To ask your election night plans (if any)

My goodness , if I was on a safari I most definitely wouldn’t be bothered about an election!

I will be at work in my maternity ward.
Celebrating that better times are coming to all of us and the NHS.

Nothing, absolutely nothing can be worse than the shower of sheisters we are governed by right now.

Will be celebrating with colleagues and babies for an improved life ahead.

My thoughts precisely.
I shall go to yoga, eat dinner watch Bridgerton ( I’ve started again from the beginning! ) and go to bed .

I'll be staying up all night, but I'll be having to work like crazy Wednesday and Thursday to skive on Friday so I'll be needing a nap too.

I plan to do some research into roughly what time some of the seats I definitely don't want to miss will get called, but I love it all and have been staying up since the swingometer days. Am also planning snacks already (no alcohol but definitely rocky road, Monster Munch or possibly Chipsticks, and sausage and fried egg rolls for the end of the night 😊)

Really enjoying everyone’s excitement and food and drink ideas! Great thread OP. I’m not at all excited about Labour winning but I do relish democracy a great deal.

It’s my birthday and I’m on holiday - safari!!! So not sure what election news we can access. As it’s probably a done deal, the lions could be more interesting.

I’ll have to work the next day (teacher) so can’t stay up all night but will have the radio on & be dozing. Waking dh up occasionally to give him important updates!

Reckon I'm gonna party like it's 1997! Family coming over for pizza and beers. Got to do a school run in the morning sadly, so the pp's idea of a power nap after the exit poll sounds smart but I might not be able to tear myself away once the TV coverage sets in. Hoping for some Portillo moments but tbh I'd settle for just jettisoning my own awful MP!

DD1 home from Uni (politics and IR student!) I don't work Fridays

So Fizz on ice, margaritas to start with, take away and a 4-5am finish - looking forward to it.

1st of May this year my ex sent me a text 'what were you doing 27 years ago ' I think I replied - 'drunk and happy and it may have been our first kiss' - happy memories of 1997 = hopefully happy memories of 2024!

Don't forget to leave mince pies out for John Curtice!

Labour do seem a bit lacklustre this time

I’ll be counting votes. I’ve done it before, but this will be my first General Election. It’s going to be a long night. However, there’s always a buzz in the room and this time it’s going to be electric.

My pet peeve is the candidates and their agents breathing down the counters’ necks - they shouldn’t stand within arm’s length IMO. Also, it’s hard to get a sense of the big picture when focusing on a local count. But overall, I love it!

Waiting for confirmation that I'm counting the ballot papers

Go to sleep, wake up, look blearily at the news.

Afraid I can't get too excited. I will be glad to see the back of the Tories but remain sceptical about Labour under Keir.

You never know. Electoral Calculus predicts a very, very, very narrow Labour win. Fingers crossed 🤞https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/calcwork23.py?seat=Fareham%20and%20Waterlooville

An early night for me. I have very little interest in the outcome this time round as both parties are pretty dire and are just randomly churning out ill thought out half arsed pledges in the vague hope of winning voters. I've never known such a poor choice.

I am flying to the UK to vote as have just got my vote back after being unable to vote for many years.

Will stay up all night.

I had a newborn in 2015 & being up watching the election coverage is a vivid memory

I'm.going to.have to work on the Friday which is a bummer. I'd hoped to.take the day off but can't.

I'll stay up as long as I can. Might try to sleep 9 -1am but then will miss the exit poll. I coukdnt stay awake last time (DS1 was a baby and i was shattered) so missed Portillo. I'm determined not to do the same this time. At least I'm WFH on the Friday and can maybe nap at lunchtime

Braverman won't get out, she's in a ridiculously safe seat. The locals almost wet themselves with excitement when she was doing her Rwanda plan thingy.

I will have a Power Nap at 9 ish and then get up 1130ish to watch the coverage. Have not seen the TV channels line up yet. I normally stick with the beeb, I think Huw Edwards was the main man last time 😉. It’s Jeremy Vine that now does all the stats, he is pretty good.

I do agree and I will be out campaigning! I think I'm just feeling a little flat at the moment and missing my optimism.

Is tory meant to mean toerag ?

I'll be away along with lots of other Scottish people as it's the first full week of the school summer holidays.
Deliberate move on the part of the pint sized loser and his tax dodging friends. Never trust a Tory.

I work in elections so, amongst other things, ensuring the last of the postals are verified, receiving the ballot boxes in, verifying the unused ballot papers, moving onto the count room and praying the numbers add up!