Will you stay up to watch the Election 2026 coverage (on BBC1 from 11PM and Sky News from Midnight)?

Love election nights and did the count for the last general election. I like in a safe Conservative ward and voted Labour, so I doubt my vote made an ounce of difference. I’m in a London council that’s likely to change hands so definitely interesting but won’t wait up!

He stood as an independent. Unfortunately, he won.

I only stay up for general elections and only managed 5pm to see Jeremy Hunt was practically the only tory left standing.

I have three kids with SEN so you can guess who I vote for. Everything else in life means Jack shit if your kids don't have a shot at education, and avoiding a life where you can't live independently. I live in a lovely idilic little greenbelt village. But I'm worried about my kids future. Everyone has voted and nothing can change the results now.

I'm really surprised to hear so many people voting green after all of the recent hoo ha with ZP. Is it because it's local not general?
I voted labour not really for the party but because my local labour councillor has been in post for some time and is great, really visible, lives in the community, understands local issues.

I generally live in a Tory area but last GE both local MPs went red for the first time in decades. I don't know who is blue for in a GE at this point.

I'm staying up for a while - I love election coverage, even if it's all just hot air tonight until the actual results start coming through...
I live in a very right wing area, really hoping that Reform don't get in. This time, there wasn't even a Labour candidate on the ballot paper! I went Lib Dem as couldn't quite bring myself to vote tory to keep Reform out.

My local elections are next year but I already wonder if I might have to do that. My constituency was once described by an independent candidate as somewhere the Tories could send a donkey and it would get in - this was true at the time, but that was before the rise of Reform. (Saying that, the one next to me used to be the same, but elected its first Green MP last time).

Since I would rather vote for the donkey than for Reform, it might reluctantly be Tory for me in the general when it comes around. Hopefully, the local independents will do well in my locals next year because they have done before ( I have an independent right now) and they're a preferable option.

I won't be staying up a) because I don't have an election here and b) I don't particularly want to watch Farage's smug face all night, thank you very much. I tend to watch a bit of the general coverage at night when that comes around but not all of it.

No, the only result I'm interested in is our ward as ds is the Green Party candidate & the country isn't until tomorrow.

I haven't watched EastEnders since I moved out of my parents' house 16 years ago, Ian Beale! Which party is he standing for or is he independent? I thought the actor was living in a van or something and not on EastEnders anymore, pleased he's back

I voted Lib Dem’s in our area ,polling stations very busy. Am 🙏that the huge turnout was to override Reform winning! Definitely not staying up to see the results.

Same! But we’ve set up a TV in the office so we can watch along tomorrow and will open a few beers when it starts to get interesting around 3pm 😁

Feels very weird in Scotland with the count not happening until tomorrow and no exit polls!

Feeling weirdly anxious about it but nothing to be done but sleep and wait!

(Interestingly, the news tonight seemed to be trailing “record low turn out” in Scotland but this doesn’t tally with what we’ve seen on the ground in the constituency at all so… 🤷🏻‍♀️)

I’ll be staying up for a bit but not looking forward to our results. Think we might turn Reform if the revolting flags that have decorated our town for the last year or so mean anything. Quite a few Reform posters about here too.
Our count is happening overnight, my in-laws are there now watching, I sometimes go with them but not this year.
I’m working tomorrow, will probably nod off around 2, our results are usually declared around then.
I’m really hoping I’m very wrong about my prediction.

I would have voted Green, always voted Labour previously - but we have no elections here.

I suppose they'd only have rolling news on during the night normally.

Wales and Scotland results are not until tomorrow afternoon/evening

I’m not staying up, would if the neighbouring council areas were counting over night. But results not due until at least midday.
We didn’t have local elections but the two bordering me do. So I am interested.
Feel a bit left out.

Green but I live in a traditionally Conservative safe seat so I am expecting it to go to reform 🥺 sadly the only candidate at the polling station I visited was the Reform candidate as well so if anyone was on the fence she may have swayed them.

My friend is a returning officer in an Outer London borough. He told me the count doesn't start until tomorrow.

Councils do have the responsibility for ensuring compliance with the law in their buildings though, so some of us want to know that they'll comply with the Supreme Court judgment from last year.

And my council passed a motion that TWAW and TMAM the other year (Labour). They shouldn't be wasting time on such nonsense.

A result is a result

And in some local wards, turnout is as low as 16%.