Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

[dl8860]

so, scotland voted "no" to leave UK, but was'nt that Alex Salmon? and Nicola Sturgon took over from him? now majority of Scotland are voting for SNP? i'm prolly just making an error here due to execess wine but going on the exit thing, Scotland wanna leave?

Bottled leaving at last minute, but want more power regardless. Independence inevitable soon I think

 

[Glaucus]

Well if they are looking at 140 seats. That's only one poling station per seat from which you extrapolate for the entire seat.

On average that is 157 votes per seat you are using to predict very marginal seats. I think the uncertainty is high at a seat by seat level.

Most of the certainty comes from aggregating back up to a national level.

I don't know how many they've gone to. You said 140.

 

[dbilsborough]

"hard to know how you do a leadership contest with only 9 other possible candidates"

 

[ic1male]

Admittedly it's only 17 out of 650 but LDs have not gained a single vote in any of them so far.

 

[muon]

I don't know how many they've gone to. Just the guy I quoted said 140.

Yeh, Curtis said 140 stations earlier.

 

[Amp34]

I think that's hugely unfair to the electorate TBH.

Why? If you can't seperate the campaign and alliances for a referendum on splitting a country with general election positions then there is a problem. The same can be said about the LDs.People complaining about the LD "renegading" on their promise of scrapping tuition fees seem to forget that the LDs didn't win the election, they didn't even come close...

 

[thenewoc]

Haha BBC actually showing a house of cards for the Lib Dems

Damn, missed it, hope they get some more mileage out of those graphics later.

 

[Zefan]

Admittedly it's only 17 out of 650 but LDs have not gained a single vote in any of them so far.

When you say vote, you mean seat right?

 

[Judgeneo]

Nuneaton result is very significant, there is a large labour presence there in neighbouring cities too.
First one that the exit poll was wrong on too, but its wrong in favour of the conservatives!!

When you say vote, you mean seat right?

I think he meant vote share

 

[Mr Jack]

It's looking like the entire Lib Dem coalition negotiating party is going to lose their seats; what are they going to do if they do need to negotiate?

After Nuneaton, it really does look like the exit poll is going to pan out. Britain, I am disappoint.

 

[Glaucus]

Oh dear, exit poll expected a swing to labour at Nuneaton and it actually swing to con.
I don't now what I want now, I wanted another con/LD coalition .

 

[Amp34]

That is a shame, the lib dens as a minority party in coalition managed to restrict Tory excesses and push through some good policies of their own the credit for which the Tories have managed to pinch!

To suggest they could have done more is simply the British electorate failing to understand coalition politics where one party has 300 seats and the other 50! I think long term history won't judge nick and the party as harshly as they do today as we get used to the politics of coalition. Hopefully the party can rebuild it's support over the next parliament and get back to where it was.

Well said.


Oh dear, a conservative majority?! Almost as bad as a labour majority!

 

[dl8860]

Nuneaton result actually further towards Tory than exit poll suggests. Standby for blue victory

 

[ic1male]

When you say vote, you mean seat right?

No, from what I can recall Emily's graphics have shown the LDs with -% across every declared constituency.

 

[Rosbif]

Tory silent vote rearing its head again?

 

[McBain]

Professor saying don't discount Conservatives majority

 

[jas72]

Why? If you can't seperate the campaign and alliances for a referendum on splitting a country with general election positions then there is a problem. The same can be said about the LDs.People complaining about the LD "renegading" on their promise of scrapping tuition fees seem to forget that the LDs didn't win the election, they didn't even come close...

Yes but this was for many a vote winner a reason to vote for them they didn't HAVE to form a coalition

 

[tbh]

so, scotland voted "no" to leave UK, but was'nt that Alex Salmon? and Nicola Sturgon took over from him? now majority of Scotland are voting for SNP? i'm prolly just making an error here due to execess wine but going on the exit poll thing, Scotland wanna leave?

All the folks (around 45% of the population) who voted Yes in the referendum have switched from Labour to SNP, whilst the remaining 55% of votes are split between Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, UKIP, Greens... not hard to see why the SNP are making huge gains really.

 

[rubberduck]

England unites against SNP. Good stuff!

 

[Mr Jack]

Do you even politics bro?