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Oooooh, polling stations closing now

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Exit Poll suggests that there will be a Hung Parliament with the Lib Dems losing seats. Losing Seats!

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still an hour to go at mine ...

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Labour seems to have held up ok.

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Exit Poll = Tory with 307 ~~ Labour with 255 and Lib Dems with 59

So possibly hung but maybe minority government

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Well the race is on now.... who will it be....?

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My local Labour MP :)

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So if the Exit Poll is correct then I guess lots of Liberal Democrats have gone back to Labour, as their vote is doing a lot better than expected.

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According to the BBC Brown has first chance to form a government.

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Under your logic, only 440,000 people (not counting all the millionaire Labour supporters) would give their vote to the Tories - your premise is illogical, Captain. ;)

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Nick Robinson just said that if its a hung parliament Brown can stay in power until he can do a deal with Lib Dems. If he does, he stays in power even though the Tories won.

Flaming Norah that's depressing :( We'll never be rid of him at this rate.

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After 1992, I never trusted polls.

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Just what me and the mrs were saying... I bet there is all sorts of deals trying to be struck in the background as we speak :erm:

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Anyone want to form a collation against the Mods? They can't keep hanging on to power!

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Yes! Power to the Rockers!

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no thanks i'd go nuts trying to keep you in line :D

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They'll form an alliance with the "Clique".....

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Why are we listening to the Polls? Have they not gone back to Poland?

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lets man up;)

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Yeh! coming over here, asking us questions, interpreting (see what I did there) our data.......

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What clique?

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Oh yeah. Wait. Am I part of the Clique? Are you? I don't know which side I am on anymore! I guess I'll just form a collation with whoever has a mandate.

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lol

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Nothing, nothing - forget I ever said anything...............


There is no Clique, there has never been a Clique, and anyone that didn't mention the Clique before didn't disappear mysteriously - OK!



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yup your a liberal :)

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Interesting... A higher turnout in sunderland perhaps? I wonder if the trend will follow nationwide?

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Where are all these Eastern Europeans coming from...

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What time does the result result generally become known? About 4 or 5am isn't it?

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bigot :D

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BlGOT!!!!!!

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Usually the trend is confirmed but given how close it is we may not know for sure until sometime tomorrow.

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Apparently lots of voters turned away in Sheffield.

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Can someone explain to me in simple words what a hung parliament means for Britain and how it changes things?

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http://twitter.com/schwarzenegger

Guess we can all go to bed now.

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i knew it... the yanks have rigged the election

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Waits for Gordon to tweet 'I'll be back...'

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lol :D

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GB gets to hold a vote in the house of commons to remain in power.
To win that vote, the LDs and Labour need to back him to outvote the tories.
If he doesn't win the vote, then (if memory serves) DC can call a vote and if he doesn't win, new election for all.

If GB wins, then Labour would have given concessions to the LDs in return for their votes.
It becomes very hard to get difficult bills through the house because the Tories have so many more MPs so could block anything which they deemed bad for the country if they got a few Labour/LD backbenchers to vote against it as well.

Basically, if a single party has a strong majority, any reasonable bill they bring to the commons will be voted through, it's only bills which cause a huge back bench revolt and are not approved by the opposition which won't get through.


If you look at countries with PR, they tend to get hung parliments due to all the smaller parties having MPs. Israel is a prime example, and the lack of a strong government has damaged the peace process on numerous occasions as so many concessions are needed to get even the basic things done.

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Labour have won first seat of the night. Safe seat though.

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Tuned into C4's Alt Election cpverage. It's quite funny. I dunno wether tp watch it or the real thing now.

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Interesting comparison on the 2005 figures on the beeb though.... but as you say was pretty much a no brainer as to who would have won that seat.

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The chicks on the BBC are totally hot imo :p:

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Mmm, interesting, 8.5% swing to the Blues in a strong Labour seat and they need 7.9% to get 326 seats.

