** Official MN Election Night Thread - let's hold hands and wait together **

[MmeLindt]

Just starting this so that we can all post our thoughts throughout the day.

My wish for today is that as many people as possible GO OUT AND VOTE.

I cannot vote as I have been living abroad for over 15 years so if anyone wants to vote for me, I would like to vote for Gordon Brown. Voting by MN proxy

Thought Paxman's question to Lempit Opik was a bit in appropriate.. he is really losing it in my view. Lempit handled it well though..

OOO thanks

0404The Times highlights one of the night's firsts: "At a stroke, Britain now has its first two Asian female MPs."

Stick that up your beep beep beep BNP

I am very suprised at the labour support, I really thought they would be coming up third.

has the bnp got any seats yet?

Oops x-post I meant "stick that up your...."

Look at these figures so far though

Con - 159 seats 5,300,917 votes (35.8%)
Lab - 123 seats 4,020,087 votes (27,2%)
Lib - 23 seats 3,283,554 votes (22.1%)

that's what's bloody wrong with our voting - just 800,000 votes makes the difference of 100 seats

No seats ASLD

no, no bnp seats yet, thank goodness.

think all the bbc announcers are losing the plot...

This is so interesting - and poor Jeremy Vine and his swingometer are almost obselete because the results are so variable.

No, thank god lemonade

tolalola they are definitely going a bit loopy! It's really odd, I'm getting tired so keep doing a double take when they say something strange!

Really wrong IMO toccata !

I am going to be a Zombie in the morning...........I don't care - I'll live........and you never know I may actually sleep really well tomorrow (or should that be tonight?)

TAF - agree it is just awful that the seats don't translate AT ALL out of votes for Lib Dem.

I am in favour of moving to larger constituancies (sp - I know) and then making up another chunk of the house with MPs from a party list voted for under a PR system. It would redress the balance significantly while still checking the rise of parties like the BNP.

Good grief the birds have started singing outside!

SHADUUUUUUP !

Got MIL coming over sometime later today.. oh god.. kill me now!

lib dem vote is now up 1.2% though....

i can't believe it's tomorrow already with NO discernible result

Does th BNP curernetly have seats? Or did they win something to do with the european thing? Poor ol' Dimbleby needs tucking in bed with a hot water bottle and a teddy bear! Funny old business with the recounts in N.I, hope Sinn Fein get it

Tory have gained 39 seats now - and still only just over half way through.....

oooh you poor lot, no idea how you're all still awake - I'm on the other side of the Atlantic so it's only 11.15 on Thursday night here and I'm already completely knackered!

no they don't have seats (thank god!) but they do have seats in Europe....