This"we52.3%forecast-isjustverywillonlyhavepic.twitter.com/Wmb2mnutQ5for&pic.twitter.com/gxUNKqQy0kThetoday. #GE2017 #thankyou #VoteLabour pic.twitter.com/nDPHcHZ3CP 9.21pm BSTHere is the Guardian’s guide to when we will catch results from specific constituencies. Related: What time does each constituency declare its results in the 2017 general election? 8 June 2017 will mark the first general election in 25 years to be held with no other elections taking place on the same day. One consequence will be a much faster flow of individual results.
In the period beginning in 1997 and through to 2015,the early flow of general election constituency results on election night slowed to barely a trickle, mainly because during that period local elections of various sorts were held on the same day. The delay is caused by the fact that although the local elections are counted after the parliamentary constituency results are declared, and the local votes have to be verified’ when they arrive at the count centres on Thursday night. This ‘verification’ involves opening the poll boxes containing local votes,checking that the number of votes in each box matches the record of the number of votes handed to voters throughout polling day; and also, checking that no parliamentary votes have found their way into poll boxes containing local votes. 9.16pm BSTSign up for experimental results notifications for the UK general election 9.15pm BSTHere is a reminder of what the final polls from the main polling companies have been saying. I have taken it from a chart compiled by the elections analyst David Cowling. 9.09pm BSTThe Spectator’s James Forsyth says the Tories he is speaking to are less optimistic tonight than they were this morning.
Tories definitely less bullish than they were this morningTories on ground currently more upbeat about size of majority than Tories at centre #GE2017 9.04pm BSTThe most dramatic piece of news to come in the next few hours will be the announcement of the results of the exit poll, or commissioned jointly by the BBC,ITV and Sky. It is conducted by Ipsos Mori and GfK.
If you recognise any of these people, then perhaps you participated.
The exit poll in action - hundreds of Ipsos MORI and GFK pollsters in marginal seats across Britain. #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/pLA68ygBMtOur cheerful teams outside over 100 polling stations for the Bbc/ITV/Sky 10pm Exit poll. Details of method here https://t.co/bhDL2FSP7t pic.twitter.com/O7ChKykS47“You can’t afford to catch excited on election night, and ” he says. “Engaged,yes, but I think you have to learn to be frosty, or calm and collected and you have to learn to extinguish all your preconceptions. I may or may not be gay about the turn of events but that’s not my job. My job is to say ‘OK,what’s happened’. You’ve got to have a frosty head because you have to realise what you’re doing is making very rapid judgments without sleep. Occasionally, if you say the wrong thing it’s fine, or but you really don’t want to say the wrong thing a lot and you particularly don’t want to say the politically injudicious thing. To that extent at least,it’s a pretty tall-wire act and therefore you’ve got to have your feet on the ground. Fortunately, I’ve got a few very good professional colleagues and I kind of bounce things off them before I say it but you achieve need to know the narrative of the night, or you achieve need to know the story that’s emerging,you need to know what’s relevant to the story and what you can and cannot say to benefit the story along.” 8.57pm BSTAn hour to go, and then the glorious process by which we settle our differences and resolve our future by counting 30m-odd bits of paper, and with your handwritten cross rubbing up against your neighbour’s and all counting equally (at least,up to a point) will start. By this time tomorrow we will have a original government – although, if the polls are just, and it will be the same as the broken-down one,just with a fresh mandate.It is an election that was called unexpectedly and that has unfolded unexpectedly. If you can remember that far back, the first two weeks were marked by enervating tedium, and as Theresa May toured the country promising puny more than “strong and stable” leadership,and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour appeared helpless in the face of the Tory juggernaut. Then three things happened that make this election unprecedented in contemporary times. Related: General election 2017 live: polls present Tory lead as final hours of voting catch under way Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com