UK Election Megathread - Countdown to polling

cruiserweight

InTheTrees wrote: »

What time will they start showing the results on tv? As soon as the polls close at 6pm? 8pm? there's that one constituency that always reports first isnt there?

I'm in the US so finding coverage wont be easy but it sounds like its going to be exciting.

Polls close at 10:00pm, coverage starts about 5-10 minutes before that

ArmaniJeanss

InTheTrees wrote: »

What time will they start showing the results on tv? As soon as the polls close at 6pm? 8pm? there's that one constituency that always reports first isnt there?

I'm in the US so finding coverage wont be easy but it sounds like its going to be exciting.

Exit Poll at 10PM GMT when polling finishes.
First result around 00.00 GMT.
First key trend constituencies around 00.30 Friday.
After the above they'll be able to call an overall result with huge accuracy.

InTheTrees

10pm? Thanks. Thats 2pm for me. For once the time diff works for me (i'm 8 hours behind) so I'll stay home this afternoon to watch.

My mum used to live in a village within camerons whitney constituency and anyone I talked to thought he was a dick. As do I.

mike65

Guardian cut out and keep guide to the election count schedule

robinph

They have some crazy fast counters in some constituencies which can sometimes get their results out within the hour. I heard that one of them thought they could do it by 10:45pm.

Most won't be that quick or in that much of a rush though, just a couple of places that race each other to be first.

voted lib dem in Aberdeen

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What's a "Portillo Moment", I've seen it referenced in a few places

mike65

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVvWE6V9ulE

The man himself reflects on the time and the chance of another such moment tonight

Dozen Wicked Words

Des wrote: »

What's a "Portillo Moment", I've seen it referenced in a few places

Getting beaten by a nobody when you are in a supposed safe seat.

robinph

Des wrote: »

What's a "Portillo Moment", I've seen it referenced in a few places

Probably if one of the party leaders/ cabinet/ shadow cabinet loose their seats.

Mr.Micro

steelcityblues wrote: »

Can't see Cameron being more than a one-term prime minister.

As long as Labour don't elect either Harman or Balls as their next leader, then they can begin a slow road to recovery and have a good chance next time around!

By then maybe Labour will decide if it is Conservative or ultra Conservative because it sure is Labour in name only. Good riddance to Brown and his corrupt party. I hope that the Lib. Dems will hold a good balance of power as it may help keep in check the 2 undesirables Brown and Cameron, whichever Clegg decides to wed to form a Government.

ejmaztec

InTheTrees wrote: »

10pm? Thanks. Thats 2pm for me. For once the time diff works for me (i'm 8 hours behind) so I'll stay home this afternoon to watch.

My mum used to live in a village within camerons whitney constituency and anyone I talked to thought he was a dick. As do I.

I used to work near Witney, and Cameron's predecessors were also dicks. Hell will be well frozen over before that true-blue Tory constituency ever changes hands, which is why he's got it.:(

ArmaniJeanss

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

First result around 00.00 GMT.
First key trend constituencies around 00.30 Friday.
After the above they'll be able to call an overall result with huge accuracy.

robinph wrote: »

I heard that one of them thought they could do it by 10:45pm.
Most won't be that quick or in that much of a rush though, just a couple of places that race each other to be first.

Yep, your right.
Heres a list of when the expected return is by constituency, the first is due at 11 and a few more at 11.30, after 1am they'll start flowing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7083987/General-Election-2010-results.html

robinph

DeVore

I'm on the panel of the Newstalk 106 election coverage in the Berkley Court hotel. If anyone else is around, do say hi!

I'll try and update here too.... I'm excited about this (far more then about Irish politics).

DeV.

sceptre

dooferoaks wrote: »

Getting beaten by a nobody when you are in a supposed safe seat.

robinph wrote: »

Probably if one of the party leaders/ cabinet/ shadow cabinet loose their seats.

A Portillo moment is really a combination of both of those - a high level front bencher in a seat as safe as you can get being knocked out completely unexpectedly by someone of whom you've never heard, leading to almost universal partying in the streets as a consequence.

Conveniently, Michael Portillo also wrote a piece in today's Guardian all about it.

The constituency you'll be watching for a possible Portillo moment this time is Morley & Outwood (in West Yorkshire).

mike65

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BroomBurner

I'm loving this election aswell, British politics has so much more high drama than Irish. The electorate there still believe anything is possible.

Stuck watching it on stupid Sky though. :mad: I have no idea why they think we want to see the coverage of predominantly haggard, middle-aged men, in high definition. I shudder at the idea of The Boulten Factor (that's what the nob he called his programme) being so clear to see.

I would love to have had the chance to buy today's Mirror. Brilliant cover, far and away the best of the day.

Come of the LibDems!

