UK Election - Results Thread

[Hash]

hahahahahahahahahaha. BNP THIRD IN BARKING!!!!!

Yeah, weird but good.

Wtf in Redcar? Seriously?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Why is London generally Conservative?

[bullmoose88]

Montgomeryshire swing had to be HUGE.

Twas.  13.2%

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No one mentioned how wrong the pollsters have been this time round? (regarding the liberals anyway)

[bullmoose88]

hahahahahahahahahaha. BNP THIRD IN BARKING!!!!!

Praise God.  Praise the good sense of the British people.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why is London generally Conservative?

Isn't the city mostly suburban? So lots of affluent suburbanites.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

No one mentioned how wrong the pollsters have been this time round? (regarding the liberals anyway)

Well there's still about two hours left and 250 seats to call.  Let's see what happens.

[Verily]

Why is London generally Conservative?

Depends which part. Lefty whites vote LD, wealthy whites vote Conservative, minorities vote Labour. The inner core of London is extremely wealthy, comparable to, say, the Upper East Side of NYC, which used to be very Republican before the Republicans became the party of evangelical Christianity.

[Barnes]

How's that Brighton Pavilion recount or whatever coming along?

[Meeker]

Labour: 3.9 million votes, 121 seats
Liberal Democrats: 3.1 million votes, 23 seats

Awesome

[bullmoose88]

Southampton Itchen is close.  Tory Target 199.  Might not win it.  But close.

[Torie]

The headline will be the LD implosion.

And that is yet another sad similarity between British reporting and American.  Sensationalizing the results to sell ad space.  Clearly the polling data has for about a week suggested the LD would gain, at most 20 seats.  And probably fewer, possibly not gaining any.  Despite many hopeful interviews broadcast here (and I assume in the UK as well), the more level-headed analysts have suggested that those who predict large LD gains are being overly optimistic (or pessimistic, depending on your ideology), especially given that their support was unfortunately distributed.  If the trend holds, then it would seem that those who said that the LD would make, at best, modest gains have called it correctly.  Breaking even is not an implosion.  As an American, you must recognize how difficult for a third party to gain seats by defeating the candidates of the larger, more entrenched parties.  The fact that they held about 60 of 650 seats coming in to this election, and will hold on to that number, roughly, in a time of severe economic insecurity and in spite of the fact that an overall party shift between the two dominant parties was in the making, is not an "implosion" in my opinion.  But don't let that stop newspaper editors from labeling it as such.

I used the word "implosion" based on expectations, rather than vis a vis the last election. I suspect the LD's are very depressed. They had hopes, and those hopes were dashed, which I suspect will truncate any demands they otherwise might have had to form a stable government. With these numbers they are no position to make any such demands.

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Tories gain Wyre forest.

[Lief 🗽]

Tories gain Wyre forest.

[Verily]

Dr. Taylor loses, sadly. Closer than I expected, though.

[Phony Moderate]

Tories gain Wyre forest.

Possibly the most disgusting result so far.

[Lief 🗽]

Labour: 3.9 million votes, 121 seats
Liberal Democrats: 3.1 million votes, 23 seats

Awesome

England Results:
LD 24.8%, 15 Seats
Lab 24.1%, 59 Seats

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Looks like the Lib Dems are frozen.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Vine explaining how its all inexplicable.

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Jeremy Vine admits that UNS is broken!?

[Lief 🗽]

Jeremy Vine admits that UNS is broken!?

You mean that elections don't result in completely uniform nationwide swings?! There are variations in voting patterns between constituencies?! No way!

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Labour holds Dumfries/Galloway

[Verily]

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

[Marokai Backbeat]

Labour: 3.9 million votes, 121 seats
Liberal Democrats: 3.1 million votes, 23 seats

Awesome

England Results:
LD 24.8%, 15 Seats
Lab 24.1%, 59 Seats

An absolute tragedy for any democratic system.

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Cons gain Hereford South from LDs.