UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority

How did you vote in the 2015 General Election?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 67 20.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 152 45.4%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 15 4.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 23 6.9%

  • SNP

    Votes: 9 2.7%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • Independent

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Did not vote

    Votes: 43 12.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 9 2.7%
  • Total voters
    335
  • Poll closed .
Labour have won Houghton and Sunderland South.

That's 100% of the seats so far to Labour. Get in.
 
evra said:
It's done huge damage, the best gift from Scotland since Adam Smith.
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It hasn't at all, because even with every single Scottish seat Labour would still be a long way off.
 
Colin129 said:
How does such a lightweight politician end up in such a safe seat. Shouldn't it be someone on the shadow cabinet, a bit more heavyweight?
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She is quite fit tbf. One to keep your eye on.
 
I thought declaring first meant reaching a point where they could be mathematically certain of a winner - hadn't realized they meant they would count every single vote in 40 minutes. That's genuinely very impressive.

Why is there such a disparity between Sunderland and the 5am-6am constituencies?
 
All I want now is a Spanish referee to blow for time.
 
Pink Moon said:
The last 5 years with the rise of food banks, the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer. Best thing for the country?

Ignoring all that I don't understand how anybody could vote for a guy and a party which aims to repeal the hunting ban and then claim that it's a "sport". Football's a sport. Rugby's a sport. Snobs chasing a terrified animal and cheering and applauding as their hounds rip it to shreds is not a sport. I couldn't live with myself knowing I'd voted for that.
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Its fecking vile, thats what it is.
 
Raoul said:
He obviously doesn't do the polling himself. He weights a series of polls based on their perceived reliability and does his mathematician stuff to come up with a probability.
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Right, I know how it works. I've been following him since he wrote about baseball. But he did tons of stuff about the polling firms themselves. Off the top of my head, I remember Rasmussen generally overstates conservative votes and so on. But has he done that research to the same extent in the UK is what I'm asking.
 
That exit poll is pretty much what I was predicting this morning. A complete bloodbath for the LibDems and Tories doing well. Pretty sure that's how it's going to pan out. LibDems losing their deposit in Sunderland... Jesus.
 
naturalized said:
I thought declaring first meant reaching a point where they could be mathematically certain of a winner - hadn't realized they meant they would count every single vote in 40 minutes. That's genuinely very impressive.

Why is there such a disparity between Sunderland and the 5am-6am constituencies?
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They always declare first, don't remember how but they're set up with lots of volunteers powering through the counting.

...not sure I'd want my votes counted like that, mind.
 
Mockney said:
If you dont learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Or, you know, some profound bollocks that'll make my argument seem sensical.

The night is always darkest just before the dawn.

That's another one.
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You've got Sunderland by fielding a hottie. From small acorns mighty oaks grow.
 
Eboue said:
Right, I know how it works. I've been following him since he wrote about baseball. But he did tons of stuff about the polling firms themselves. Off the top of my head, I remember Rasmussen generally overstates conservative votes and so on. But has he done that research to the same extent in the UK is what I'm asking.
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He did some stuff but nowhere near as much obviously as in the US. Election Forecast was the one he was teaming up with I think who did the Newsnight projection, which was predicting something a fair bit different.
 
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