2024 General Election Thread

[Tredman]

Tories still got double the votes of anyone else down here, though Lib Dem and labour together would have beaten them. Still annoyingly blue all around me

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I hope Farage isn't expecting too many questions at PMQs.
Cons will get the usual opposition number
Lib Dems now guaranteed a couple of questions a week
SNP will take the Ed Davey slot of 1 question

Everyone else is in a bun fight to get a question once in a blue moon. Greens and Plaid have just as much of a mandate for a question as frog features does. The DUP has more of a mandate. As would Sinn Fein if they sat in the House (which of course will never happen)

 

[Tredman]

 

[jd1981]

Looking at the numbers in the Wrekin Mr Pritchard scraped it by 800 votes over labour should be a huge wake up call to the tories here.

 

[jlo]

Poole, Labour win after two recounts, by 18 votes.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The whole country should be a huge wake up call for the Conservative Party.

There are two ways you can look at it. You can think like a Nicky Morgan or Justine Greening and state that elections are won at the centre and head back there. That is a credible idea.

Or you go down the Braverman and Badenoch route and leap even further right to try and hoover up Reform votes and fuck the centre. That absolutely won't work

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809114406871007410

 

[AndyWolves]

Does anyone know when the age profiles of who voted for what get released? I think that data will be very interesting.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Probably a few days

 

[Sniffer]

Missed it last night but the sister of Jo Cox lost her Batley seat to an Independent candidate campaigning on a pro Palestinian platform.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

While I am pleased that my constituency has gone back to Labour, it is depressing how many of the neanderthals around here voted for Reform. Labour got 11,000 votes and Tories/Reform both got 8,000 votes each.

Thankfully nobody has even mentioned the election at work. I dread to think how many of them voted Reform.

Anyway. FUCK. THE. TORIES.

 

[Lycan]

23,975 LAB
11,563 CON
5,154 REF
4,471 GRN
3,881 LD

In Warwick & Leamington. Depressing how many votes for Reform but pleased with a +6.2% swing for Greens. Only a 65% turnout though which is way down on other years.

 

[AndyWolves]

Sutton Coldfield results, i don't understand the Reform vote here.

1. Conservative,Andrew Mitchell​

   • Votes 18,502
   • Share 38.3%
   • Share change -22.1

2. Labour,Rob Pocock​

   • Votes 15,959
   • Share 33.0%
   • Share change +9.4

3. Reform UK,Mark Hoath​

   • Votes 8,213
   • Share 17.0%
   • Share change +17.0

4. Liberal Democrat,John Sweeney​

   • Votes 2,587
   • Share 5.4%
   • Share change -6.8

5. Green,Ben Auton​

   • Votes 2,419
   • Share 5.0%
   • Share change +1.1

6. Workers Party of Britain,Wajad Burkey​

   • Votes 653
   • Share 1.4%
   • Share change +1.4

 

[Del Woppio]

The reform vote seems surprising, it's a big number. But if you put it in the context of your human interactions, it's pretty comfortable that 2-3 of every 10 people you encounter are thick as shit racists.

 

[Del Woppio]

Will Rishi make an umbrella joke?

 

[Johnny75]

The reform vote seems surprising, it's a big number. But if you put it in the context of your human interactions, it's pretty comfortable that 2-3 of every 10 people you encounter are thick as shit racists.

15% of the vote. 1 in 10 voters are racist twats.

 

[Walshes Wolves]

 

[Walshes Wolves]

Just as well we don't have PR in the UK.

 

[AndyWolves]

Glad as i am that we don't have PR, it doesn't really feel like we're doing democracy right

 

[Walshes Wolves]

15% of the vote. 1 in 10 voters are racist twats.

Worse than that, for every 2.37 Labour voters, there is 1 Reform voter. I think the Greens had a great night.