Quick question about vote totals

[Cyclops]

I hope this doesn't sound too dim a question but after all the votes have been counted per constituency, do the votes then get rolled up and reported as an overall national total, e.g. Labour = x million, Cons = y million etc??

Just curious really, I can't recall seeing the results ever depicted in this way....

No
it's 650 individual elections where each winner becomes the MP for that constituency and largest party normally forms Govt

Yes, definitely - but it doesn't mean anything. All that matters is the individual results in the 650 constituencies.

Thanks. I get that each constituency is stand-alone but a vote for Labour (say) is a vote for Labour, wherever you live. I would be interested in seeing the grand totals for each party, though I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to tot up the individual totals.

can i add a question about exit polls?

has anyone ever actually been asked? ,i have voted several times over the years for local, mayoral and general elections, at a variety of polling stations and have never seen anyone doing an exit poll - how do they work?

I've never been asked for an exit poll.

The overall percentages are reported as well - it has happened that the party with the highest % vote isn't the overall winner.

Years ago my mother was asked how she'd voted when exiting the polling station. Her frosty response was, 'Young man, we have a secret ballot... thanks to the Liberals'

Do they mainly poll marginal seats?

They take a spread of constituencies across the country and try to stick to the same ones each election - unless there is a boundary change so that the constituency no longer exists.