UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Election Day & Results Thread)

[joevsimp]

any turnout informations so far?

this is the first time I've ever had to queue to vote, although five years ago I was on the dole and voted at about half ten in the morning, rather than half six after work

[joevsimp]

Jeremy Vine has his weird paving stone graphics again.

I'm watching Channel 4, I'd forgotten how funny Adam Hills is

[joevsimp]

Any chance this is wrong?

It's possible: they have been wrong before and sometimes massively. Of course (alas) they are sometimes also right. We have to wait.

The early seat calls up in North England suddenly have more meaning, don't they?  Nuneaton (sp) will be a good reality check.

look at how close Sunderland Central is in half an hour or so

[joevsimp]

So how long until results start coming in more frequently?

not many until 1am. hour and a half. time for a nap

[joevsimp]

no real surprises there, apart from the Isle of Wight (although it does have a fair few unemployed people who used to work in a wind turbine factory before it was closed down)

i feel we underperformed in London a bit but that was partly tactics as there were no local elcetions to try and coattail in cllrs

[joevsimp]

was there any more about that ukip candidate in Darlington who got left off some of the ballot papers

[joevsimp]

I haven't been able to find a good 2015 UK Election results map where you could click on a district and it would tell you who won, by how much and who the opponents were, etc. Wikipedia has more info like that than the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph websites combined.

yeah, the bbc were rubbish with that this year, they've had full flash animated maps at the last two