Poll: Exit Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Results discussion and OcUK Exit Poll - Closing 8th July

Exit poll: Who did you vote for?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 302 27.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 577 52.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 104 9.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 13 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 19 1.7%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 30 2.7%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 4.2%
  • Total voters
    1,097
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Cern said:
Yes, today's first time voters will be 5 years older next time and their views and priorities may change. But there are always new first timer voters at every election, the key is reaching out to them.

How was this a missed opportunity for Labour? Everyone had them down on the canvas, out for the count, 20 points behind in the polls. facing total obliteration etc. Would anyone have predicted this result a month ago? If it wasn't for some bizarre results in Scotland and fair few Tories hanging onto their seats by very narrow margins (just hundreds of votes in many cases), things could have ended up even more different.

The Labour Party needs to unite behind Corbyn now and I suspect it will. I'll hold my hands up and admit I wasn't his greatest fan before the election campaign, but I think he ran a great campaign, a good mix of old school getting out there on the stump and harnessing social media.. Now if he'd only campaigned with similar passion for Remain ......
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It was a missed opportunity to win. They managed to get a good youth turn out which no one has done before. The conservatives clearly ran a bad campaign. Labour gave their best and conservatives their worst. If it was going to happen for labour it should have been this election.
 
We're pretty happy about the result. Pundits had Labour down for a wipe-out but Theresa self-imposed her own loss of majority by calling this snap election and now they have a very slim majority. A lot of humble pie being swallowed at CCHQ for sure.
 
Rroff said:
Pretty much the par for anything with inexperience - the young tend to think things stand on their own merit and don't see the value of the things propping them up/made it possible in the first place. (Until they learn the hard way).
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You could apply the same analogy to the wealthy. There are plenty of company owners and top end managers who are more than happy to see the state make up pitiful incomes.
 
Above&Beyond said:
Corbyn the IRA supporter putting the DUP in government is quite amusing.
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A) They're not in Govt and B) Not sure why it's Corbyn fault Theresa May only has that fringe group to cosy up to sInce every one else hates her...

Or are you saying there should have been no opposition to the Tories in the election?
 
delta0 said:
It was a missed opportunity to win. They managed to get a good youth turn out which no one has done before. The conservatives clearly ran a bad campaign. Labour gave their best and conservatives their worst. If it was going to happen for labour it should have been this election.
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Disagree. The next five years are going to destroy the Conservative party. May is demonstrably a weak leader, the party has no clear mandate and any Brexit deal is going to look like a bad deal to the majority of voters.

All of the momentum (small M :p) is with Labour.
 
Tunney said:
Disagree. The next five years are going to destroy the Conservative party. May is demonstrably a weak leader, the party has no clear mandate and any Brexit deal is going to look like a bad deal to the majority of voters.

All of the momentum (small M :p) is with Labour.
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there is going to be another election well before we get anywhere near that 5 year fixed term mark. May is hanging on for grim death and the deal with the DUP devil is going to finish the Tories.
 
delta0 said:
It was a missed opportunity to win.
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Who the hell would want to win this election with the Brexit disaster about to blow up in their face. Whoever is in power will get the blame, and be unelectable for years, like Labour being blamed for the Global fibancial crash in 2008
 
Incoming blaming the DUP for the next 5 years from the tories and The Sun / Daily mail.

Although after today and the huge negative press to corbyn I'm happy many people ignored it. They don't have as much clout as they thought. They may have swung it a little but its clear many people think what they print is pure bull ****
 
Tunney said:
Disagree. The next five years are going to destroy the Conservative party. May is demonstrably a weak leader, the party has no clear mandate and any Brexit deal is going to look like a bad deal to the majority of voters.

All of the momentum (small M :p) is with Labour.
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Conservatives won't be complacent with Corbyn next time. They went into this election complacent and took advantage of the core voters as a result. I highly doubt they will make that mistake next time. If the youth vote looks like it is going to be sustained then the conservatives and Lib Dems are going to refocus on that. That squeezes the only thing that gave labour the significant vote this time.
 
delta0 said:
It was a missed opportunity to win. They managed to get a good youth turn out which no one has done before. The conservatives clearly ran a bad campaign. Labour gave their best and conservatives their worst. If it was going to happen for labour it should have been this election.
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Their best campaign, really? Most of the PLP & mainstream media have spent the last 2 years trying to get rid of Corbyn, he's had 8 weeks where the media have been forced to let him speak & this is what happens. Imagine what the result would've been like with a loyal PLP & and an unbiased MSM. They would've had to build an extension in the House of Commons to fit all the extra labour MPs in.
 
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