Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

Who did you vote for?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 518 39.5%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 65 5.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 241 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 99 7.5%

  • Didn't vote / spoiled ballot

    Votes: 136 10.4%

  • Other party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • SNP

    Votes: 67 5.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 158 12.0%
  • Total voters
    1,313
Kenai said:
Yes but either way, to be blunt they're not 'Total BS', what they're telling us isn't going to dramatically change the situation - Labour will struggle to form a majority either way unless the exit poll is massively wrong and I just don't see it, Conservatives may well have a few options to form government.
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Just read this:

Just putting this here

The first indication of who�s won Britain�s general election will be an exit poll commissioned by news broadcasters. According to one of the academics putting it together, it�s likely to be imprecise and may well be wrong.
The findings of the country�s only exit poll will be released by the BBC, ITV and Sky News at 10 p.m. on the night of May 7, just as polls close across the U.K.
After successfully calling the election results of 2005 and 2010, the team who generate the poll face a much tougher challenge this time, as traditional voting patterns fracture amid the rise of insurgent groups such as the Scottish Nationalists and the U.K. Independence Party. The pollsters are preparing to hedge their bets.
�Don�t be surprised if the headline is very circumspect, which basically means: �Who knows?�� John Curtice, the professor of politics at Strathclyde University who will be analyzing the numbers for the BBC, said in an interview. �Unless the polls are wrong, this is the closest election in 40 years.�
The exit poll, which predicts seat numbers in Parliament rather than vote share, is conducted by interviewing voters at each of 140 carefully selected polling stations -- a total of 20,000 people across Britain -- and measuring the change in voting behavior since the last election.
Never Before
One difficulty the statisticians face is that much of the expected change in voting patterns in this election is happening in places where they haven�t conducted surveys before. Previously, data from a handful of swing seats -- marginals as they�re known in Britain -- could be extrapolated to produce a nationwide picture.
�Once upon a time, you could concentrate on Conservative-Labour marginals, throw in a few Lib Dem seats and basically get it right,� Curtice said. �Until now you could ignore Scotland. You can�t ignore it any more.�
Whereas previous exit polls have only offered predictions for the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, this year�s will also attempt to say how many seats the Scottish National Party and UKIP will pick up.
Polling stations in Scotland and UKIP target seats -- such as in eastern England -- have been added to the sample to assist in this. Ten more constituencies are being covered than in 2010.
But with UKIP especially, the team is effectively being asked to predict the result of specific local races, something its sample isn�t large enough for.
�Prepare for disappointment,� said Curtice. �It�s almost guaranteed.�
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Going to be interesting either way.
 
wunkley said:
Edward miliband = pathetic ****. And that's the c word by the way. End of story. You're not supposed to vote on a 'figurehead' in uk politics, but of course you do! Could you really see this specific human being running a country?
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Better the stuffed puppet known as David Cameron.
 
PermaBanned said:
You don't promote growth through austerity
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Austerity isn't just about promoting growth though, it's about developing a sustainable economy that isn't just growing artificially by borrowing more and more money.

Growth can come later, once the need to borrow billions on top of billions just to pay the bills has been resolved.
 
PermaBanned said:
None of the parties understand economics, but pretty much everyone understands it better than the Conservatives. You don't promote growth through austerity, that's madness, and if the exit polls reflect reality the economy will see another five years of stagnation as real wages and quality of life continue to suffer.
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But at the end of the day, the people deserve what they get. If they vote for austerity, they can't complain when they get it.

Everybody knew precisely what the options were.

I hope part of the plan is scrapping HS2. What a bloody huge waste of money that is going to be.
 
anticonscience said:
Just read this:



Going to be interesting either way.
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UKIP wise I don't think the exit poll is going to be very accurate though I'm probably wrong - I think a lot of people won't admit to voting for them anyway.

They are likely to see a big swing today IMO either a lot more people voting for them than expected or a lot less than expected.
 
FoxEye said:
But at the end of the day, the people deserve what they get. If they vote for austerity, they can't complain when they get it.

Everybody knew precisely what the options were.

I hope part of the plan is scrapping HS2. What a bloody huge waste of money that is going to be.
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HS2 is destined to be the biggest waste of public money with it's ever increasing costs. Considering it only benefits the wealthy Londoners it's pointless.
 
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