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If it carries on. There was a boundary change as well so I not sure you can compare the swings directly. Does seem to hold up the Lib Dem vote from the exit polls though.

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Funny, as soon as you say that, I look up and see Theresa May :p:

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Loads of people haven't had the chance to vote it seems.

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The hexagon chart is where it is at ;) mmmmmmmmm :p:

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What is wrong with them?

15 hours they have had, plus the option of a postal or proxy vote :rolleyes:

Not like they did not know it was coming :dunce:

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They explained that they had taken the boundary changes into account with the comparisons.

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Exit Poll has been adjusted. Two less seats for the Tories and Two Extra for the Liberal Democrats.

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Whats the deal with people being turned away and not being able to vote with Police being called out?

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Seems like a surge of people wanting to vote in the final hours. Very odd.

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Yeah but that would require breakdowns of votes within the areas of the consistency which I believe they don't have a clear idea of. We need to wait for a lot more seats.

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My problem was that the incumbent MP for this area has consistently been receptive to local issues & was the only candidate to take the trouble to come round & knock on my door & ask what my thoughts were, prior to the election.

I decided she would get my vote, despite representing the Labour party, because she has arguably worked hard for her constituents since election in 1997 & I wanted to try & ensure she would still be in Parliament, even if her party were no longer in the majority.

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People demanding to vote in Islington South, Police called.

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Sit in at Hackney with people who are told they cannot vote.

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Sunderland West goes to Labour. 11.6% Swing to Tory. Looks like they may well be on course for a majority.

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Big swings to the Conservatives in Sunderland. If this keeps up all across the country, then it's DC in No10 tomorrow.

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So far Labour holding some of the "If it's red we'll vote for it" seats with reduced majorities.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/liveevent/

Paxman is chatting about the situation at the moment

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... and Mandelscum is already lining up a new excuse for losing the election. Apparently Labour voters vote late and Tories vote early. Hence all those turned away and denied their vote must be Labourites.

They really are grasping now.

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Yep, I just watched a plump juicy turd in a red rosette carrying Washington.

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Gordon Brown's rivals poised to trigger leadership race: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...ership-contest

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Although I don't think it affects the election isn't that broadly true?

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Probably. Tories are all farmers, so they're up early to do the milking. Labourites are all dole scroungers who have no reason to get out of bed. Figures ... :shrug: ;) :D

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Sunderland Central about to declare. Let's see if the swing holds up. Would be nice for the result to be clear before the markets open at 1am.

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I don't see "we beat the **** 1nil" from Leeds area in the list?

Duke

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Ahhh, so he's confirming that Labour rely on unemployed people who have no need to get up early... ;)

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Could the different approaches to the queue problems be partly to do with the location of the actual voting room. If it is next to a easily accessible area it might be very difficult to close off an area properly with the people properly isolated.

Two possible reasons for the queues:-
1) Labour voters having to get some 'Dutch courage' before voting.:D
2) It takes time for a person to vote 20 times. They cant vote again too quickly or they'll be recognised.

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Washington & Sunderland West (the 2nd seat to declare) had an 11.6% swing from Labour to the Tories.

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Labour hold Sunderland Central. Not sure on swing but it is one the Tories were attempting to win.

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Labour wins Sunderland Central. 4.8% swing to the Tories.

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4.8% Swing. So doesn't hold up there.

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This is crazy. All sorts of issues with voting across the country, people staging sit ins and protests

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Why did these people leave it so late? Why was there a surge of voters in the last election? Did they forget until the news kicked in?

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So what do people think about all these people turned away?

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People in Sheffield are refusing to let the ballot box pass.

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That sounds pretty dodgy, people voting after 10pm surely?

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Late voter surge. Dimbleby saying of one polling station which ran out of ballot papers! Some had people queueing for hours, only to be turned away bang on 10pm. Others let people vote after 10pm so long as they were already in the queue.

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Nah. I think they are just protesting.

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wow all those people who could not vote

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Lots of talk about legal protest though, surely the rules are clear regards hours?

