of course, but I was talking to some of the people I used to work with in London. In 2015, I would say about 70% voted Conservative, this time, not a single one is.

Obviously, middle class twenty-somethings in London are a bit of an odd demographic in this election, but there are definitely a crowd of more-or-less socially liberal, right leaning voters who are plumping for the Communist over the Fascist.

Sure sure.

What always amuses me on Election Days are the stories told by Lefties. The best are:

- All Cons/Republicans/Right-Wingers I know (and I know a lot despite living in a left-wing bubble with of course no immigrants, older People outside family and people I disagree with cause I'm totally tolerant except for other opinions) stay home/vote the other way.
- Turnout in my left-wing are is skyrocking, never have I seen such a long queue
- I spoke with people in the line and all were voting left-wing, some haven't voted in 100 years, even people normally voting the other side admitted proudly they support us.
- texted with a friend in a heavily rural area and NOBODY was in the voting room when he voted, turnout is down there.


We'll see how it turns out, maybe you should look more at the weather forcast cause it's your side depending on low information, sluggish voters to come out.

Oh the irony

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=260932.msg5620110#msg5620110

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It's ok to be a fascist, but please, try to be a consistent one.

How did this French town vote this year ?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=262912.msg5620882#msg5620882

Macron 22,77%
LePen 22,53%
Melanchon 20,61%
Fillon 19,81%
Hamon 5,94%
Dupont 4,98%

[MT Treasurer]

So the BBC results page is pretty good, right? Any other good sites, especially one that shows the popular vote and how each constituency has voted?

[Classic Conservative]

Does anybody have a BBC Livestream link that works for the US?

[Tender Branson]

Can anyone explain to me again plz why some electoral districts are fully counted within 1 hour, while others take 6-10 hours to count their votes ?

The size of the districts is pretty much the same, right - as in # of voters per district ?

[Klartext89]

This is totally anecdotal of course, but I was talking to some of the people I used to work with in London. In 2015, I would say about 70% voted Conservative, this time, not a single one is.

Obviously, middle class twenty-somethings in London are a bit of an odd demographic in this election, but there are definitely a crowd of more-or-less socially liberal, right leaning voters who are plumping for the Communist over the Fascist.

Sure sure.

What always amuses me on Election Days are the stories told by Lefties. The best are:

- All Cons/Republicans/Right-Wingers I know (and I know a lot despite living in a left-wing bubble with of course no immigrants, older People outside family and people I disagree with cause I'm totally tolerant except for other opinions) stay home/vote the other way.
- Turnout in my left-wing are is skyrocking, never have I seen such a long queue
- I spoke with people in the line and all were voting left-wing, some haven't voted in 100 years, even people normally voting the other side admitted proudly they support us.
- texted with a friend in a heavily rural area and NOBODY was in the voting room when he voted, turnout is down there.


We'll see how it turns out, maybe you should look more at the weather forcast cause it's your side depending on low information, sluggish voters to come out.

Oh the irony

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=260932.msg5620110#msg5620110

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It's ok to be a fascist, but please, try to be a consistent one.

I didn't make up a totally laughable story of 70% Tory vote to Zero in a landslide Tory victory election but I recalled trends that were correct in the end.

But I didn't expect a Communist (btw, "Fascist" is the new code word for "not left") to understand the difference.

[Klartext89]

Can anyone explain to me again plz why some electoral districts are fully counted within 1 hour, while others take 6-10 hours to count their votes ?

The size of the districts is pretty much the same, right - as in # of voters per district ?

Britain counts in counting centers. That means the votes have to be delivered to the counting centers. The larger the are, the longer it takes and then it's about the size of counting officers employed what explains the differences.

100 are faster than 20.

[kyc0705]

Does anybody have a BBC Livestream link that works for the US?

I believe that the BBC News livestream was accessible worldwide for both the 2015 election results and the Brexit referendum.

[IceAgeComing]

I imagine that they'll be covering it on BBC World if you have that available to you - they also might stream it on the BBC website, I don't know whether the BBC News Channel is only available in the UK for streaming.  Sky have also streamed on youtube before; that might be a back-up option.

I have voted!  I was seriously thinking about going Labour in the end, but when I got there I ended up voting SNP because I have a feeling that its going to be close.  Turnout seemed pretty normal for about the time that I normally vote, the area that my polling place serves is very diverse (odd mix of middle class suburbia and a section of a deprived estate) so my hunch is that high turnout here doesn't actually benefit anyone - especially since the SNP/Tory divide isn't so much on class lines as Lab/Con is.

Truth hurts, I know. Hopefully you're not too triggered when attending your local AntiFa Clown Meeting tonight.

well that's an odd way to describe my cricket training; although i'm sure the lads won't mind being called anti-fascists, and a fair few can be rather clownish while batting...

I think that the influence that the weather has on turnout is incredibly over-rated by the way - I read something by someone who saw no significant difference in turnout or swing between places with rain and places without rain - sure if you've got like monsoon conditions or a blizzard or something then that will cut in on turnout but not just a bit of rain, we're all rather used to it.

Also from the people that I know who are Labour party members we all generally agree on the same prediction - Tory majority of 50, SNP closer to 50 then 40; Libs picking up a few in Scotland.  We'll see if that ends up being right...

[jaichind]

Sporting Index markets has around

CON         361.5
CON         206.5
LIB            12
SNP           46
PC               3.5
Greens        1
UKIP            0.5