The Result

[RedToothBrush]

Exit poll in 5 mins.

Pull up a chair.

Aren't there usually some remote constituencies which take a day or two, e.g. where they'e got to row the voting boxes across from some of the smaller islands?

The whole tory UKIP vote combined there for reform

Couldn’t agree more with every sentence of this post ^^

It’s great isn’t it!

Devastated I have to go to bed as I must be in work by 7. I just want to watch the results come in...

Not sure Reform can be fully thanked for this - even if you add the voting % intentions up between Con and Ref it's still been consistently lower than % of people intending to vote Labour.

What would be the solution in your town do you think? Investment to create employment?

12 thousand for Reform in Sunderland. If it wasn’t for Reform it could have been a different result altogether. And also, how many people who voted Reform would admit to it at an exit poll?

Sunderland South has been very close to the Tories and UKIP recently

Turnout in Sunderland South in 2019 was 56%
Turnover this year is 51%

2019
Labour Bridget Phillipson 16,210 40.7%
Conservative Christopher Howarth 13,095 32.9%
Brexit Party Kevin Yuill 6,165 15.5%
Liberal Democrats Paul Edgeworth 2,319 5.8%
Green Richard Bradley 1,125 2.8%
UKIP Richard Elvin 897 2.3%

2024
Green Richard Bradley 1723
Conservative Chris Burnicle 5514
Liberal Democrats Paul Edgeworth 2290
Labour Bridget Phillipson 18837
Reform UK Sam Woods-Brass 11668
(Not got the percentages up yet)

The story of the night is Reform not votes for Labour.

Any Labour supporter celebrating tonight needs to take a long hard look over their shoulder.

No, it’s a swing from labour to reform, you can still have a swing in a held seat, a swing just means the share of the vote has moved vs last time.

@PrincessTeaSet its modern slavery- they get a visa and in return get to work in a broken system with shit pay and awful working conditions.

That’s not the expected result.

Based on the exit poll Labour has 36%, Conservatives 25% and Reform 17%

Basically a swap of the Con/Reform (Brexit Party) vote from 2019.

Labour won more votes this year than in 2019 though, the swing is from the Tories to Reform.

Exactly. FPTP can obscure the underlying picture if you just look at who won the seat.

Seats matter, but so does the broader picture.

I understand people wanting the Tories out, but my god, if you think life under a labour government is going to be any better…. wake up!

I’ve been debating about whether to move to Australia / NZ for a couple of years now. I think now I’ve made my mind up. I am getting out of this country!

Ah I see, thank you! Apologies @TarantinoIsAMisogynist

No, its a swing from Tory to Reform. Labour votes pretty much the same.

No, Labour won more votes this time round, the Tories lost more and Reform won significantly more that the Tories. The change in votes is Tories to Reform.

I'm off for a nap, see you all around 3am!

All of them! I have a link to this area. People aren't shy about expressing their views there!

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

This reminds me of Brexit. My partner at the time was from a mining town in Wales and I couldn’t understand why they voted for Leave when the area benefited so much from EU grants

He said the same as you. People have seen so much be decimated that they voted for change as they felt that voting Remain would mean more of the same. His family really believed what they were fed and were expecting great things.

Exactly. The Reform vote in Sunderland has taken votes from the Tories and not from Labour.