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I'm pleased with the turn outs...70% is impressive.

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Did the Labour candidate for Guildford nearly lose his deposit? He got 5.06% and IIRC the limit is 5%.

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I am beginning to feel more sorry for the LibDems at their rather lacklustre performance so far.

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It's gonna be close but it looks as if the Tory need to win some unexpected seats to get Majority.

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Exeter is Lab Hold. Tories fail to gain Angus which was number 41 on their list. Swings are all over the place.

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Most are away from Labour and towards Tories though.

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I just saw that Ben Bradshaw has retained Exeter. Wasn't he the one who had his Tory opponent slag him off because he was gay?

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Loughborough is tory gain

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Previous opponent, back in 97

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It is rather odd so far, after the recent polls & so on...

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Labour retake Glasgow East.

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It was already Labour wasn't it?

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It would seem most of Scotland would vote Labour if the candidate were Adolf Hitler.

Glasgow East went Lib Dem during a bi-election.

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Does anyone know where to look at these lists to see where each constituency is?

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SNP won it in 2008 by election

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Ouch. Exit polls looking correct. Lib Dems will lose seats.

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If CON get no Scottish seats, Salmond throws his toys out of his pram and splits the union and he can have his precious Scotland.

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Aberconwy won by Conservatives from Labour

7.6% swing :D

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Con gain - Aberconvy. 7.6% swing.

That's unheard of.

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Yes, in 1997 - can't you stop smearing.....

(btw, the candidate at the time should not have done it, but what is the relevance to this election)

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I thought it was LibDem.


EDIT: Just checked and you're right, it was SNP.

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Er, no, because Labour is also a unionist party and it will remain the largest Westminster party by far. Labour may not be the Westminster government after this, but there is still an overwhelming support for unionist parties in Scotland.

Sure, Salmond will use the results to press his pet cause, but he had better not be too noisy about it, or else someone might point out that his own party's share of the vote has actually dropped.

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This is handy:

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

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Because Aberconwy is a new seat.

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John Mason would object to being mistaken for a LibDem

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Con gain - Vale of Glamorgan

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Con get Montgomeryshire :D

Wow! 13.2%!

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Now 3 CON gains in Wales. Looking good.

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Con gain - Mongomeryshire

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Lembit Opik has been dumped in Montgomeryshire in favour of the Conservatives - swing of 13%

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Lembit Opik has lost his seat.

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And that means Lembit Opik is out of politics now.

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Still, he's probably got some cheeky girls back in his hotel room waiting for him! :D

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Lembit "Cheeky Boy" Opik has lost his seat to the Tories.

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Gains coming in all over the place for Tories - all seats nicked from Labour lol.

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And Lib Dems.

Anyhoo. Labour have maintained a couple more seats. Looking like a Hung Parliament.

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Watching the returns at the constituencies, i wonder if anyone else is not finding it hard to spot the Nazi candidates.

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Byebye Lembit Opik ...

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Con gain - Basildon south (7.5%)

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Seems that was a one-off. 13.5% swing with Sky suggesting it was dislike of Opik that did it.

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The one positive thing from the election so far is that the Nazis don't seem to be getting many votes. Most seem to be losing their deposits.

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Target 19, Chester, goes to the Tories.

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Gee, I wonder why....

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I agree with you on that, but think there is more than one positive thing from this election so far....;)

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Alistair Campbell is getting annoyed with Sky. Fun.

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The BNP are unlikely to win Barking and their share of the vote, as the moment, has increased but by a small amount so that's quite good! We always hear about all these hidden BNP supporters but their numbers are never shown in the polls.

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BBC at Witney, wouldn't it be funny if..... ;)

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...you turned out to really be Peter Mandleson?

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The main worry there is the council elections.

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Somerton and Frome is a Tory Miss.

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Is she cute?

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Loyd looks like he's been badly Photoshoped.

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Liberal Democrats gain Eastborne from The Tories and Hold Eastligh. They lost one to the Tories as well but I missed that.

