A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote.
As well as the general election, there are more than 9,000 council seats being contested across 279 English local authorities.
Mayors will also be elected in Bedford, Copeland, Leicester, Mansfield, Middlesbrough and Torbay.
Polling roundup here.
Update. Well so much for that “polling roundup”.
Never mind the precise numbers. Don’t worry about the arithmetic of adding up coalitions and reaching a majority. If the exit poll numbers are right, David Cameron will be prime minister again, quite possibly without having to agree a new coalition or any other deal.
And Ed Miliband is finished. […]
Just as in 1992 when “shy Tories” refused to tell pollsters they were backing the party, but voted for John Major in droves, the exit poll suggests that all the conventional measures of public opinion have drastically underestimated support for the Conservatives. That will lead to something close to a nervous breakdown in the polling industry.
But that breakdown will be as nothing compared to the crisis that awaits Labour if these numbers are remotely correct. A total of 239 seats is utterly dismal for Labour, well below even expectations that were dampened by the SNP surge in Scotland. Mr Miliband’s many critics within the party will feel that all of their criticism has been cruelly vindicated. The Labour leader may hope to cling on, but his chances of survival are slim.
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Hoping UKIP does well. Less political correctness and more straight talk about actual issues.
David Cameron takes a lot of heat for being a poof, but he’s done pretty well as PM and the British Tories aren’t bad.
I can see the attraction of UKIP, but it would be a shame to elect Labour as a result of vote splitting.
(I write this from Alberta……)
Polling has now closed. Counting hasn’t started, but look for results here: http://www.bbc.com/news/election/2015/results
There is bugger all Conservative about Cameron and most of the “conservatives” difference between them and Labour et, al not a lot, still a race to the bottom.
I voted tonight for UKIP in what has all my life been a solid conservative seat, the majority has declined year on year particularly since the present incumbent was parachuted in by central office three elections ago, he wouldn’t understand a conservative idea if it got up and smacked him around the head. In the last month I have been back in the UK most all the people I spoke too complained that they are disenfranchised, no one, but no one represents them. Frighteningly my neighbours son who is eligible to vote for the first time came back from school today and said that almost all those old enough to have a vote at his school were going to vote based on the tosser Brand, (one of the Biased Broadcastings luvvies) having told them to vote labour, thats the youth vote.
Fortunately neighbours son has had some more balanced advice in his short life, an introduction to some of the more robust ideas and discussions to which our SDA has contributed as well as a few other sites, I’ve enjoyed been told his teachers in “economics” were not too impressed by his questions about why only Keynesian economics were being discussed and nothing about the Austrian school (thanks to Captain for some good discussion articles he had read), similarly thanks to Anthony at WUWT his teachers in “science” have told him he has to stop reading and talking about extremist rubbish, uphs, he understands now that education in the UK is not education but indoctrination.
So in response to oa515 above and yes maybe CT also, to para-phrase another parasite on another continent “at this point it makes no damn difference who gets the vote today in the UK “. I wish it did but really its just prolonging the agonies and allowing those that created the mess to insulate themselves and in the worse case to escape what should be the consequences of their decisions.
It looks like the Brits don’t release results until the whole constituency is counted unlike Canada where the results are released poll by poll.
If I was in Britain, I’d vote UKIP. But the bench is pretty thin in that party. They are not ready for real political power. If they do well this election, and attract stronger candidates next time, maybe they can take another step forward.
Looking at the results so far, I see the Monster Raving Loony Party has 358 votes so far.
We need to bring the Rhinoceros party back from the grave.
A close election guarantees the media sucks all the money possible out of the candidates. Happens every time.
Looks as if the odious Galloway might be out.
This will help us, quite a lot, actually.
The Conservatives have taken Bath;
whilst it is “Clegg, Clegg, Clegg” down the drain for the Liberal Democrats.
Meanwhile, stumbling Ed has been shellacked and is ‘Labouring’ mightily.
The Moses and the stone tablet gambit didn’t go over so well…
Reminded me of Mel Brooks send up in the History of the World spoof:
15 Commandments Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-WdAwVg9c
Of course that clip fits right in with more government regulation…
God only needed 10 commandments but Labour needs about 20!!
At this juncture the count is 298 Cons, 220 Labour with 44 seats uncounted; so it looks like Dave ‘Comeback’ Cameron may track to a majority.
This might just make Cameron’s VE-Day a little more special.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Galloway gone. Ed “windmills” Davey gone.
I detest Cameron but tonight’s result was not bad.
As I write Nigel is on the balance. Let’s hope he wins.
66% turnout.
I’m not sure how it will bode short term, long term my thoughts are the same, they are screwed, as the drain of small businesses continues, entrepreneurs become legislated out of existence and any young person that can think leaves, the cesspool grows
The malingering boil that is Scotland will still not be lanced the grievance industry is the only show in the town called the UK.
Cameron and his party are not the ones to effect any cure, its just try to maintain some sort of imagined status quo, which is why they ended up where they are.
Any truth to the rumor that George Galloway, after being defeated last night, is on his way to Alberta to become Rachel Notleys finance minister and special advisor to the oil sands?
Its a bit of a different system. All the ballot boxes get taken to a central location and get counted in one place.
They will count and recount in the same night and once the winner is announced by the local council its official. They don’t have unofficial results like we do here with the returning officer announcement week or so later.
Anywho I see the Conservatives have a majority and all the other major party leaders are Jim Prenticing out the door.
While the Conservatives are better than Labour and the LD’s, Britain is still screwed and they need to reign in the Muslims. Hopefully the new majority government can move a bit to the right and actually do something useful. Its also nice to see the majority so that arrogant SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon who wanted to form a coalition of losers to block the Conservatives get relegated to the back benches.
This also reminds me a lot of the 2011 election that gave the Conservatives here a majority and put the media party in its place.
I guess someone forgot to explain to the UK Liberals that Islam vote’s conservative, and Cameron has also been letting millions of them in on Liberal demands. Who’s the political dummy’s now?
Cameron is a globalist shill; he’ll sell off your country and give your taxes as Jizya to any deadbeat Muslim that wants too laze around the UK on taxpayer pounds, as long as they vote Conservative.
The stupid Liberal left will cut off their own noses despite their face every time.