To ask your election night plans (if any)

I would LOVE that! Go!

Oh that was me when Obama won the US Presidency in 2008! My dd woke me up just in time for the speeches - happy days!

Was just going to sit up and watch it as long as I feel like doing so!

Have booked the next morning off work though

Due to give birth any day now so will have two reasons to stay up all night (or as much as I can manage)!

Hate Starmer but delighted at the prospect of getting the Tories out so will be a muted celebration, I guess.

I work in the Politics department of a Russell Group university. I'm toying with the idea of going to the all nighter with the staff (of whom at least one is a former MP) and any students we can convince to come as well. It offers the opportunity to get some real inside gossip and the chance of seeing some of our normally teetotal academics get a bit squiffy.

We will never know what Labour would have done though, do we? Last time I looked it was sending troops to die and be blown up in the Middle East! What a short memory you have.

Yes let’s just concentrate on getting rid of a government who sent the elderly straight from hospital wards back to care homes during the height of the pandemic thus causing the inevitable, awarded contracts to their mates supposedly for PPE that never existed but ensuring those mates increased their wealth by several millions, then partied whilst we were all separated from our families at Christmas. I’ve never known cunts like it. More fool you to anyone that fancies bending over for another shafting up the arse.

We are planning to stay up - I want to see the back of the Tories, even though, like @Birmingbacon, I am not convinced that Labour will be a wonderful replacement. Don’t get me wrong - I want them to be, and I hope that they will be, everything we need them to be, but the older I get, the more cynical and pessimistic I get about all politicians.

This.

Is there any way of blagging into the announcement?
Our local candidate has a fairly good chance and I'd love to be there for the results but I suspect that's not possible.

It's usually only election and party officials and observers, iirc. Each candidate will have their election agent there, they are permitted a certain number of observers, and it's usually their campaign team.

I had a party. There were approx 40 people crammed into my small house at one point, the last of them toddled off home at around 8.30 am. There were a few people round my way who plainly had a lot of people round. And lots of fireworks were going off once it was a clear Labour win.

Then around 9, I set off to Devon for the weekend. Thankfully, someone else was driving.

We'll have booze and a takeaway.

I'll plan to stay up all night and fail as always. I'll probably wake several times in the night and check the latest.

I've got the Friday off for sleep and news watching.

Is there any way of blagging into the announcement?
Our local candidate has a fairly good chance and I'd love to be there for the results but I suspect that's not possible.

Power nap around 10, set the alarm for 12.30, brew a pot of espresso to keep me awake for the rest of the night, open a bottle of champagne when Labour win the seat that gives them the overall majority, possibly let off a couple of fireworks in the garden (there will be a lot of that going on locally, if 1997 is anything to go by) and hope I can stay awake long enough to see Sunak resign and Starmer walk into number 10.

Maybe it’ll be a conservative/reform coalition

I don't think so, somehow.

Ooh I love staying up to watch the elections! Even watch the US ones too, I have no idea about US politics but election night is always worth a watch!

97 was epic. I was a student and we all piled round to the friend with the largest room, drank, added a little artificial staying up things, and laughed our arses off for hours. A memorable night.

Now I am old and sensible, it won't look anything like that.

Post exit polls, sleep, then up about 2 ish. Sofa in pjs until I lose the will to live. Dp is working so probably update him at 5 or so when he gets up. Return to bed for most of Friday daytime.

May include wine, cheese, mini cheddars, crumpets, fruit tea. And coffee if needed.

I remember my parents staying up on general election nights in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1979, I remember my mum waking us up for school and announcing, "well, she's got in" and thinking she was talking about the neighbour's cat, which used to break into our kitchen for scraps. 😂

As for the pp talking about self-ID: look, it's one teeny bit of legislative wasteland in the Labour offering compared with the vast uninhabitable steppes of desolation we've had, and would continue to have, from the Tories - and don't kid yourself that the Eton set or their hateful petit-bourgeois sidekicks have any great enthusiasm for women's rights either. Let's just for the love of god get the Tories out, support Labour in trying to rebuild the public sector, and bring the fight to them over self-ID and TRA ideology afterwards. Please.

You must be in my neck of the woods. I sometimes wonder why we don’t just declare labour as soon as voting finishes then get down to the technicality of the count after 😂, although the race to be first is always fun!

My husband LOVES elections. Loves them. Voting is DH’s favourite thing to do! So we have both booked the next day off work and plan to stay up as late as we can, with some wine to celebrate/drown our sorrows after the exit poll!

I'll be up and partying.🎉 This year DS1(17) will be staying up too. It's his first time.😁

I'll be drinking Aperol spritz and eating a fancy nut combo that my local offie sells.

Same. It’s the punishment that I’m looking forward to

Yes, for those of us interested in politics. Have been doing it since 1992.

This time, like 1997, a lot of people who aren't even hugely political will be staying up to watch the Tories get screwed

?? Is this a thing?

Usually bed early and wake up 6ish for results

Will quite possibly be in labour. Hard to say what will be more painful - transition, or labour getting in 🤣