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21st Century Democracy,eh? :erm:

Hopefully these people get to vote...

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Some polling stations reportedly ran out of ballot papers, some stayed open beyond 10pm, some slammed the door closed at 10pm.:erm::o:

...Is George W. advising the electoral commission.:D

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On the one hand, I wonder why didn't they turn up earlier.

However, some people were apparently queueing for up to three hours, so you can't blame them for being late to the polling station. It's also not the fault of voters if the polling station runs out of ballot papers, or only has one person handing ballot papers out, etc. One news item mentioned somewhere (Sheffield?) where lots of students were trying to vote, without polling cards, which then slowed it down for everyone else, causing people who did have polling cards to lose their chance to vote due to the delays.

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what time will we find out who won

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We might not know for ages, we can get a good idea when we have a better idea of the national swing in a few hours time.

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I received a phone call tonight around 6:20pm from one political party reminding me if I had voted, I replied that I had already voted. Could the late queues be because those people have received similar calls?

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Its a bit ridiculous that the polls are open for 15 hours and everyone turns up in the last 30 minutes and then get ****ed off when the polls close without their votes.

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BBC coverage is great fun. David Dimbleby is genuinely angry about the voting issue.

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David Milliband blames the Wash/Sund.land swing on Ashcroft money rofl.

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But does sound like there are going to be a few legal challenges. Some polling stations run out of ballot papers. Some have incorrect electoral roll lists.

Got a feeling this will drag on for a while like in the US in 2000.

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Fair point. If you have not got your card, back of the line. It's not like this was called yesterday... Jeez me and the mrs had to go through the paperwork to register etc so we got our cards and kept them safe. Stoodents eh ;)

Running out of ballot papers, well, who would have thunk it? Lots of people coming out to voice an opinion. They should have thought about that on granted.

But. If they were that hell bent, the polling stations were open at 0700 and there was the option of postal / proxy voting.

No excuse imo, flame me.

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do people whatch this all night

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Until 3/4/5 dependent on when it becomes clear (or if we know it won't be clear for a few hours)

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Is that like lolcat?
I iz in ur No10 makin ur lawz

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I can haz mortgage paymentz?

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The Electoral Commission says it will conduct a "thorough review" of the polling problems.

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If Brown hangs on despite the Tories being only 10 or so seats of a majority then it would be amazing and discredit our stupid system.

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Let's hope it is robust.

ie - if you are a lazy bugger and left it far too late - too bad.

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They say they've ran out of ballot papers in some areas, but would you not think that they'd try and have the same amount of ballot papers as those who were sent a card. If you know what I mean...

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"I got there at 6pm, & there was a queue. I came back at 7pm & there was a queue. I came back at 8pm & there was a queue...then I got turned away when it hit 10pm".

Why not join the queue the first time eh?

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Well, you'd think...

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Can't believe that woman on tv. She went at 6, saw a queue and left. Came back at 7, saw a queue and left. Came back at 9:15 and decided finally to queue and then was locked out. Now she's moaning about not being able to vote. Why not queue at 6pm and vote you silly woman. I went to my polling station at lunchtime (12 noon) and would have queued if there had been one.

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LOL my thoughts exactly.

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I like where Labour say "they may challenge the results".

basically if the Tories win, they will. If they don't, they won't.

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How can Gordon Brown be PM if there is a hung parliament?

Going by exit polls. Labour = 255 + LD = 61. Joining forces together they get a grand total of 316. 10 shy of the magic 326.

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Because people are lazy and television/computers have destroyed their attention spans/patience.

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Indeed. We went to our polling station after dinner and queued for 10 mins max.

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LOL, you have to love the celebs - "The good looking one" ROFL

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I went to my polling station at 6pm and queued untill 10pm. I'd actually voted at 7am but I wanted to discourage others from voting:D

Being there for so long also gave me the opportunity to nick some ballot papers to ensure there weren't enough to go round:D:D

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They had a tea and cake stall at my polling station. :)