Westminstenders: Election Special

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Spreadsheet of declaration times from 2017 by constituency

sluggerotoole.com/2019/12/10/an-hour-by-hour-guide-to-election-night/
Key constituencies by declaration time to help you understand what might be going on

yougov.co.uk/uk-general-election-2019/
YouGov MRP

www.electionpolling.co.uk/battleground
List of seats by marginality and party targeting them

Dh says he thinks plenty of Tory MPs will still make Johnson's life difficult after tonight. #overhopeful.

Ach, you lot are luffly!
I am really sorry to do a personal blurt (I have done them before under my old username of StripeyChina, embarrassingly enough)
It was just Kafka-esque but didn't cry till I after I struggled out of the doors (the disabled auto-button thingy has been broken for 3 years!)

I have told my two kids, till they are bored silly, why it's so important to vote for those who you feel are most likely to treat all people with dignity, regardless of colour, religion, sex, ability or economic output.
I am in a better position than others I know - foodbank use has risen 400% in my town over the last 18m - there but for the grace of God

I have just opened a bar of chocolate. Ooops ;)

Alex Wickham@alexwickham
Tories still think Brexit Party will stop them from winning several Labour Leave seats

^Main Tory concern in last 24hrs has been that if majority is

I know! Let's have a general election every year! This time of year! Brilliant!

I think one of the most depressing things is that the moderates/centrists from both parties are gone/going.

That leaves the rabid momentim and erg types.

Fun times.

Anyone else got sweaty palms? 😓💦

I'm in a Tory/SNP constituency. I voted to avoid another independence referendum. In Scotland, we've had election uncertainty since 2011, and business (including mine) needs some semblance of certainty.

I've loved politics since I was 15, but havent been able to even think about it for the last six months. My 15 year old (left wing) self will never talk to me again

But real left wingers don't have to be rabid you know. I am very left wing and I don't think I am rabid...

obviously ERGers are still rabid

I'm left wing and not rabid. Centrists haven't helped themselves over the last 3 years.

Left wing myself but momentum have done huge damage to labour

I know! Let's have a general election every year! This time of year! Brilliant! tobee lol!!

I always thought I was pretty centrist, but am certainly more left than I ever was, as the right get right-er.

Tomorrow I know a few Scots who had similar dilemmas.

Family members included- I hope I managed to convince them I think BJ is the biggest threat to the union

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar
Half an hour until the polls close. 👀Do the Tories manage to penetrate the "red wall"? Labour suggesting Midlands and North East looking bad but that Yorkshire is holding up. All eyes on London which could hold balance.

How slow are these last few minutes going?

The media damage labour. Momentum have nothing to do with it.

Ds says someone on twitter asking when Gibbo is going to release the exit poll on group chat?

Settling in for the evening. Eyes on the clock.... 'the clock is ticking'...

Well at least the Red Devils are winning tonight!

Less than half an hour until the exit polls. Feeling jittery. Torn between hope and despair. I might just keep the hope going for a few hours, and save the despair for tomorrow!

Those House of Commons votes look like nothing in terms of on the nerves front. Nothing I tell ya!

Can't write English 😑

I'm supporting friend (who is having personal issues) & is a presiding officer at a poll station. I'm staying out of way in kitchen. It seems "steady" out there for sure!

A Lab government might actually be the best thing for the Union. Scots for once might feel there is a government that sympathises with their values at least and listens. For too long, Scotland has been shafted with Westminster governments who are ideologically diametrically opposed. and so it came to pass that the SNP grew and grew.