The more depressing thought is that a surprising number people looked at the last 14 years and thought, "ooh, more of that, please."
If those exits are accurate that's a shame, I expect it will be the usual cause of the yoof not voting enough and the elderly voting like their lives depended on it. Or it's a reflection of just how good at propaganda the Conservatives actually are.
Think some might be media reporting having a labour starmergeddon meaning a chunk well 'they've clearly got this, i don;t need to bother'... and thus depressing turnout... [plus voter ID shenanigans and postal votes not turning up]
Considering how much Labour has moved to the right the Tories won anyway, the recent rhetoric coming from Starmer is indistinguishable from the likes of Cameron and May.
Sunderland South win the 'first to declare' race... Only thing Sunderland ever win. Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date
As I thought, my consistency went/stayed Labour... Lotsa racists up here in particular. Was kipper central back in the day.
Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date EDIT: Turnout seems abysmal across the board. Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Some turds just wont flush
Closer-run thing than I was expecting, here. The Labour incumbent has always won by a landslide, but their share plummeted 44 percentage points(!) with an independent (running on an explicitly pro-Palestine platform, which could well explain it) picking up the lion's share. Only ~700 votes between 'em - I've never seen it so close! EDIT: And well done to the Reform voters¹, who have thrown half a million quid of public cash directly into Farridge's back pocket. And counting - there's more returns yet. 1: Sarcasm EDIT EDIT: Miscounted - Farridge is now a million pounds richer thanks to those results. That's your money and mine, people. That'll be in an offshore account before the first sitting of Parliament, you mark my words.
I assume your new MP is Jess Phillips, she was just on the beeb talking about how a win is a win, especially as the campaigning and personal attacks by some candidates was so unpleasant.
New MP for us, both Bournemouth wards are now Labour. Neighbouring Poole is having a recount as supposedly 6 votes separated the incumbent Tory and their Labour challenger. Elsewhere, I'm delighted to see JR-M lose his seat.
Ours is a new constituency, Lib Dems won! In our old constituency, the Tory was also beaten by the Lib Dems. Somerset was dominated by the Tories, now they have just one seat in the county.
