To ask your election night plans (if any)

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Thinking of a chippy tea with some fruit ciders, switching to wine as the night goes on. I’ll be parked in front of the TV until I fall asleep, probably. DP will join but will go to bed normal time he says.

I'm with you on this one, she's my MP currently, although we're having a boundary change so I don't know what's happening with that.

Rest assured I've never voted for her and it was a sad day when Ed Balls lost his seat to her. Baffling how people round here vote Tory, they certainly don't have the best interests of this area and its people at heart.

But on the election night I'll probably go to bed as normal and see what's happened when I get up.

We are going on holiday the next day so it will be eating whats left in the fridge and an early night! Looking forward to the drive next day listening to the results

At 10pm pollsters will announce the winner - based on their very accurate exit polls, but it's not official of course until the counting is over.

I'll have wine and snacks until midnight, then coffee.

After all those 12-hour night shifts over the years staying awake isn't a problem!

That's very interesting. I think the boundaries have moved recently to take in Havant which have always voted a little more central than Fareham. Definitely one to watch, thanks for sharing.

We are camping, but will take champagne with us and try our hardest to stay up / awake

I have the day off on the 4th and the 5th. I will having a party with friends on the night and will be staying up to the early hours with election night bingo cards, prosecco and cans of red bull. I have bunting & balloons - I cant wait!

My husband is out with a work thing, I'll take an occasional glance at the news

@Cheguevarahamster that sounds lovely

I'm planning a power nap between 9 and 11.30, then up with snacks and wine the rest of the night. I've requested the 5th off, haven't heard back yet though.

I bloody hope not.

Everyone I know is voting Labour, we’re a mix of opinions but ultimately don’t want to split the vote and just want to GTTO

Can't imagine why women are welcoming a party that will erase our rights with self identifying women policies. Turkeys for Christmas spring to mind.

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

?? Is this a thing?

Usually bed early and wake up 6ish for results

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

Maybe it’ll be a conservative/reform coalition

I don't think so, somehow.

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.