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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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I sure hope that Democrats learn a lesson from the UK.
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Labour Party lost the seat for Workington. They have held it since 1918.
It looks like the Brexit party is splitting Labour votes.
Watching the Sky News feed – for any UKers, what does “lost their deposit” mean?
It’s not just Corbyn.
I was listening to a young British woman last night say that the politician that disgusts her is the mayor of London. She said that the mayor isn’t even British and is basically the Head Terrorist as he said that London, surrending, now has to live with a certain amount of terrorism.
I think Corbyn’s various Shadow Cabinet members have been rather nuts too.
Yay! This is great news. It looks like the Conservatives over-performed. How much of this is due to a desire to see Brexit through and how much is due to how execrable Jeremy Corbyn is I don’t know.
I just saw a labour seat where the Brexit party got 10000 votes.
It’s on Pluto.tv as well.
Dianne Abbott showed up at her polling station this morning with mismatched shoes… both left, of course.
Labour MP: I dont understand how this is happening?
Me: Do you think it could be because you refused to implement the democratic will of the people?
Her: The what now?
Me: What about running a viscious anti-semite?
Her: Everyone knows Jews arent people!
Me: Does this massive loss mean your going to ditch Corbyn.
Her: Get rid of Dear Leader? Never!
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Yep. Been streaming since mid-afternoon. I’m loving listening to Labour pols’ discomfiture each time the Sky News announcer asks if Corbyn is responsible for the losses or if he should go.
Bercow, you [CoC], he’s explaining Con gains from Labour in the Northeast as a turn to identity politics away from traditional class divisions–as though cleaving to Remain says zero about working class losses from the disruptions wrought by economic globalization (which I’m mostly sympathetic to).
This losing labour women Ruth Smeeth is a straight out calling for Corbyn to resign because of his anti semite comments. “The labour party is being called the Nazi party. Jews need a safe space here, and they dont.”
And Tony Blairs former seat just went Tory.
Corbyn won his seat, but pledges not to lead Labour in its next election.
… Am somewhat worried BoJo won’t win his. Update: And hs Labour opponent wasn’t even close.
Sky is reporting Johnson kept his seat.
Boris Johnson: And I want to thank Lord Buckethead and Elmo and all my other fellow candidates…
Boris is safe, but the leader of the LibDems just lost hers.
And Jo Swinson goes down! To the SNP candidate.
@torywarwriter – what’s the story with SNP? Do you think Scotland will do another independence referendum? If that passed, would that mean Scotland becomes completely independent from the UK? Do they have an economy strong enough to support independence?
Lib Dem Leader just lost her seat to SNP.
So listening to Nicola Sturgeon, it seems like she thinks Scotland wants independence from UK so it can remain in the EU. Is that a correct impression? She really doesn’t like Boris Johnson or the Tories.
That’s the impression I got too (I’m American, so I’m willing to be corrected here.) The choice is between London and Brussels. Edinburgh isn’t even on the ballot.
Yeah, that was painful for her. Lost by just under 150 votes. Absolutely no sympathy for her and her party’s identity politics and bald (and bold) position simply to revoke the Brexit referendum result.
The SNP definitely wants another referendum. Whether it’ll get one or not isn’t clear.
Second best news of the night: Brexit will happen.
Best news of the night: Jeremy Corbyn consigned to the dustbin of history.
Kinda’ freaks me out that she’s leading a political party and she’s younger than I am. I feel old.
Sadly Scotland can’t stand on its own two feet nowadays, so the question is which sugar daddy will send it more presents.
Nicola Sturgeon is making the classic political blunder: she is mistaking dislike of her opponents as a mandate of her positions. Six days ago a YouGov poll showed independence losing 44-56%, or roughly where it was in 2014 when she got her vote the first time.