LIVE THREAD: UK Election Results (Update - Early Exit Polls Show Tory Upset)

BBC ^ | May 5, 2005 | anonymous

[tellw]

The Vote is under way!

[SmithL]

Has Zogby announced a winner?

[Calpernia]

ping

[TheBigB]

CBS News reports East Hertfordshire goes to Al Gore!

[MindBender26]

Zogby is NEVER the winner.... in more ways than one!

[yellowdoghunter]

Thanks for posting this. I am sure Blair will win...the story will be by how much or how little.....

Will be watching for results to be posted.

[oolatec]

What about the exit polls? ;)

[Calpernia]

live thread ping

[G.Mason]

bump

[HostileTerritory]

Polls close at 10:00 PM in Britain. It's 4:00 PM now.

[gopwinsin04]

What do the exit polls say?

[bella1]

This will be the only time in my life that i want a liberal to win.

[Huck]

Vote? You don't vote for king!

[HostileTerritory]

Check back at the end of the workday.

[tellw]

The best result for the U.S./U.K. coalition of the willing would be losses by the LibDems to Conservatives, but Labour keeping a comfortable enough margin to secure Tony Blair as PM. That will negate Iraq from the next election.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

This just in:

"Mrs. Elsie ZZZZZzzzzzzzUT! ("Silly"): 26,317. Phillip Walter ("Sensible"): 26,318. Arthur Peter Brown Telescope Adrian Blackpool Rock Stoat-Gobbler John Raw Vegetable (whwhwhwhwhuh) Norman Michael (ding ding ding) (tweeet!) Edward (Honk, honk) 'Shubiddy shubiddy shubiddy' (low honk) Thomas 'Oh, we'll keep a welcome in' (BANG!) Williams (rising whistle) 'Rain-drops keep falling on my' (whing!) 'Don't sleep in the subway' (Cuckoo cuckoo) nyeuueneuhuenhuh Smith ("very silly"): 2."

"Well there you have it, a sensible gain there at Harperton with the silly vote being split."

[NeoCaveman]

Have the bookies started paying out yet?

In prior year (landslides) they paid before the polls even opened.

[HostileTerritory]

There's a schedule of BBC press coverage at the bottom. Subtract 5 hours for Eastern Time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4513703.stm

We are several hours away from getting any meaningful news.

[Dane]

What time do the polls close?

I believe that GMT is 5 hours ahead of EDT.

Also do they still announce the results with all the candidates there.

Monty Python did a hilarious sketch about that with the "loon" party participating.

[JohnBDay]

I am sure Blair will win...the story will be by how much or how little.....

It won't be so much a Blair victory as much as a Labour victory. If Labour loses more than 50 seats, Gordon Brown will be Prime Minister within a year.