Bollitics: The General Election 2010 Exit Poll

[mykeyb]

I wonder how keen Mandy would have been on electoral reform had Labour been around the 326 mark on the exit poll.

I guess not so.............

[Reality]

BNP candidate looked like a bit of an old biggot, but I'd never say that out loud.

BNP? A bigot? Never man

[Xela]

I voted Conservative.

Sutton Coldfield is as blue as they come anyway... they'll romp it here.

[snowychap]

Right, I'm now on to the Chilean candidate.

It falls slightly short of the Spanish candidate in terms of quality but for value, seems not bad.

Oops, that's a review of what I'm drinking rather than this election.

Wait 'til I hit the Hungarian crap. (Apologies, Tony)

[mykeyb]

Very disappointed to see the Teresa May the BBC have on is the Tory MP rather than the glamour model

[Santa_Rosa]

Houghton and Sunderland South is my constituency, and the tennis centre about 10 minutes from my house. A bit weird to be the centre of the nation's focus for a moment. Result not surprising of course. I went Lib Dem btw

[TheEgo]

Updated Exit poll:

Cons 305

Lab 255

Libs 61

[Santa_Rosa]

Never been the brightest in Sunderland.

:?

[tonyh29]

revised Exit has Libs onto 61 now ..

swing in Sunderland was actually 12% away from Labour ...

Wait 'til I hit the Hungarian crap. (Apologies, Tony)

it's wine ..do you think i care :-)

[snowychap]

Houghton and Sunderland South is my constituency, and the tennis centre about 10 minutes from my house. A bit weird to be the centre of the nation's focus for a moment. Result not surprising of course. I went Lib Dem btw

I'm rather disappointed that you were not in the hall jumping up and down with a VT banner, mate.

[Reality]

revised Exit has Libs onto 61 now ..

swing in Sunderland was actually 12% away from Labour ...

Wait 'til I hit the Hungarian crap. (Apologies, Tony)

it's wine ..do you think i care :-)

Where is that from? The BBC reported saying it was 8.4%?

[leviramsey]

Why the hating on the south side of Sunderland? Whatever it's faults, it does have one of the best BBQ joints in the world...

[snowychap]

Wait 'til I hit the Hungarian crap. (Apologies, Tony)

it's wine ..do you think i care :-)

Oh, I think you care - I just think you don't know. :winkold:

[TheEgo]

12% away from Labour takes into account all other votes, i.e Cons 8.4 libs ?% others ?% etc = 12%

[PaulMcgrathsknees]

Never been the brightest in Sunderland.

:?

Footnote:

The majority anyway!

[tonyh29]

Where is that from? The BBC reported saying it was 8.4%?

Sky news

shows labours vote as -12 , Tory as +5 and others as +7

[leviramsey]

IINM, normal practice in the USA is that if you get in line by the time the polls close, the polls will stay open for you to vote.

[Santa_Rosa]

Houghton and Sunderland South is my constituency, and the tennis centre about 10 minutes from my house. A bit weird to be the centre of the nation's focus for a moment. Result not surprising of course. I went Lib Dem btw

I'm rather disappointed that you were not in the hall jumping up and down with a VT banner, mate.

Spoken like a man who's never been to Silksworth. I'd keep it that way if I were you - they're still smarting about the Carling Cup round these parts

[Santa_Rosa]

Never been the brightest in Sunderland.

:?

Footnote:

The majority anyway!

I'll take that mate

[leviramsey]

Where is that from? The BBC reported saying it was 8.4%?

Sky news

shows labours vote as -12 , Tory as +5 and others as +7

But the swing in question is from Labour to Tory, which means that you split the sum of changes... (12+5)/2=8.5.

Or at least that's the way I understand it.