UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

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Huh. Thought 'folks' for 'people' was an American archaicism, like 'fall' for 'autumn'.

Anyway, rooting for the worst Labour performance possible. None of the other choices seem particularly good, but Labour is the worst by far, and any seat they lose or suffer an adverse swing in will be an occasion for satisfaction.

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Watching UK elections is like watching a competition show. This country basically invented the modern way we do politics in the West, so every one of their elections is historic. (even if they're embarrassing themselves with brexit and boris nowadays)

Too bad David Dimbleby isn't around anymore to open the broadcast with "this is the most exciting election in years" for the 3937th consecutive time.

Given that British elections are typically spaced 4-5 years apart, and almost never less than 2 years, wouldn't this actually be true of the vast majority of elections?

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Hearing and reading that the weather is dreadful - hard cold wins plus constant rain - in the midlands.

Isn't the impact of bad weather on turnout grossly exaggerated?

Not only that, but there's no particular reason to think it helps any particular group; I can think of plenty of 'just so' stories of inclement weather hurting Labour or the Conservatives.

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If the SNP are really on 55, and the Lib Dems on 13, then Swinson has probably lost.

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So did the coal mining areas go tory too, I know two years ago I was mocked over this but lets see if those areas fell with the rest of the "red wall"

Depends on what you mean by "coal mining areas", but the Welsh Valleys are still Safe Labour even at these numbers considering their margins.

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Sky News just said that NI Nationalists will have more MPs than Ulster Unionists for the first time ever

Yep; not a very heartening prospect.

Additionally, Wales is now Liberal-free for the second election in a row (which is also the second election, period, where that's happened). They - and Labour - still at least have a presence in Scotland, which looked touch-and-go for a while tonight.

They are not even within single-digits anywhere in Wales, though Brecon and Radnorshire (which they'd won at a by-election earlier this year) remains a realistic-ish future prospect at just 53-36 against the Tories. Apart from that they're dead.