Oh, on an historical note, while England is known as the oldest democracy, the idea of a community voting for their representatives was first introduced to England by the Saxons ;-)

LordSutch

BroomBurner wrote: »

Oh, on an historical note, while the UK is known as the oldest democracy, the idea of a community voting for their representatives was first introduced to England by the Saxons ;-)

Are you sure that 'the UK' is know as the oldest democracy :cool:

BroomBurner

Camelot wrote: »

Are you sure that 'the UK' is know as the oldest democracy :cool:

After the deposing of princedoms such as your own, I can understand the hatred you may have to the term united kingdom



Yeah, I know, I was too lazy to write England and it bit me in the ass.

owenc

Mr.Micro wrote: »

By then maybe Labour will decide if it is Conservative or ultra Conservative because it sure is Labour in name only. Good riddance to Brown and his corrupt party. I hope that the Lib. Dems will hold a good balance of power as it may help keep in check the 2 undesirables Brown and Cameron, whichever Clegg decides to wed to form a Government.

Why do so many irish people hate the conservatives?? but yet people up here hate labour!! Good one about labour can't wait to get rid of them, sick of gordon brown, today a group of english from my class were saying that they can't stick him and he can't do his job.

owenc

BroomBurner wrote: »

After the deposing of princedoms such as your own, I can understand the hatred you may have to the term united kingdom



Yeah, I know, I was too lazy to write England and it bit me in the ass.

I hate this its the uk not england we are not england we are the uk, sick of people from down south calling people in the uk england we are not england get your facts right!!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

amacachi

BroomBurner wrote: »

I'm loving this election aswell, British politics has so much more high drama than Irish. The electorate there still believe anything is possible.

Stuck watching it on stupid Sky though. :mad: I have no idea why they think we want to see the coverage of predominantly haggard, middle-aged men, in high definition. I shudder at the idea of The Boulten Factor (that's what the nob he called his programme) being so clear to see.

I would love to have had the chance to buy today's Mirror. Brilliant cover, far and away the best of the day.

Come of the LibDems!

Oh, on an historical note, while England is known as the oldest democracy, the idea of a community voting for their representatives was first introduced to England by the Saxons ;-)

BBC will be quite a bit better than Sky. They're usually faster with the seat counts as well.

BroomBurner

owenc wrote: »

I hate this its the uk not england we are not england we are the uk, sick of people from down south calling people in the uk england we are not england get your facts right!!! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Seriously, owenc, read the post that I was replying to.

In fact, while I called it England, it was actually Britania, I think. It was the Saxons that changed it to Engeland.

Where's Camelot with the ole facts..?

BroomBurner

amacachi wrote: »

BBC will be quite a bit better than Sky. They're usually faster with the seat counts as well.

No BBC either Just Sky, and the internet. Thank God for the latter.

I loved how the Daily Mail tied in the awful deaths in Athens to what will happen if Labour get in to power :eek:

ejmaztec

owenc wrote: »

Why do so many irish people hate the conservatives?? but yet people up here hate labour!! Good one about labour can't wait to get rid of them, sick of gordon brown, today a group of english from my class were saying that they can't stick him and he can't do his job.

I was born in England and I've always hated the Tories.:P

It's fashionable to hate Labour at the moment, and it will soon be fashionable to hate the Tories again.

owenc

BroomBurner wrote: »

No BBC either Just Sky, and the internet. Thank God for the latter.

I loved how the Daily Mail tied in the awful deaths in Athens to what will happen if Labour get in to power :eek:

Is the irish dailymail the same one that is printed for the uk?

getz

BroomBurner wrote: »

Seriously, owenc, read the post that I was replying to.

In fact, while I called it England, it was actually Britania, I think. It was the Saxons that changed it to Engeland.

Where's Camelot with the ole facts..?

it was called england once the angles invaded, angle- land,even though they never occupied more than on small part of it in the south east

BroomBurner

owenc wrote: »

Is the irish dailymail the same one that is printed for the uk?

No, the Irish Daily Mail takes a completely different angle to Irish politics as the UK one does to British politics.

owenc

BroomBurner wrote: »

No, the Irish Daily Mail takes a completely different angle to Irish politics as the UK one does to British politics.

thanks..

BroomBurner

getz wrote: »

it was called england once the angles invaded, angle- land,even though they never occupied more than on small part of it in the south east

Yeah, I think it was Brittania during Roman rule. After the fall of the Romans and the Viking invasions, the Anglo-Saxons, from Germany, set up shop.

amacachi

BroomBurner wrote: »

No BBC either Just Sky, and the internet. Thank God for the latter.

Whereabouts are you if you don't mind me asking? How are you receiving Sky News, if it's satelite you should be able to manually tune in BBC.

mike65

BroomBurner is renting from James Murdoch.

Guardian live blog spotted this

7.40pm: The BBC journalist Martha Kearney, who is presenting tonight's election results programme on Radio 4, could be in trouble.

My colleague Matt Wells points out that she appears to have broken the BBC's election rules by tweeting the following:

Live blog: Twitter

Senior Tory tells me they have small overall majority.

and this:

Lab campaign source tells they think 310-320 for Cons; 280 for Lab. 71% turnout

They may or may not have been deleted by the time you read this.

BroomBurner

amacachi wrote: »

Whereabouts are you if you don't mind me asking? How are you receiving Sky News, if it's satelite you should be able to manually tune in BBC.

