UK General Election, 2017 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Helsinkian]

Fife North East: SNP wins by 2 votes.

[Lachi]

NORTH EAST FIFE IS HELD BY SNP BY 2 VOTES!

[Illiniwek]

No Why couldn't LD squeak this one out. 2 measly votes.

[MAINEiac4434]

Two votes in North East Fife.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

Plaid Cymru gained a seat (Ceredigion) from the Lib Dems

[Kamala]

Final scores in Scotland, in seats:
SNP 35
Conservative 13
Labour 7
Lib Dem 4

If I were a person who time traveled here from 2010, I'd believe all of those parties and numbers were mismatched - ex Labour - 35, SNP - 13 , LD - 7, and Con - 4

[Badger]

Seriously, I'm no expert on British elections, but when's the last time the Torie's had this many seats in Scotland?

1983

since the Thatcher slide? Damn! I repeat my earlier question. What happened? 

[136or142]

Feel free to ignore if this has already been discussed, but what has the relationship historically been between the Tories and DUP? Is a coalition all but inevitable, or will there be a good deal of wrangling between the two?

I don't know about the long ago history of the two parties, but in the late days of the John Major government from 1992-1997, the Conservatives fell to a minority situation and had to depend on the DUP for support (or maybe it was the UUP.)  Whichever it was, the Conservatives did not want to be closely associated with either party. However, this was before the Irish agreements. So, maybe the DUP is nowhere near as toxic as it was back then, especially now that the vile Ian Paisley is no longer leader.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I'm invested in Richmond Park because I want to see Zac Goldsmith get humiliated yet again.

[MAINEiac4434]

"If Corbyn does take Labour to 40%, he'll have done more to increase his party's share of the vote than anyone since Attlee in 1945."

Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator.

[MAINEiac4434]

Seriously, I'm no expert on British elections, but when's the last time the Torie's had this many seats in Scotland?

1983

since the Thatcher slide? Damn! I repeat my earlier question. What happened? 

In a word: Indy Ref detoxified the Tory brand in Scotland.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I'll say it--I was dead wrong about Corbyn.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

What's the deal with Cornwall? Looks like all the outstanding constituencies are there.

[Tender Branson]

Very unexpected result.

I expected the former UKIP voters to break heavily for the Conservatives, but it seems they went to Labour with about 60%.

[Lachi]

turnout for 18-25 year olds was 72%

[justfollowingtheelections]

Seriously, I'm no expert on British elections, but when's the last time the Torie's had this many seats in Scotland?

1983

since the Thatcher slide? Damn! I repeat my earlier question. What happened? 

In a word: Indy Ref detoxified the Tory brand in Scotland.

The last election where the SNP won almost every seat was after the independence referendum.  I think the question was what happened after the last election.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Labour about to pick up safe Tory but very Remain seat of Kensington in London.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Turnout among young voters played a big role, they actually turned out.

[justfollowingtheelections]

I am extremely happy for Corbyn.  He really gave all those clowns in the labour party a huge lesson.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Oh well. He's still a pathetic posh phony.

[OSR stands with Israel]

this election almost turned out to be an utter disaster .

[136or142]

This election is kind of disgusting:

"We have a well hung parliament and we wait to see who can erect a majority government."

British people should be ashamed of themselves!

[Sumner 1868]

this election almost turned out to be an utter disaster .

Corbyn could well be PM by the end of the year, so...

[Matty]

How in the hell is corbyn winning these upper income areas in outer london?

Looks like upper income suburbs are doing in the UK what they did in the US- trend to the left.

The difference of course is that hillary was a "moderate" democrat with much safer, less radical economic views than corbyn.

Corbyn winning some of these upper income districts is something I simply cannot explain.

Literally everything I thought I knew about suburbs was destroyed tonight. I truly thought corbyn was going to get crushed in them, because they seemingly disagree with him on nearly every issue.

Yet here we are.

Why in the HELL are rich english voters voting for this man? How does it even make sense? What did May do?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Literally everything I thought I knew about suburbs was destroyed tonight.

This is one of the best sentences I've ever read. I'm not being sarcastic.