UK General Election '24 - Results Watch Thread

[Rick_1138]

I thought I would start a thread that's in readiness for any of us going to stay up through the night (or some of it anyway) to see how the election is going, from exit poll results to any big shocks that may come up.

I have several bottles of whisky on standby should the SNP properly fall over.

Could be a fun (if long) night.

[B'stard Child]

Good idea - often on election night there are several threads running and it's a job to keep up with them all

The danger is you are a smidge early starting it and it might be on page 13 by the time we get to election day/night

I wonder if the Moderation team would be so kind as to sticky it until the 5th of July??

I'll ask

[Hill92]

Estimated declaration times: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/estimated-declaration-ti...

[Kinky]

B'stard Child said:

I wonder if the Moderation team would be so kind as to sticky it until the 5th of July??

I'll ask

cough cough

[hidetheelephants]

Rick_1138 said:

I have several bottles of whisky on standby should the SNP properly fall over.

I'll be drinking to that. Bunch of oxygen thieves.

[Roderick Spode]

I've taken the Friday off work in expectation of a proper drubbing for the SNP, and the resultant cataclysmic hangover that will inevitably result. I will warmly toast every sitting MP they lose, then I'll drink commiserations to the UK at the tragic news of an incoming SirKeef Flipflop government. There will be no winners next Friday.

[B'stard Child]

Kinky said:

B'stard Child said:

I wonder if the Moderation team would be so kind as to sticky it until the 5th of July??

I'll ask

cough cough

Thank you kind sir - doffs forelock

[uk66fastback]

Election night is always a good one. Brexit night was another good one. Luckily cos this is in July it’ll be light outside by 4-5am and not blowing a gale like November would have been - so an all-round good night. The result is inevitable and there’ll be some ‘Portillo moments’ for sure …

Edited by uk66fastback on Friday 28th June 10:29

[Rick_1138]

Woo, sticky thread.

Looking at that link of announcement times. 2am could be fun with Dundee.

[Roderick Spode]

uk66fastback said:

The result is inevitable and there’ll be some ‘Portillo moments’ for sure …

Some of the recent polling has predicted that of the present serving cabinet, only two front benchers might survive. For the first time in many decades a serving Prime Minister is predicted to lose his seat. That would be the Portillo moment to top them all - I think we'd probably have to rename it in his honour.

[Catweazle]

I'm in.

[B'stard Child]

Rick_1138 said:

Woo, sticky thread.

You can thank Kinky for that - could be the first election in several years where I don't have to follow multiple threads

It gets very hard when you've had a few

[Mr Penguin]

I love a good election night but I'm getting a bit old to stay up all night and I have to work on Friday. I think the last one I managed to stay up for was Trump winning in 2016 - in 2019 I was asleep before midnight and 2020 USA was more election week than election night.

[Stussy]

I’ve had a fascination into staying up on election night ever since 98, when I was driving back through the night from a very long airport run. Listening to the results coming in was really interesting and I’ve been hooked ever since.
I’m annoyed I couldn’t get the Friday off work this time though, so it’s either stay up really late, or get up really early!

[valiant]

Pretty pointless watching from when the polling booths close but we should start seeing some fun from about 2am onwards. Got a six hour drive on Friday but I’ll be getting up early to see what surprises there have been.

[S600BSB]

This article has some timings - particularly if you are keen to see some Cons fall!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/...

[hidetheelephants]

valiant said:

Pretty pointless watching from when the polling booths close but we should start seeing some fun from about 2am onwards. Got a six hour drive on Friday but I’ll be getting up early to see what surprises there have been.

It's not completely pointless, there's usually a few blowhards making statements that they're retracting hours later; paddy ashdown, maybe 2015?, made some very rash comments to the mirth of commentators and the audience.

[P-Jay]

I've got a big day on Friday so I won't be up all night, but the exit polls are going to be interesting. Labour are going to win, that seems certain now, but will it really be a super majority? Also, will Reform 'do a UKIP', Win 10%-15% of the popular vote, but not win any seats?

Will any of the Tory big hitters like Hunt, JRM, even Boris or Mordaunt lose their seat?

Edited by P-Jay on Tuesday 2nd July 10:03

[oyster]

P-Jay said:

I've got a big day on Friday so I won't be up all night, but the exit polls are going to be interesting. Labour are going to win, that seems certain now, but will it really be a super majority? Also, will Reform 'do a UKIP', Win 10%-15% of the popular vote, but not win any seats?

Will any of the Tory big hitters like Hunt, JRM, even Boris?? or Mordaunt lose their seat?

Edited by P-Jay on Tuesday 2nd July 10:03

That would be some achievement.

[Truckosaurus]

P-Jay said:

....Labour are going to win, that seems certain now, but will it really be a super majority? ...

Indeed. I'm not planning on staying up too late for that very reason. See what the 'exit poll' estimate is, and see the first result announced and then go to bed and see if the news alert on my telephone announcing the finishing post being crossed wakes me up.