Boat Drinks Virtual Election

[Knipples]

My vote wasn't able to stop Liam Fox retaining his nice comfy safe seat, although I cant remember it being this narrow for ages. He usually wins by a landslide, this time it was less than 7,000 votes, and the Lib Dem bloke I voted for was second.

Just watching the local news, and most of the area (south west) now is conservative.

[Lopez]

Conservatives take my constituency with a whopping 12% Lab->Con swing.

Andrew Bridgen Conservative 23,147 44.6 +8.6
Ross Willmott Labour 15,636 30.1 -15.4
Paul Reynolds Liberal Democrat 8,639 16.6 +4.6
Ian Meller British National Party 3,396 6.5 +3.4
Martin Green UK Independence Party 1,134 2.2 -1.1

Majority 7,511 14.5 %
Turnout 51,952 72.9 % +6.1%

Good turnout as well!

Historical results here

[Will]

Originally Posted by Matblack

Cons hold Maidstone with a big shift toward the LDs

The lack of LD seats is not a suprise as far as I am concerned they have had a big increase in votes in some places but the FPtP system stuffs them, it's another reason to continue the fight for PR.

The LDs will have a hand in the new government and that will increase their profile for the next election which is fine by me

baby steps

MB

Good point.

Conservative 282 88 2 +86 9,717,981 36.5 +3.9
Labour 227 2 81 -79 7,628,286 28.6 -6.5
Liberal Democrat 48 5 12 -7 6,076,836 22.8 +1.0

The votes aren't too far apart with labour - just a shame so many idiots still vote for labour.

Tessa ****ing Jowell is still our MP by 10,000 votes over LD. YOU ****ING IDIOTS. I'm going to burn all the council estates down, and shoot poor people.*



* - obviously I'm kidding

[Jonny69]

Still not counted Lewisham West and Penge. ****ing lazy bunch of wasters. I'm really annoyed at being part of this borough

[Mark]

Oh my, what a mess to wake up to (meant to stay awake, but failed). This is going to take some sorting.

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Matblack

The lack of LD seats is not a suprise as far as I am concerned they have had a big increase in votes in some places but the FPtP system stuffs them, it's another reason to continue the fight for PR.

I agree with this wholeheartedly.

From results so far, looks like LD will have about 23% of total votes cast and only about 8% of the seats in the commons. How anyone can call that democracy is beyond me.

Originally Posted by Matblack

The LDs will have a hand in the new government and that will increase their profile for the next election which is fine by me
MB

I wouldn't bank on that Matt.
According to my calculations, the Tories may be able to do it without the LDs. The DUP will almost certainly throw their hat in with the tories, giving them another 8 votes. The SNP and Plaid Cymru have both stated they will not be part of any coalition so they can be seen as neutral. Sinn Fein can't vote because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen so their votes can be discounted. Not sure how the other minorities will go but if we assume they are also neutral, my calculations are as follows:

If we discount the neutrals and Sinn Fein, we are left with 634 seats which would mean a coalition would need 317 seats to have a chance of succeeding. If we assume the DUP will go with the Tories, this would leave them needing only 309 seats to claim a virtual majority. This means they only need to win 22 out the remaining 45. Sadly, I think this is entirely possible given how things have gone so far. If the Tories can possibly do without the LDs, they will avoid them in case they're forced to make concessions they're uncomfortable with (e.g. PR taking away their unfair advantage in an election).

Obviously, the above is speculation on my part and is me playing Devil's advocate. I would dearly love for the LDs to have a say in the new parliament and, at the very least, force a referendum on some system of PR.

I sincerely hope my prediction above proves to be wrong. I remember only too well what it was like, both as a student and a low paid member of the working class, under the last Tory government and I would hate for others to have to experience that.

[Jonny69]

Still no result here. Why don't they pull their lazy unemployed ambitionless thumbs out their arses, get out of bed for once, stop stabbing teenagers in chicken shops and count some ****ing ballot papers

[Pebs]

What are you trying to say Jonny?? Lol!

[Jonny69]

Bah, they all voted Labour again, bunch of uneducated scrounging lowlifes, so there will be no changes made in these areas:



Really bad news for my area now the boundaries have changed. Roll on the crime wave, teenage stabbings, oh wait there was one just yesterday , graffiti etc etc.

[Will]

I share the same sentiments Jonny.