Labour have held Birmingham Edgebaston which is a shock apparently

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Says a recount for Edgebaston on the BBC @ 2:47am.

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I know it's no indication, but with nearly twenty-five per cent of the seats called, Labour aren't doing too bad. ;)

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22% - 150 out of 650.

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Re-count at Edgbaston. Do they really count all the slips over again?

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No idea. Think it's time voting moved into the computer age and put technology into it.

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Of course. Why wouldn't they?

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Taunton Deane, Tory target 29, has remained Lib Dem.

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I think they are just recounting the piles of votes.

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They aren't. Counting bundles.

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I assume that is a rhetorical question, as you seem normally quite up to speed on political things.

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Can't remember the name of the seat they lost, just that it was one where the sitting MP was retiring.

Eastbourne (gain) - 4% swing from the Tories.

Eastleigh (hold) - 3% swing from the Tories.

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LOL Boss Hogg is standing in Whitney :p:

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Was good to see Cameron give him a big hand shake and a fun smile :)

The labour candidate looks like he's not used to wearing a suit.

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More media-seeking nutters with Cameron than with Brown.

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Now that's no way to refer to the Witney Labour candidate :D

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Such a difference between Cameron and Brown.

Brown drones on with a completely boiler plate speech. Even he sounds fed up and bored about saying about protecting the recovery, the armed forces, etc. Cameron sounds passionate and far more dynamic than Brown.

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It's now 76 - 76 with 183 declerations.

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Did people in Witney actually vote for that mess of a Labour candidate?:rolleyes:

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Dover gone Tory, was on of their targets seats but a high one at 99.

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Cambridgeshire South - Tory Hold (Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health)

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Clegg should partner with Cameron if he's smart.

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Con gain Dover.

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He certainly looked uncomfortable, didn't he.

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Darling kept his seat.

I wish he'd either dye his hair or dye his eyebrows.

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Who? The labour candidate?
Cameron certainly didn't, nor did "Boss Hog"
Cameron even chatted with him before giving his speach.

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All evening Labour MPs have been droning on about wanting constitutional change the same as the LibDems etc. They've already whoring themselves out to get the LibDems to partner with them, desperate to cling onto power.

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I can see that being a more trustworthy agreement (not a coalition though)

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Yes but it's the Lib Dems choice. They haven't had a great showing so far so I don't think it would look good or really work if they partnered with Labour when neither gained seats.

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A. Johnson has been re-elected :(

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I like Alan Johnson...

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Harlow gone Tory. Was going to happen anyway, wafer thin majority. I met that MP, I went to college there.

Dartford also gone Tory

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Con gain Harlow...

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Yup. In 2005 is was very close. Was going to go Tory baring any massive local issues.

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Tories are on 108 to Labour's 102

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Con gain Bedford. That's 25 now.

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Slow counting... At the end of the day though what's going to really change apart from the face?

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Re-count in Oxford West & Abingdon...

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Ed Balls might lose his seat.

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Rochdale (home of "that bigoted woman") - Labour *Gain*

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Hold surely?

Jacqui Smith might be on her way out.

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Gain. Beeb wrong. The Lib Dems took it from Labour in 2005. Now Labour have taken it back.

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I give up. I can't stay up any longer - I need to get up for work at 8am.

I wanted the Cambridge and Oxford & Abingdon results by now :(

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I'm going bed, this is going on too long lol.

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Burton gone Tory, and Goole and Northampton South

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That's wrong Matt - that is a Labour hold - Labour so far have not gained any seats.

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Jacqui Smith out.

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Tories gained Swindon South - some idiots booing.

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Almost certain to be a Hung Parliament now right?

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Esther Rantzen has not won the seat she was contesting. That's life I guess.

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Luton South - Labour hold

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Labour's 1st gained seat Chesterfield from LD.

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Blergh, the birds have just started up outside my window. I want to go to bed, but the election is gripping!