While I'd prefer not to say where exactly, the TV here is through wireless, as opposed to a dish. It really wouldn't be worth my while dicking about with the channel tuner.

Brussels Sprout

Just cast my vote in a little church in Devon-feels a bit weird considering I only moved here 6 weeks ago.

Kinda wanted to vote for the Communist Party candidate for the craic but as it's boring first past the post I decided I'd better not waste my vote.

pfy2k

Oh no, it looks like I am going to have to live under a Tory Government, when I move to the UK. Oh well, better then the Bog trotter Paddy's that run this kip!:D

sceptre

BroomBurner wrote: »

Oh, on an historical note, while England is known as the oldest democracy, the idea of a community voting for their representatives was first introduced to England by the Saxons ;-)

Camelot wrote: »

Are you sure that 'the UK' is know as the oldest democracy :cool:

Not that it particularly matters to the point of the thread but given that even by 1800 only about 4-5% of the UK (as it was post-1707) had a vote, despite the first elected English parliament being in 1265, making it certainly an oligarchy prior to the reform bill in 1832, the oldest (currently surviving) democracy title almost certainly belongs elsewhere. All free men could attend Althing sessions in Iceland in 930. That's part of the reason Iceland is usually given the prize. The Isle of Man Tynwald dates from 979, though it spent a chunk of time as a judicial court rather than a parliament and didn't have elections till 1866. All French males voted for the national assembly parliament in 1792. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts introduced universal male suffrage before the French, in 1620. South Australia introduced women's suffrage (and hence universal suffrage) in 1861. Ireland introduced universal suffrage in 1921. Meanwhile, long after many, the UK introduced universal male suffrage in 1918, plus votes for women over 30 and actual universal suffrage in 1928. That's so recent that my surviving grandmother is older than that.

Magna Carta created a parliament, not a democracy. The democracy happened in little stages over the next six hundred years or so.

Not that it's got anything to do with the point of the thread, but someone asked for facts. might be an interesting discussion in another, more appropriate thread at some point in the future. Call it "What is democracy? A historical question, who was first?" or something and shove it in Political Theory

Of course, there's Switzerland, which gave federal votes to women in 1971 and finished with cantonal votes in the last holdout of universal suffrage in 1990 and it took a court case to achieve that.

The Volt

UKIP Plane crash caused by dodgy right wing, apparently. :pac:

getz

BroomBurner wrote: »

Yeah, I think it was Brittania during Roman rule. After the fall of the Romans and the Viking invasions, the Anglo-Saxons, from Germany, set up shop.

the angles settled in east anglia and with the saxons they set up a country called mercia, that was all of the south of england and up as far as the humber,at school i was told that the oldest democracy was the isle of man.

RichTea

Apparently it's not shaping up very well for Gordon Brown or Nick Clegg.
I think we might be stuck with a Tory government. What a horrible thought.

A Dub in Glasgo

Just back from a lovely evening stroll to vote - Lib Dem for me and the wife

Euro_Kraut

mike65 wrote: »

Lab campaign source tells they think 310-320 for Cons; 280 for Lab. 71% turnout

They may or may not have been deleted by the time you read this.

Hmmm if the conservatives got 310 and Labour got 280, that would be a total of 590 - leaving only 60 seats for the LibDems, DUP, SNP, etc.

Doesn't seem plausible.

getz

looking on how things are in my area blackpool, i notice that the UKIP party have been doing a lot of campaigning,this area has a very large older and retired population,most still have no love for the EU, so dont be suprised if they get in at least one MP

owenc

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

Hmmm if the conservatives got 310 and Labour got 280, that would be a total of 590 - leaving only 60 seats for the LibDems, DUP, SNP, etc.

Doesn't seem plausible.

maybe no ones voting for the dup!!:P:P They could've changed to uup most of my teachers (history) were saying that they were going to vote for the conservatives and not the dup... most of them voted for dup last time and some of them never voted.. most people want to vote because the conservatives came here. If labour and lib dems came then far more people would vote as you could get out of the box and not vote for them bigoted parties!!:mad:

Vokes

Just back from voting at the polling station in Ealing (a 3-way marginal apparently). All very quiet down there now.

owenc

Just back from polling station in town, it was absolutely packed!!! I wasn't expecting that people were queuing out the door omg!! My dad said the one in the church hall that he went to this morning was empty lol!! omg but it was packed out the door there was a line and everything!

cruiserweight

Channel 4 election coverage has started at 9. It is not as serious as the coverage on other channels, a bit on the lighter side

owenc

Vokes wrote: »

Just back from voting at the polling station in Ealing (a 3-way marginal apparently). All very quiet down there now.

copy cat!!:mad::mad: lol

BroomBurner

Whoever is doing the light projection work for Sky is worth their salt. Brilliant light art being proected on the Battersea Power Station.

35 minutes until polling closes!

owenc

BroomBurner wrote: »

Whoever is doing the light projection work for Sky is worth their salt. Brilliant light art being proected on the Battersea Power Station.

35 minutes until polling closes!

what a typical time for my mother to go!! 35 minutes before it closes!:rolleyes: