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[Riz]

Tommy Sheridan is such an arse.

[suzie_j7]

He's really the only one I know and he's funny lol and kinda cute! I have odd taste!

[Behelzebub]

I've just voted in the Welsh Assembly Elections, my dad works for Wrexham council so he managed to get a postal vote sorted out for me. It's the first time I've actually voted 'cos we never had local elections in Wales last year. Go me.

Oh, and while I'm here, I'd just like to say that UKIP and the BNP are a bunch of ARSES. So there.

[Serin]

I sincerely hope Labour take a battering via this plebiscite.

I'm not voting for the Liberal Democrats in these parts as it's a Labour stronghold and they (Labour) have retained a sizeable majority of the votes for the past several decades and I don't see any notable differences on policy between either party. I would never vote for the Tories or any party on that side of the spectrum so it's an anti-Labour, left-wing independent candidate for me as a protest vote.

[Mike]

I hope the Lib Dems win in Newbury, Since the conservatives took over last year Nothing has happened in the town, wheras the lib dems were actually getting somewhere...

Labour can't win here either, there is no possible way, apparently

[dstrkzn]

Randomly there is no coverage of this election on and scottish channels.

How do exit polls work?

[Geezer7348]

Well I have made my vote count, I definately dont want Labour in charge of me anymore so my Allegiance lies elsewhere. Here's hoping Joke McConnell and his Stormtroopers get voted out of Scotland.

I predict SNP will keep their seat in Perth & Kinross.

[dstrkzn]

Wikipedia thing

That wikipedia page is about the scottish elections, it shows the targets and so on.

[Serin]

How do exit polls work?

They work by asking a sample of voters leaving the Polling Stations who they voted for and then using this sample a prediction is made of the overrall election result.

I think.

[Lucinda]

I actually voted last night. We had no idea if we were registered to vote, but some of my friends had postal votes for their home areas. My home Council wasn't involved yesterday. However, last night someone dumped a load of individually addressed polling cards on a table in our Hall and we found ours, discovered there was a polling station on Campus and went to vote. They really did keep it quiet - it took us about half an hour of wandering to find it, tucked in a corner somewhere. I don't reckon many people bothered.

None of us knew anything about any of the candidates, there was an independent running who actually lived on one of the Halls on campus, but we didn't know anything about him or his policies, so we all chose to vote on our party allegiances. I thought I should vote, as I'd been too young to do it before.

As far as I can tell, the Lib Dems held the ward.

[Mike]

I am hoping that the Lib Dems have taken Newbury back...

[Serin]

Mike you can type in your post code here to find out how the election went in your area:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/default.stm

[dstrkzn]

Scotland

So with 82 Seats declared [of 129]

Its really close between the SNP and Labour, with the SNP at 30 and Labour at 32.

The SNP seem to have taken the votes of the small Partys like the SSP/Solidarity

SNP up 15

Labour down 8

[Geezer7348]

C'mon the SNP, Get Labour out!

[dstrkzn]

well it does look like the snp might do it with the way the list votes are going, the SNP are getting most of them

[Geezer7348]

well it does look like the snp might do it with the way the list votes are going, the SNP are getting most of them

To be honest it wouldnt surprise me, Labour have run the country into the ground and its time we realised it

[dstrkzn]

The SNP have have held a further 2 seats, 32 each for SNP/Lab

[Geezer7348]

the SNP have held Perth, think that was always going to be the case as I predicted previously

[Jono]

An Independent and a Liberal Democrat has held their place in my town here.

[dstrkzn]

Labour have just gained Strathkelvin & Bearsden so they are now at 33 to the SNPs 32

also this is the first seat they have gained in this election, the snp havent lost a seat they held

[Jamie]

Conservative still in Sunny Southend...

[dstrkzn]

Alex Salmond BBC news 24 now!

[Mike]

Ugh great. Conservatives hold West Berkshire, and look like doing so for the forseeable future.

SEATS IN DETAIL

Party Previous +/- 2007

Conservative 27 9 36

Liberal Democrat 24 -8 16

Others 1 -1 0

[dstrkzn]

ok so the Alex Salmond speech was mainly this

Enquiry into the Voting problems

SNP are most voted for party, whether they win the most seats unclear

Labour are the losers of the Election

Inc Quote from Donald Dewer.

And it terms of the seat numbers

SNP 40 - LAB 39!

[dstrkzn]

Extremely Close in scotland[actually Even]

With 14 left its 42/42!