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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It's a real damning indictment of the current state of our political system when the only real alternative to the incumbent government celebrate quite a big loss.
Hopefully though this will give the government a good kick up the arse.
 
I think in the 2015 election if PR had been used, UKIP would have had something like 28 seats. I know this time they wouldn't but the benefits aren't always positive for PR.
Off the top of my head UKIP had 4m votes last time and 1 MP whereas the SNP had 2m and 50+, not that I'd want UKIP to have more MPs but that's just plain wrong.
Same as the ridiculous 'safe seats' we have, Diane Abbott (for instance) just got returned with a staggering majority so there's really no point in voting for anyone else in her constituency as your vote would be worthless.
 
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