UK General Election 2017 Megathread

[MKR&*42]

And the result everyone's been waiting for all night x

Caroline Lucas keeps her seat for the greens! and every other party decreased their vote % in Brighton Pavilion.

[FlyingJesus]

76.4% turnout in Brighton Pav that is insane

[MKR&*42]

I'm not sure if it's announced yet again, cause they're doing a recount, but some Fife region in Scotland keeps being recounted because the last recount had the difference down to a single vote.

It's between Lib Dems and SNP iirc.

Tonight has been very interesting overall.

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Lmfaoo I mean David Dimbleby isn't even being subtle now; "she has TOTALLY FAILED.... TOTAL DISASTER... FELL FLAT".

This has just been announced, the SNP have won by literally 2 votes

Poor libbys.

[lemons]

Labour held onto Newcastle-under-lyme (my uni seat where there was a LOT of voter issues today) by 30 votes

[lemons]

Richmond Park - 55 votes between Tory Zac Goldsmith (won) and the lib dem candidate

Zac Goldsmith who lost to Sadiq Khan, quit Tories after Heathrow expansion go-ahead

[-:Undertaker:-]

Actually when you examine it, the Tories haven't done badly at all. They've increased their percentage from 37% to 42% which is actually historic for a party of government and in usual circumstances 42% would mean a landslide. The problem is, the system has reverted back to the two major parties so they've actually slipped backwards in terms of seats. That's why we've had some strange results through the night with big names losing out.

It shows the challenge that Labour face, even though they've gone from 31% to 40% of the vote, they're still miles away from a Labour majority. Whilst the Tory vote holds at 40%+ they are blocked from government. And vice versa, but less so. The danger is that, with a new PM and new election in the autumn, the Parliament becomes even more hung and then neither is able to cobble together a working majority. At least for the moment the Tory + DUP combo looks workable with the DUP being quite sensible.

Interesting to note how Northern Ireland has also consolidated itself to two parties.

Final Results for NI in #Election2017

DUP 10 (+2)
SF 7 (+3)
SDLP 0 (-3)
UUP 0 (-2)
IND 1 (-)

— SpotlightUlster (@SpotlightUlster) June 9, 2017

My favourite part of the night is seeing Scotland looking similar to the rest of the UK again.

That solid yellow block has been smashed into pieces with splatterings of red, blue and orange.

57 down, 2 to go - the #GE2017 map of Scotland. Check your result here ➡ https://t.co/9uYzFFIMQV pic.twitter.com/2KbAkI0ZzX

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) June 9, 2017

[MKR&*42]

Almost cannot wait until the next election based on how slim these majorities are.

The only interesting area left really is Kensington. Apparently they've done 2 recounts now, because the result is said to be between 30-50 difference.

[lemons]

Theresa May refusing to resign

"We are ready to serve this country" - Labour leader @jeremycorbyn on #hungparliament https://t.co/8xOR0z6PJc #bbcelection #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/cc9h4L2VSb

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 9, 2017

[MKR&*42]

Well that's all the seats done now except Kesington where who **** knows what'll happen and we now have to wait forever for the result.

Con 318
Lab 261
SNP 35
Lib Dem 12
Green 1
Other: whatever's left except 1 for either lab/con depending on Kesington

[FlyingJesus]

I'd like to see her step down and assume responsibility for how bad she's been over the past couple of weeks but if she doesn't then Corbyn really isn't the right person to criticise her