UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

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I don't really think Labour deserved to do any better than this--I've been probably the maroon avatar most critical of them on the antisemitism issue--but this is obviously a terrible result for British working people, and seeing the most personally loathsome individual on the forum gloating about this is enough to make me hurl. I'm going out to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe. I might be back for a hot-take postmortem later.

It's arguably a good result in the long term. Corbynism is dead if this exit poll is reflected in the actual result.

My one word reaction was "Woah!", which I think will be a widespread one.

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John McDonnell is sounding very weary.

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Are there popular vote shares for the exit poll or is it just seat projections?

Don't think so, but Electoral Calculus thinks it is 41-27.

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Skynews say CON 46% LAB 32%

If so, that's the best Tory vote share since 1959.

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Tories will definitely govern for longer than they did under Thatcher and Major.

Yeah, well, that's, just, like, your opinion, man.

Welcome to the forum.

Tbh, the Conservatives would still be vulnerable in 2024, it is more that Corbyn has lost than Boris has won. They also campaigned on promises like an end to austerity and getting Brexit done that they are either unable or unwilling to achieve. Still, starting so far behind and such a grim result in Scotland makes it look very hard for Labour to win an outright majority in 2024, hung parliament then certainly possible. 5 grim years beforehand though, and this election should have been a Labour win, so it is really a tragic result.

Labour would have to gain 130 seats to get even near to be a government; Blair did 145 in 1997, so it is not outside the realm of possibility. But Labour needs to pick the right leader.

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Labour sources are seriously concerned about Blaneau Gwent. Al might have something to say about that.

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Where are people seeing seat-by-seat exit poll projections?

BBC website.

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John Bercow is on fine form in Sky News.

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Possibly. More likely it's Labour voters being so put off by Corbyn they are voting Conservative.  The working class Labour voter can be pretty right wing on some issues such as crime and foreign policy.

Also, be interesting to see what happens in Dagenham and Rainham; the rather young Tory leader of Havering Council is up against Labour Leaver Jon Cruddas. That could be close.

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Labour hold Newcastle Central.

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Blyth picked up by Tories.

Not exactly with a big majority, but still that's a big loss for Labour.

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Ian Levy, the new Tory MP for Blyth Valley, is apparently an NHS worker specialising in mental health. Take that one on board.

if there is going to be a Red Wedding in the North, then you might get some very interesting new MPs in the Commons who never expected to be there.

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Labour dropped over 7,000 votes in Blyth Valley; the Tories only went up around 16,000. Overall turnout was down there.

Suggests a lot of people simply didn't vote there. Big turnouts reported elsewhere don't seem to have happened there.

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Skinner looks like losing Bolsover. He would have been Father of the House had he won.

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Do elections before universal suffrage count in these discussions?

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Recount in Wansbeck and reports that Redcar has gone Tory.

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Labour source is saying they have lost Redcar. That was projected to stay Labour in the exit poll.

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Labour had held that seat continuously with one exception since 1918.

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CON gain Darlington!

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Yep. After the fourth Tory victory in a row in 1992 came 1997.

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1964 then. Tories went from a landslide in 1959 to a narrow loss to Labour.

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Con GAIN Peterborough - Lisa Forbes won the seat for Labour after the recall election in June... and is now unemployed.

I've had longer temp jobs.

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Lab gain Putney!

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BBC is saying that the leader of the DUP could lose to Sinn Féin.

Confirmed. Nigel Dodds is gone.

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Conservative majority of 64 now projected.