Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[ed boy]

Battersea goes from tory to lab, the second major swing.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

We may be looking at a mounting disaster for SNP. One of their safest seats, Angus (+25%), has flipped to Tory.

[smjjames]

SNP is actually losing seats to both Tories and Labor, so, yeah, they're taking quite a hit.

Conservatives also lost another minister (though a junior one).

[hector13]

SNP are certainly unlikely to be able to hold everything. I think the last election (in which there were record-breaking swings across the board) was something of an outlier, and this is things returning mostly to normal.

It is terrifying

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Laor's second most vulnerable seat, Ealing Central & Acton (+0.54%), has held. Get hype for Comrade Corbyn.

Two more SNP seats have both flipped Tory. inb4 the Conservative hold is caused by Scotland, of all places.

[smjjames]

Update to BBC forecast:

[hector13]

Two more SNP seats have both flipped Tory. inb4 the Conservative hold is caused by Scotland, of all places.

Don't even fucking suggest such lunacy

Right, North East and coastal. Unsurprising they voted Tory. Probably. Oil and fish.

[Starver]

Some areas come in faster than others, only explaination that I have. Seems like the results are starting to come in faster as more of them complete the counts.

Compact constituencies (inner cities, etc) have an advantage of distances that ballot boxes are retrieved from as well as maybe a higher concentration of willing workers to work the counts.  They'd be generally urban working-class votes, however those end up expressed by party affiliation.

Large (by area, similar by population) rural county/part-county seats have logistical hurdles, but may be a little more right-wing (the rural working class may not have quite the same policy concerns) when they finally reveal themselves.

The various Highlands And Islands areas may even have weather and/or tide effects upon some tendrils of the vote collation process, more than almost any other British constituency could be subject to.

But it's not anywhere near as simple as that.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

High Peak (+9) flips Tory to Laor.

SNP loses yet another seat to the Tories, and one to LibDem. SNP has now lost seven seats in total.

First Laor flip to Tories, in Walsal North (+5).

[Starver]

Nice to see Mairi Black retained her (SNP) seat. Just for who she is and her petsonal politics/etc, without going into the consideration of party.

[RedKing]

Looks like the big loser in all this is SNP rather than the Conservatives.

Oh, and UKIP, but then they were losers to begin with.

[ed boy]

Clegg has fallen.

This is one hell of a night.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Given that the Conservatives called this election to solidify their majority, any result outside of a massive gain is a loss and devastating to their optics. If tonight ends with less than 325 Conservative seats it's a disaster for them, even though they'll still be the largest singular party.

Speaking of the embarrassing failures of the Tories, Twickenham (+3.25) flips from Tory to LibDem. Oh the humanity!

(SNP loss increases to 9 seats, RIP)

[RedKing]

Labour wins Glasgow Northeast by 0.8%. GLASGOW.
They had a 24% margin in Glasgow NE before. 

Anybody seen Owlbread, or is he busy playing a funeral dirge on his bagpipes?


EDIT: Ipswich? More like Flipswich, amirite? (flips Tor to Lab).

.....I'm sorry.

[Starver]

As the old saying goes, though, "Ne'er cast a clout 'til May is out"...