UK Election - Results Thread

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Internet access is a little dodgy at the moment, so I'm setting this up now - in case I can't later. I'm as morbidly pessimistic as normal for polling day, obviously.

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What are the projected popular vote figures?

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So, yeah. Watched the election on the telly. Bad result, but not as bad as I'd been dreading/expecting. My internet seems to be back now. For now... welll... I'm very happy that Albert Owen held on.

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Ynsy Mon, Lab hold. (I'm shocked)

No incumbent MP has been defeated on The Island since the early 1950s despite it being no party's stronghold. There's a strong element of fluke to that record, but it ain't all fluke... The Island is its own little world and doesn't always follow the crowd. I think this is Owen's largest majority to date, lol.

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And they cut away from Durham for Brown's seat...

Lab Hold.

Epic fail, LibDems. Epic fail.

Pit villages outvoted the City again, by the look of it. Excellent.

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Swing in Telford: 6.3% from Labour to Conservatives.

Wright did bloody well given what has happening over the Midlands outside the main industrial areas. He's now only non-Tory West Midlands MP from outside Greater Birmingham/Black Country, Potteries or Coventry.

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Lab hold Gedling

Coaker has a massive personal vote. Excellent constituency MP.

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What happened in Blaenau Gwent?

Read the hints in all recent posts of mine on the subject

I wonder if Trish'll retire now...

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The exclusion of Bangor from the district makes Aberconwy fall to the Tories.

Yes. Bethesda as well. But including them was enough to give my new (and generally worthless) MP more of a race than he was expecting, so, meh.

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WOAH! Montgomeryshire. I've just had to check if that was right or not.

Now, this is big!

I've been predicting this for a few years. Arrogant fool got what was coming to him.

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Hague has a really annoying voice.

That's because he's a sort of Yorkshire Dalek.

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Lembit Opik seems like a decent, honest dude.

He's none of those things. Which is why he lost.

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Recount in Birmingham Edgbaston, which really should have been an easy Conservative gain. We'll see.

Well, why vote Tory when you can have Gisela?

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Wow, massive 17-point swing Lab -> LD in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, which is usually an ultra-safe Labour seat in the Welsh valleys. Labour still holds by 10 points or so, but I wonder what caused that.

Local government strength, more or less. A recent development.

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LD fail to take Rochdale. And the swing to Labour: both loose, the Con fail to vote strategically in this case, though.

The home of that bigoted woman.

lol, quite.

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Redcar has to be a huge swing, more than 15%. The LDs had been talking it up, but really...

According to the BBC website, the swing was 21.8% to the LibDems there.

Wasn't there some big factory (can't remember the name atm) closed down a few month ago? Could that be it?

The Corus steelworks, yeah. A lot of employees live outside the constituency, but it didn't look good. But - just as important - a strong LibDem base in local government. They'd also done very, very, very well in local by-elections there.

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Substantial swing to Labour in Dumfries and Galloway. Conservatives will have only one seat in Scotland.

Dumfries itself votes like somewhere near Coatbridge, and Brown is (another) excellent constituency MP.

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Labour take Chesterfield. 2nd lab gain

I'd expected this, actually. Labour were only narrowly behind in the county council elections last year; an absolute trainwreck in most places, and Holmes was hurt by the expenses scandal. It's also - you know - 'naturally' Labour.

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Charles Clark defeated.

I am so very sad. I cry REAL TEARS! It's such a shame.

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It seems that Phil Woolas is unsinkable. I think this is the fourth election in a row that he was supposed to lose...

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Con Gains Cardiff North.

Teeny-tiny swing, though, in a seat they never had any business losing.

Popular incumbent. Shame she lost, but it was expected.

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Bah. Teather. Urgh. Urgh.

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but bag the old Enoch Powell Wolverhampton seat from Labor in a big upset.

Not an upset. Absolutely not an upset.

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I'm sad that no one mentioned the Newcastle results. I was looking for an excuse to write 'the Fog on the Tyne is mine all mine, the Fog on the Tyne is all mine...' but, alas.

I'm hoping in the coming days someone can provide a logical explanation for the schizophrenic LibDem swings.

This explains everything.

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NUM President (and future media hate figure) Ian Lavery has been comfortably elected in Wansbeck.