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Conservatives Crush Labour in UK Landslide (w/ Updates)
Polls in the UK closed at 10 p.m. local time (5 p.m. ET). As results come in from the crucial vote, we’ll keep you posted here. If the exit polls are correct, this will be the worst Labour Party result since 1924.
6:37 p.m. (ET): Only three ridings have reported their votes, all of which have been strong Labour supporters. One of these, Blyth Valley, has switched to the Conservatives. This indicates a surprisingly strong CON showing elsewhere.
7:35 p.m. (ET): Votes coming in very slowly. So far, CON has two seats, LAB has five.
8:34 p.m. (ET): The Scottish National Party gets one on the board. The totals so far…
- CON – 8
- LAB – 11
- SNP – 1
The Tories have so far swung three constituencies from Labour to Conservative. One of those was Workington, a “quintessential safe Labour seat.” The SNP also took a seat from Labour.
9:02 p.m. (ET): Updated totals…
- CON – 20
- LAB – 22
- SNP – 3
Labour has lost five seats to CON and two seats to SNP.
9:30 p.m. (ET): Conservatives tie it up.
- CON – 90
- LAB – 78
- SNP – 16
- SF – 4
- LD – 3
- Other – 4
Labour down eight seats, Conservatives up six.
10:00 p.m. (ET): And Conservatives take the lead.
- CON – 45
- LAB – 45
- SNP – 6
- PC – 1
- Other – 3
Labour down 21 seats, Conservatives up 17.
Our projections now put Tories at slightly smaller majority, but still very solid indeed – 357 seats, Labour on 201
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 13, 2019
10:30 p.m. (ET):
- CON – 156
- LAB – 109
- SNP – 21
- LD – 6
- DUP – 5
- Other – 10
BREAKING: Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is to resign and will not lead the party into a future general election. pic.twitter.com/oJbfBrmjKl
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 13, 2019
11:00 p.m. (ET): Conservatives need 326 seats to win, the BBC now projects they will take 365. Here’s where the vote stands now:
- CON – 214 (+32)
- LAB – 143 (-43)
- SNP – 34 (+11)
- LD – 7
- DUP – 5
- Other – 11
The Tories continue to take Labour strongholds, including some constituencies who haven’t voted Conservative for a century.
By our count Lab have now lost at least 15 seats which they have held in all general elections since 1945
— Rob Ford (@robfordmancs) December 13, 2019
11:30 p.m. (ET): Conservatives need 326 seats to win, the BBC now projects they will take 365. Here’s where the vote stands now:
- CON – 265 (+38)
- LAB – 180 (-50)
- SNP – 41 (+12)
- LD – 7 (-)
- DUP – 5 (-2)
- Other – 13
The Tories continue to take Labour strongholds, including some constituencies who haven’t voted Conservative for a century.
Sky News
UPDATED FORECAST:
CON Majority
Con seats 363-369 (midpoint 366).
LAB 193-199 (midpoint 196)
MAJORITY 76-88 (midpoint 82).*Labour would have worst result in seats since 1935.
*Con maj would be bigger than Blair in 2005 and Thatcher's in 1979— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) December 13, 2019
12:10 p.m. (ET): It is official! Conservatives needed 326 seats to control Parliament and they have them. BBC projects that they will win 365 total, but here’s where the vote stands now:
- CON – 331 (+43)
- LAB – 197 (-55)
- SNP – 45 (+12)
- LD – 8 (-)
- DUP – 8 (-2)
- Other – 14
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Did Brexit get zero because they all voted conservative as a strategy, or are they bailing on the Brexit party?
And now, will Boris follow through, or will he be like the republicans and find excuses not to do what the election was about?
Not sure if Boris will have the power to follow through, but he is smart enough, and willful enough to try.
I think Farage pulled out of any district with a conservative candidate committed to Johnson’s Brexit deal. The Brexit party basically cleared the path for the Torys as the best path to getting Brexit accomplished.
From The Atlantic:
All the conservative MPs have pledged to back his deal. Never say never, but all indications are that this will mean Brexit gets done, probably by January 31.
This is a huge win for Boris Johnson who is firmly committed to Brexit as soon as possible. There is no other way to view this victory. The BBC is saying this is the biggest Tory win since Margaret Thatcher. However, we need to remember the results we are seeing at this point are strictly from exit polls. No actual results have come in yet. Keep your fingers crossed.
This is the swing according to the exit polls:
Labour allowed itself to be infiltrated by the hard left and is paying the price. Simple as that.
Tory win? Are you saying the Tories are the Conservative Party? Wow, 35 years of confusion is erased. I always get so confused by Brit politics and that’s been why. I couldn’t understand why conservatives were always supporting the Tories.
Remember, this is a hand count. The UK still uses paper ballots and the real results won’t be known until about 6am (1am ET / 10 pm PT).
Pound Sterling is up on the exit poll.
One wonders if the DNC is following the results from across the pond and starting to have second thoughts about nominating a Sanders or Warren next year…
If I’m a dem and watching this I’m getting nervous. Of course I have the capacity for self-reflection and at least a modest amount of humility. Not sure what the actual dems are going to think.
I was thinking the same thing. The Brits are more liberal than we are in many ways, but it looks like reason is at last prevailing. Can we hope for the same thing here in 2020?
Fair point but Sanders and Warren are moderate compared to Corbyn.
For your edification: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30899534
Wait? You mean Alan Moore didn’t swing the vote to Labour?
Corbyn skates the line of being an outright traitor.
For what it is worth, while polling in both the US and the UK has taken a battering in recent election cycles, the exit polling here in the UK has been pretty accurate. My impression-from-afar is that those from the US have not…
So, if they are anywhere near the usual standard of correctness, socialism has had a real pasting tonight for which we can all be grateful.
Then again, if you were worried about capital flight you would want to rig the exit poll, but not even I am that paranoid.
Nice commie you got there…
Ha. That explains the reason AOC has endorsed him.
And Warren and Sanders are different how?
They think they know what’s best for everyone and that disagreement is heresy
I hope the USA follows this example and votes down whatever Commie the Dems nominate.
Corbyn has allowed antisemitism to flourish in his Party and has struck fear into the hearts of British Jews; has referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as his “friends”; has taken money from the Iranian propaganda Channel Press TV; has laid a wreath at a monument to people involved in the Munich Olympics massacre; has supported the IRA, Gadaffi and a myriad of other leftist despots; has economic policies that would make Maduro blush and has destroyed a once-noble Party and deprived the UK of a competitive Parliament for five years at least. I could go on.
I hope so.
Boris is the type who wants his place in history.
Getting the UK out of Brexit will make him at least on par with Thatcher.
Breaking his word will make him another Heath. Whos that? Yeah. Exactly.
Here is a UK general election results interactive map, refreshed every 15 minutes, you can toggle between 2017 results and the 2019 results as they come in.
Another at the Guardian. Yeah, I know, but it’s a good piece of work, and you can watch the Labourites cry on the related live-blog.
I know him, he’s the guy from the Beatles’ song: