UK General Election, 2017 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Polkergeist]

This is CNNs breakdown (I don't know if everybody would agree with how they broke down England into regions)

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Based on these regional figures here are the Con-Lab swings

South West: 3.3% swing to Labour

South East: 3.7% swing to Labour

London: 6.3% swing to Labour

Eastern: 2.6% swing to Labour

East Midlands: 0.8% swing to Labour

West Midlands: 1.2% swing to Labour

North West: 2.7% swing to Labour

Yorkshire & H: 1% swing to Labour

North East: 0.4% swing to Conservative

Wales: 2.9% swing to Labour

Scotland: 5.5% swing to Conservative*

*Scotland (CON -SNP swing)  13.4% swing to Conservative

[Polkergeist]

There are big variations within that though - the big cities have swung to Labour a lot (Birmingham Edgbaston is a perfect example of this - a Labour marginal in Birmingham with a retiring incumbent that most people thought would go Tory, but actually they got the biggest majority they ever have there) while outside that the swing was lower or towards the Tories.

Very true

[Polkergeist]

It is still hard for me to pinpoint why Scotland had a conservative surge if they were so opposed to brexit...tides turning in favor of brexit?

It seems to me that pro-brexit voters in Scotland flocked to the Conservatives. The Conservatives did have a low base to begin with in Scotland, they only polled 14.9% in 2015.