UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

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Though frankly, the fact that the Tories only gained 5.4% from 2017 indicates that people really ought to have prepared for such an actuality.  That is, the Tories went into this election sitting on a *lot* of elevated losing results...

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And remember re Blyth Valley as a barometer: it was an open seat.

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Barnsley E: Labour plummeted 22 points: 37.6 vs Brexit 29.2 (!), two points ahead of Tories.

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And Barnsley *Central* is 40-30 Lab-Brexit.

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In the name of making the rudest post in this thread, both Penistone and Sc*nthorpe flipped Lab-to-Tory.

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County Durham (2005-2019)

That's the administrative county from the mid 70s to mid 90s, rather than the historical county (the only one people identify with lol) or the present administrative boundaries, both of which 'voted' Labour. But still utterly pathetic and beyond embarrassing.

I mean, who would have thought that the combined Tory and Brexit vote would outpoll Labour in *Easington*, of all places (by 163 votes!)

Incidentally, getting away from Durham, I'm wondering why the Barnsley seats are the only ones where Brexit became a second-place marginal force, ahead of the Tories.

(And *Hull East* becoming supermarginal...wow.)

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I think of BG as more of a luck-of-the-draw bottom-feeding Brexit 2nd--particularly as the margin's 3 times the size of the Barnsleys...

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As for the Lib Dems, where I do agree with you is that there is a huge opportunity for the Lib Dems in posh commuterville (where I live) but it is not by allying themselves to Labour, if anything they should be distancing themselves further. If this is the route they want to go down they should re-brand as the 'sensible, pragmatic' party with a solemn duty for putting the breaks on the 'extremism' of the Conservatives and Labour; whilst at the same time pushing the 'party of business' narrative (especially responsible business) and tie this into an internationalist world view. They should be very pro-environment/sustainability though leaving the more extreme sounding anti-growth stuff to the Greens. On social issues be liberal and pro-freedom (obviously) though they should avoid getting dragged into the latest 'woke' obsession e.g. announcing pronouns or self I.D which raises more than a few eyebrows round these parts. This is basically how they'd take the Home Counties from the Tories and establish a very solid base here, though I somewhat doubt they'll go down this route.

Sort of a UK version of the "Macron coalition" in France.