UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Simfan34]

I am getting really excited.  I am pretty much going to stay up all night just to watch LAB fall below 200 seats.

The bitter part of 2015 was seeing the Tories eek out a majority while the SNP swept Scotland. I worry tonight will be just like that, while on the other hand I relish the victory of the 2019 Tories far less than I did the 2015 Tories.

[Oryxslayer]

Blyth Valley is beating sunderland because supposedly the sunderlands are close, so the counts taking longer.

[MillennialModerate]

LOL.


Just as I thought. Literally the most spot on call I’ve had in a while.

Bittersweet, don’t like Corbyn but don’t like to see Labour go down like this.

2024, American & UK election in same year?

[Clyde1998]

BBC Scotland: "The Exit Poll suggests the Lib Dems will lose all four of their seats in Scotland, including Orkney and Shetland, where they recently won a by-election. Labour will have one seat in Scotland and the Conservatives will have three."

Orkney and Shetland has been Liberal/Whig since 1826, with the exception of brief Conservative spells between 1835-37 and 1935-50.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Maybe Corbyn/LAB should have backed May's deal in retrospect.

This

But if Corbyn's done, i will probably support the Tories as well... I mean Brexit is Brexit and maybe it should get done finally, but with a center-left leader i'm not enthusiastic anymore about Britain's future, and would swing to the Tories.

[MillennialModerate]

LOL.

Just as I thought. Literally the most spot on call I’ve had in a while.

Bittersweet, don’t like Corbyn but don’t like to see Labour go down like this.

2024, American & UK election in same year?

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

BBC Scotland: "The Exit Poll suggests the Lib Dems will lose all four of their seats in Scotland, including Orkney and Shetland, where they recently won a by-election. Labour will have one seat in Scotland and the Conservatives will have three."

Orkney and Shetland has been Liberal/Whig since 1826, with the exception of brief Conservative spells between 1835-37 and 1935-50.

Jesus

[LAKISYLVANIA]

It's Labour's lack of a clear answer on immigration that caused this. Social democracy as it is now, is just dying.

[Silent Hunter]

Labour sources are seriously concerned about Blaneau Gwent. Al might have something to say about that.

[jeron]

Goodbye, United Kingdom of four countries.

Probably not. There isn't gonna be an Indyref 2 if the SNP isn't in government.

Oh, but it is. In Edinburgh.

And Boris will tell them to F off when Sturegon asks for Indyref2. He knows the data. So Sturgeon will likely do something rash and then... well...

More likely a Catalonia situation develops rather than a new nation.

Probably, but that doesn’t mean there wont be a referendum. The union will be a shambles.

[UncleSam]

Why wouldn’t they be able to get a second referendum? It seems clear that Scotland wants out.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Where are people seeing seat-by-seat exit poll projections?

[Beezer]

Why do people automatically assume the Scottish will choose the EU over Britain? The economic and personal links between Scotland and the rest of the UK are far stronger than the ties between Scotland and the EU. Surely the Scottish have no interest in erecting a hard border with their southern neighbors.

[Beezer]

Why wouldn’t they be able to get a second referendum? It seems clear that Scotland wants out.

It is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Scottish_independence#Post-referendum_polling

[OSR stands with Israel]

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"

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Why wouldn’t they be able to get a second referendum? It seems clear that Scotland wants out.

Because the rest of the UK doesn't want to let them out. And it isn't clear, just like it isn't clear the rest of the UK wants Brexit. The only thing that is clear is that FPTP doesn't work.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Why do people automatically assume the Scottish will choose the EU over Britain? The economic and personal links between Scotland and the rest of the UK are far stronger than the ties between Scotland and the EU. Surely the Scottish have no interest in erect a hard border with their southern neighbors.

In a Britain run by Boris Brexiteers? No, they would vastly prefer the EU over that.  

[politicallefty]

Wow. I didn't get a prediction in, but I would've said predicted something like Cons with 340 and maybe 8% win the popular vote. Ugh though if the exit polls are true. A total disaster.

The irony is that it probably would've been better if May had got this majority in 2017. I know you can't think that way, but still. They Tories could've eaten themselves alive and Labour might have been able to move from Corbyn back then.

[jaichind]

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50424263

Seat by seat for the exit poll

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Brexit has to get done

No excuses

UK has to live with consequences


The leftwing uncontrolled immigration doesn't work

This!

[Silent Hunter]

Where are people seeing seat-by-seat exit poll projections?

BBC website.

[Gracile]

Swinson may lose her seat?

[jeron]

BBC Scotland: "The Exit Poll suggests the Lib Dems will lose all four of their seats in Scotland, including Orkney and Shetland, where they recently won a by-election. Labour will have one seat in Scotland and the Conservatives will have three."

Orkney and Shetland has been Liberal/Whig since 1826, with the exception of brief Conservative spells between 1835-37 and 1935-50.

It seems unlikely given the fact that the Lib dems recently won a majority in a by-election for the Scottish parliament there.

[The Free North]

Nigel Farage is a massive massive troll.

[Cinemark]

British election reporting is so candid: "You lost and your party has no purpose, what are you going to do?"