The Official UK Election Thread! 6th May it is!

[Fiona]

Tooting

lib dem 7509
con 19514
ind 190
lab 22038
ukip 624
christian 171
green 609

Commentator saying that this was one on the edge of what the tories needed for an overall majority

Tories held guildford: top lib dem target

 

[geni]

UKIP not having a good night.

 

[Fiona]

Lab held dundee west: snp target

 

[MarkCorrigan]

This is really weird.

I have no idea what's going to happen.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Well, I see Jimmy Hood held Hamilton East- no surprise there.
My unbroken 36 year record of never having voted for an elected MP continues.

 

[Fiona]

so far labour down 8% in england
In Scotland labour up 8% and in wales 5%.

 

[Matthew Best]

Why are Labour so popular in Scotland, when you have the SNP to vote for? (I have to say if a party with the SNP's platform - minus the Scottishness - stood in Islington, I might well have been tempted to vote for them.)

 

[Fiona]

Bah, I need to go to bed. I will get up to a result I suppose ....

 

[Matthew Best]

I'm staying up all night.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Glasgow East goes to Labour.

The SNP will NOT be pleased.

 

[Raconteur]

Ouch, where's Rolfe...

 

[Agatha]

Lib Dem vote seems to have collapsed in their target seats.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Scotland is a very conservative country. (Note small "c"). Many people here would vote for a brick if it was painted red.
I've never understood it and I've lived here all my life.


Total so faar- 89 in Labour 45 Con 29 Lib Dem 5. Lab-6, Con +6.

 

[geni]

Glasgow East goes to Labour.

The SNP will NOT be pleased.

Eh they won that in a by-election with a massive swing. Doesn't mean much.

 

[geni]

Lib Dem vote seems to have collapsed in their target seats.

Eh for the most part it appears to have done very little at all. Cleg surge appears not to exist.

Going by the results the SNP and PC are getting it looks as if when push came to shove people went along tory labour lines.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

We lost Lemsip!

Oh dear.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Is everyone in bed?

 

[Giggywig]

I'm still watching on CSPAN. I find the way results are announced ever so charming, with the candidates all lined up with their big ribbons. Makes me think of cattle in a county fair.

 

[geni]

Is everyone in bed?

We are not going to get a result untill 6-7 and the politicians are being too controled. Not the best election night in history.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

We are not going to get a result untill 6-7 and the politicians are being too controled. Not the best election night in history.

I don't know, we've had some really weird results.