UK Election - Results Thread

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

This will probably be a election that will leave all the three major parties very disappionted.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

It is very slow tonight - normally almost all the northern Labour seats have declared by now.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

This will probably be a election that will leave all the three major parties very disappionted.

Not Labour.

[Edu]

Why is this taking so long?  The Canadians, who use first-past-the-post, usually have their results in within a few hours.

Yeah, from what i saw from the 1979, 1983 and 1987 election coverage, the results were like halfway trough or more by this time.

[angus]

Clegg is not happy tonight.

But probably not suprrised.  The predictions from PBS and BBC were like 300ish Conservative, 250ish Labour, and fewer than 100 seats for the Liberal Democrat Party.  And that's how it seems to be turning.  The Conservative Party seems on track for just about 300, and the other parties seem to be on track, respectively, for somewhere between 250 and 270 and somewhere between 60 to 80.  That said, it is an intriguing election for all junkies because of the particular likely outcome. 

I'm struck by the way--and I'm watching BBC on a computer, streaming, via guardian.co.uk, so I'm not exactly sure whether it's temporally in sync with the reporting in the UK, but it is at least the same coverage, however delayed--I'm struck by the similarity of UK reporting of UK elections to the US reporting of US elections.  Mostly gas-bag filler with "strategists" and ideologues, with the occassional cutaway to a vaguely-worded speech from a winner in a safe district that everyone knew he (or she) would win.  I suppose some things are the same everywhere.

Well, except maybe the bit with will.i.am. 

[2952-0-0]

Damn, I missed all the fun because of the damn evening class!

[You kip if you want to...]

Why is this taking so long?  The Canadians, who use first-past-the-post, usually have their results in within a few hours.

Yeah, from what i saw from the 1979, 1983 and 1987 election coverage, the results were like halfway trough or more by this time.

There's local elections this time round as well though.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Every time Cons catch up, Labour gets 2 more seats.

[Lief 🗽]

Defeated candidate Lembit Opik tweets: "It's a very sad day for democracy if being characterful means you can't be in parliament."

[nhmagic]

This is my first time watching a British election.  The punditry is interesting.  I keep waiting for a result, but they just aren't coming.  Why is it that our congressional seats seem to come in faster?  It's a smaller country.  They need to have some jingle everytime someone wins a seat and have some people doing some drama.  Also, people aren't doing power speeches like ours do and they don't have entrances with music.  Also, what's with the "state fair winner of best looking swine" lineup?  Why does the winner have to hang around with all of the losers?

[You kip if you want to...]

Labour hold Oxford East... lol, LibDems.

[2952-0-0]

This is Britain. Things are much more understated.

[Lief 🗽]

LibDems lose another seat. Jesus, this is depressing.

[cinyc]

Tories ahead 100-98

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Lib Dems running at -2, hopefully they can even break 80.

Some polls show them losing 3 seats.

[ag]

Which seat do LD lose? Because all it shows on declarations is a hold

[nhmagic]

This is so American of me, but there's a city called "Tooting"?  LOL

[Хahar 🤔]

This is my first time watching a British election.  The punditry is interesting.  I keep waiting for a result, but they just aren't coming.  Why is it that our congressional seats seem to come in faster?  It's a smaller country.  They need to have some jingle everytime someone wins a seat and have some people doing some drama.  Also, people aren't doing power speeches like ours do and they don't have entrances with music.  Also, what's with the "state fair winner of best looking swine" lineup?  Why does the winner have to hang around with all of the losers?

So you want to take away everything that makes their elections good?

Which seat do LD lose? Because all it shows on declarations is a hold

Montgomeryshire: Öpik's seat.

[You kip if you want to...]

Cons hold/gain Crewe after by-election.

[Verily]

The ironic commentary on the hedges has me practically in tears.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Libdems lose another one

[Хahar 🤔]

Tories' fortunes seem to be picking up.

[ag]

This is my first time watching a British election.  The punditry is interesting.  I keep waiting for a result, but they just aren't coming.  Why is it that our congressional seats seem to come in faster?  It's a smaller country.  They need to have some jingle everytime someone wins a seat and have some people doing some drama.  Also, people aren't doing power speeches like ours do and they don't have entrances with music.  Also, what's with the "state fair winner of best looking swine" lineup?  Why does the winner have to hang around with all of the losers?

So you want to take away everything that makes their elections good?

Which seat do LD lose? Because all it shows on declarations is a hold

Montgomeryshire: Öpik's seat.

That and one more we've known for ages - but there was also a gain. Which is the third loss?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Which seat do LD lose? Because all it shows on declarations is a hold

Newton-Abbot and Montgomeryshire.

[bullmoose88]

SW: 1.0% swing from LD to Con
SE:  1.0% swing from LD to Con
East/Anglia: 0.6% swing from LD to Con.

Meanwhile theres a 7.3% from Lab to Con in the East Midlands,  7.8% in the Northeast.