Bollitics: The General Election 2010 Exit Poll

[LondonLax]

Rumours circulating that Brown (once he wakes up) will resign.

Was he talking in his sleep about it?

[Jez]

Rumours circulating that Brown (once he wakes up) will resign.

I would have a lot of respect for him if he did that, realised when he's not wanted.

[Demitri_C]

Ah so what you are saying is that you think this will result in a Lib - Con alliance and that Labour will not be in gvmt, NOT that they are finished?

I will have a pint bet with you young sir - I say there will be no Lib - Con coalition - (I also think there will not be a Lib - Lab one also with Dave having to go - and probably fail at the first hurdle - with a minority gvmt) - unless of course Camoron is prepared to commit to electoral reform

no i didnt mean the tories and lib dems i menat tories with the smaller parties. i agree with you no way will there be a deal between lib dems and tories. i think clegg would have gone with brown but if he is ruling out going in with them then labour dont have a chance.

This is not getting my bloody work done Grrrrrrrr

that makes two of us!

[The_Rev]

So, which individual candidate got the fewest votes? You always seem to get some fool from a small or novelty party standing for election in a seat where there is a "celebrity" up for election, Luton South (Esther Rantzen) and Barking (Nick Griffin) are standing, probably so they can be on the telly when the results are called.

I noticed some bloke called Dapo Sijuwola of the Restoration Party got just 45 votes in Barking, which is just about half of what the guy from the Monster Raving Loony Party got. Did anybody do worse than 45?

**edit**

Found one already. Enfield and Southgate The Better Britain Party polled just 35 votes. :oops:

[Demitri_C]

rev nick griffin has already been on and lose the scumbag!

latest update tory press conference at 14:30

Election 2010: First hung parliament in UK for decades

David Cameron: "The Labour government has lost its mandate to govern our country"

The Conservatives have won the most MPs in the UK general election but fallen short of a majority, leading to the first hung parliament since 1974.

As counting continues the Tories have gained 92 seats, Labour have lost 86 and the Lib Dems six, despite hopes of a breakthrough for the third party.

The battle is now under way to see which leader can form a government.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the situation was "fluid" but the Tories had the first right to seek to govern.

Arriving back at Lib Dem headquarters in London, he said: "It is vital that all parties, all political leaders, act in the national interest and not out of narrow party political advantage."

'National interest'

He said he "stuck by" his view that the party with the biggest mandate - in terms of votes and seats - should have the right to seek to govern first. "It seems this morning, that it's the Conservative Party that has more votes and more seats though not an absolute majority.

"I think it's now for the Conservative Party to prove that it's capable of seeking to govern in the national interest."

ELECTION 2010: AT-A-GLANCE

Brown 'proud of Labour's record'

Labour loses mandate - Cameron

'Disappointing night' for Lib Dems

Lembit Opik loses seat

First Minister Robinson loses seat

Jacqui Smith loses her seat

Caroline Lucas is first Green MP

BNP increases votes but no seats

Labour retake Blaenau Gwent

Conservative leader David Cameron will make a statement at 1430 BST in which he will set out how he will seek to form a government that is "strong and stable" with broad support that acts in the national interest.

The Tories have won 291 seats so far but it is now not possible for them to reach the 326 seats needed to win an overall majority.

Mr Brown, whose party has 251 seats so far, has returned to Downing Street with aides and is expected to make an offer to Mr Clegg's Lib Dems, who have so far won 51 seats, to try to form a coalition government.

He said earlier: "My duty in all of this is that there be a stable, strong and principled government and to play my part in making that possible.

Downing Street has authorised the civil service to support other parties in hung parliament negotiations - essentially giving the go-ahead for talks to begin.

The BBC projection suggests David Cameron's Conservatives will have 306 seats. If there are 10 Unionists elected in Northern Ireland then Mr Cameron might be able to command 316 - probably still slightly too few for him to be sure of winning a Queen's Speech.

But Labour and the Lib Dems together would have 317 seats, according to the BBC figures, which even with three SDLP MPs would still leave them at 320 - again a few votes short of a majority

[mjmooney]

Looks like a genuine draw after extra time then.

Assuming away goals don't count double, we should have a penalty shootout.

[tonyh29]

Found one already. Enfield and Southgate The Better Britain Party polled just 35 votes.

I'm sure at the Brighton Pavilion vote someone got 19

Edit : yep Leo Atreides of the ND (No Description ) party ..19 votes

Take a bow son

[AVFCLaura]

Enfield and Southgate The Better Britain Party polled just 35 votes. :oops:

That's so embarassing, could he not even convince more than 35 of his own friends and family to vote? Jesus.

[AVFCLaura]

Found one already. Enfield and Southgate The Better Britain Party polled just 35 votes.

I'm sure at the Brighton Pavilion vote someone got 19

You're right, 19 votes. Brighton Pavilion

[drat01]

That's so embarassing, could he not even convince more than 35 of his own friends and family to vote? Jesus.

Jesus could only get 11 - Judas went off and sided with someone else

[mjmooney]

Didn't somebody a few elections back try to get the smallest ever vote by campaigning on a "Don't vote for me" ticket?

[The_Rev]

That's so embarassing, could he not even convince more than 35 of his own friends and family to vote? Jesus.

Jesus could only get 11 - Judas went off and sided with someone else

To be fair, that is an impressive 92% of the vote.

[The_Rev]

Found one already. Enfield and Southgate The Better Britain Party polled just 35 votes.

I'm sure at the Brighton Pavilion vote someone got 19

You're right, 19 votes. Brighton Pavilion

They got less than a third of the votes that the Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality party got.

[mykeyb]

So Mandy reckons that the British Public have not given the Tories a clear mandate to form the next government.....

Im not sure that the British Public voted for a Lib/Lad coalition either.

[Jon]

on another note emile is back with a lovely dress, stylish lady she is. She's done a great job on the statistics front for the BBC throughout their coverage.

VillaTalk word filter FTL!

[jonno_2004]

on another note emile is back with a lovely dress, stylish lady she is. She's done a great job on the statistics front for the BBC throughout their coverage.

VillaTalk word filter FTL!

What should it be?

[Jon]

rev nick griffin

he's the last person I would have expected to go all religious ....

[Jon]

on another note emile is back with a lovely dress, stylish lady she is. She's done a great job on the statistics front for the BBC throughout their coverage.

VillaTalk word filter FTL!

What should it be?

Emil-y

[Anthony]

When all the results are in I'd like to do some number crunching; I have a hunch that in England the Cunservatives got a much higher proportion of the vote than over Britain as a whole. I recall that the non-English national parties in Westminster don't vote, as a point of principle, on issues where the assemblies have devolved powers. Any road up it's all quite interesting.

As to the general result it's just a real shame that people stuck with what they knew, rather than having the courage of their convictions. Seems my fear of the low morale of the Liberal voters wasn't so wide of the mark.

[Gringo]

Tory government - 1997 - Landslide

Labour government - 2010 - Hung parliament

In theory with the world wide recession they should have got a landslide but as I said earlier the population seem a little bit more clued up about elections these days, sticking a few posters up just won't cut it these days. Tactical voting may have played a part but I suspect we will never know.

And in between 97 and 2010 Labour implemented a number of boundary changes which made the likelihood of a Labour "defeat" less likely.

It was always going to be tough for the Conservatives to get a huge majority

And the tories had made the same amount of boundary changes between 1979 and 1997. Bliar overcame, Dave was overcome.