UK General Election, 2017 - Election Day and Results Thread

[rob in cal]

  So, a Conservative Unionist majority by a tiny margin if the exit poll is right?

[rob in cal]

   Seems suspicious that the exit poll has a virtual 50-50 tie of Tories/Unionists vs everybody else. (Good for ratings).

[rob in cal]

  Is there a handy list of the closest results, say under 4% victory margin?

[rob in cal]

  Just tabulated all results under a 1600 vote winning margin in which the Conservatives were one of the top two.  Turns out they won 26 of those, lost 28, so pretty close to a wash.

[rob in cal]

   I wonder what accounts for Labour's strong performance in London?  Better young voter turnout, more and more non-white British entering the electorate and turning out to vote, former Tories upset about Brexit, a mixture of all three perhaps?

[rob in cal]

   What if the Boundary Review commission had finished its work for this election, with a 600 seat House of Commons.  Would Tories have done a little better?

[rob in cal]

  Saw the breakdown by religion in one poll, can't remember which, that showed that Hindus were far more pro-Conservative than South Asian Moslems.  Are Hindus generally of a much higher income and social status than other South Asian background people?