The Results Thread

[minionofmidas]

Dumfresshire, Clydesdale and Tweedale expected to go Lib Dem

Not quite. (Working through this thread now.)

[minionofmidas]

Lab hold NUT Central
Lab hold Larnark and Hamilton East

Bob Marshall Andrews says he's going to lose Medway

He held it, though.

[minionofmidas]

Straw's held Blackburn

On a mere 42% of the vote, 6 points less than in 1992. The seat's still safe, as the LD's, not the Cons gained - and the two are now virtually tied at about 22%.

[minionofmidas]

more than 200.


none of FNC, CNN, or MSNBC are playing this.  interesting?  guess not.

long names in welsh.  hey pat, can I buy a vowel?

Secret to that is that, in Welsh, w is a vowel.

[minionofmidas]

Labour have somehow held Hove. I'm shocked.

Yeah, I turned off the radio after that. FYI, I was listening to "Talksport - the UK's largest private radio station", where every 15 minutes there'd be an advert for joining an "adult" chat. Sort of funny that.
It was the first British radio program I found on midwave...the display of my radio is broken, has been for years. You sorta have to grope around in the dark when you try to find a different program.

[minionofmidas]

Law (Ind Lab) has won a majority of over 10,000 in BG

What was the issue there?

The issue was who should the new candidate be. He'll rejoin Labour as soon as they let him, no doubts about it.

[minionofmidas]

Tories have gained Wimbledon

Blair's majority went up, btw

Technically yes.
His share of the vote was down 6 points. The Tory's share of the vote was down 6.5 points, due to an independent (dad of dead soldier) splitting the opposition.

[minionofmidas]

What are the demographics there, Al?

Racially polarised textile area. Very socially conservative.

Yet the name of their rep is Shahid Malik.

Which is why the BNP did well.

[minionofmidas]

First Torie representation in Scotland and Wales since 1997.

Wales yes. Scotland no. They won a seat there in 2001 which was redistricted out from underneath their feet at this election. Ignore this.

[minionofmidas]

Lab hold Erewash. Kilroy-Silk loses his deposit! Hahahaha!

I htink he got 5.8%?

[minionofmidas]

Tether kept Brent East and Howard is re-elected

Brent East was listed as Labour.

That's because Labour won it in 2001. Lost it in a by-election.

[minionofmidas]

I love the BBC guy attacking Galloway. "Are you proud of knocking out one of the few black women in parliament?"

That was great!  Galloway just told him to f**ck off and walked away...

Well, he has been asked the exact same question at least four times a day for the past month...

[minionofmidas]

The 15 remaining British seats:
Argyle & Bute: One of three unchanged Scottish seats, was a close 4-way race in 2001: held by LibDems, likely to hold.

Actually, it was changed quite a good deal.

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[minionofmidas]

Sorry, IKHH means nothing to me. ?

I don't think it's really a party...it's basically an independent who ran advocating hospital reform I think.

Independent Kidderminster Health & Hospital Concern, if memory serves. It is a party actually, not just an independent. Only in Kidderminster council elections though - in Westminster elections it's an Independent.

[minionofmidas]

I have a question. Why do your polls close so late? It seems to be such an inconvenience, especially considering how long it takes results to come in.

Given that people have to work on polling days, anything but would be a worse inconvenience.

[minionofmidas]

Somethings that no one else has pointed out:

1. Labour held Dorset South!

Yeah, I noticed that too.
2. This is the first election since 1918 where Gravesham hasn't backed either the winner of the PV or the overall election.

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LOL.
Btw, the Putney winner sounded really proud, on the radio, to be the first opposition MP for the area in more than thirty years.

[minionofmidas]

Well, he has been asked the exact same question at least four times a day for the past month...

True. And not once has he given the honest answer. Things they should have asked him: Why not run against Timms in East Ham? Wouldn't it make more sense to run against this fairly senior minister with a good shot at entering the cabinet when Brown takes over? He voted for the war too. Oh and Respect did better there in the Euro's than in Bethnal Green & Bow.

He might have wanted to have a shot at winning.
Of course ministers voted for the war, they'd have had to resign otherwise.
And the BG&B electorate has shown itself in the past to be much more volatile, and not to like its MP all that much...(for reasons that are at least indirectly related to her religion - the area's former settlement patterns are important in this as well - and also to her dad's race...although I don't buy it that that's the whole story) I'd guess that would be the reasons.

[minionofmidas]

Berwick-upon-Tweed and Hexham for the LibDems and Tories as expected.

Beat me to it.

[minionofmidas]

No-one's mentioned Tim Collins losing by 200 votes in Westmoreland and Lonsdale.

Biggest LD scalp of the night, the Shadow Education Secretary.

I did. In the other thread. I also bragged about predicting it.

[minionofmidas]

Argyll & Bute, Skipton & Ripon in. Both holds (LD maj in Argyll up, Con maj in N Yorks down)

[minionofmidas]

Was it her own vote? Or wasn't it? She was standing in all four Cardiff seats after all.

[minionofmidas]

Howard is only staying on as leader of the party until they change the way they elect the leader.

Non news. There was an article in the Indy a few days ago saying that. And they didn't present it as a speculation, either.

[minionofmidas]

My friends at the Crawley count have told me that Labour have held on by approx 30 votes they think.

So when's this going to be presented? And when will the NI results start pouring in?

[minionofmidas]

Labour hold both Crawley and Wirral West

[minionofmidas]

...Wirral West by over a 1000 votes, so I'd like to know why this took so long. Crawley by 37 votes. Pete's sources were pretty good.