Depressed lefty red-eye thread

[policywonk]

hello

Oxford west! How did this happen/

At least Ester Ransom did crap!

Don't they say that whoever wins Luton wins the election...?

Have bbc on and flicking through news sites. BBC is crap this year though

Oxford West - new boundaries did for Harris apparently. Been beaten by a cocking Christian Conservative.

"Luton South
In every general election since 1951, the party that has won this seat has been the same party that has gone on to form the government"

Me? I'm getting stuff from Twitter.

still @ oxford

BBC reckon that the debates made things worse for independants and small parties.

Am quite concerned about the voters not voting too

harris was a really good mp for oxford. its so sad.

hello everyone. truly gutted that evan harris has lost his seat

this is all rather depressing isn't it? can't believe the lib dems are doing so badly, really believed they were going to make a breakthrough this time [deluded emoticon]

V surprised by the lib dems

The candidates know the result before the official announcements.
When they do the counts they literally make piles of ballot papers and you can tell from the size of the piles. Most counts have journalists embedded (as well as party officials) so they blog/tweet/etc etc.

I don't believe it ox west and Abingdon is lost to the bloody Tories. Harris has been agreat MP. And nicola Blackwood just looks mad. And only about 1000 votes in it. Ivthought this seat was pretty safe.

Len - yes, party workers are leaking stuff basically

Sutton is LibDem hold

Ed Balls is a hold (these both rumours)

oh God I really don't want a tory lib dem govt

Jacqui Smith gone...