so, did anybody actually VOTE LibDem then?

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Or was it just a brief flirtation before going 'back to base' as it were?

Sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseam on the other threads, haven't checked in on those yet, but I have to say I'm gutted that there wasn't more of a breakthrough for LibDems.
Myself, I'm in a Lab safe seat, LibDems in second place. I contemplated voting LibDem as really wanted electoral reform and GB out, but didn't in the end because:

1. Couldn't trust them not to do a deal with Tories
2. Nick Clegg was even going soft on electoral reform last week - the one abiding reason to vote for them
3. Not convinced they are strongly anti-poverty

Why did the rest of you not vote for them then?

Yes, I did, and they came a very strong second to the Con candidate who was always going to win

11.5k people voted libdem in Hove. Stonking turnout but we still ended up with a Tory

I didn't in the end - decision made after I got the Lib Dem candidate bumph through the door and discovered

a) he wasn't "local"

b) the bumph showed very little awareness of local issues.

I ended up voting "locall" rather than nationally

I did! But safe Conservative seat here, neighbouring constituency went yellow though!

It just shows how completely unrepresentative of the whole country MN is!!

I voted Lib Dem but as usual Labour got in here.

TBh I wasn't exactly overwhelmed with the caliber of any of the candidates standing in my constituency.

Lots of people did. Look on BBC website for the actual votes tally. At the mo it's

10.1 million Tory
8.1 million Labour
6.4 million Lib Dem

Yet the seats are:

289 Tory
246 Labour
51 Lib Dem

The system does need a reform.

and actually round here (Lab/Con marginal) Lib Dem had a 5% increase on previous election so a lot more people voted for them

They didn't increase their share of the vote one iota. I stuck with Labour partly because I thought tons of others would be deserting to the LDs, and I didn't want Labour annihilated.
We seem to have ended up with a result no one will be happy with.
And how on earth do we get rid of Brown??

Yes, I did but they didn't win here by about 2000 votes, gutted.

I don't understand either. I voted Lib Dem, DH did too (for the first time), ditto over half of my friends. Of course, the fact we're in a very strong Tory safe seat might have something to do with our lack of results....

DH and I voted lib dem but we are in a tory ultra safe area.

no.

Our candidate isn't local either.

I wasn't going to vote for them anyway tbh, but when the surge happened after the first debate dh said he thought it would be unlikely they would actually gain many votes because people would feel uneasy about voting for something they knew so little about - and he was right.

I wondered about it but went SNP in the end.

Didn't make any difference in Glasgow anyway ......

I did - but safe tory seat

Seems to be the overwhelming problem - many of us voted for them but in ultra safe seats the vote is now meaningless

I did ... but have for the last two GEs, so not part of the apparent swing anyway.

I did and dh did. I have never voted anything else! We're in an ultra safe Tory seat - they lost a bit of ground in my constituency.

lost here by less than 200 votes

gah

thought we were a safe lib dem seat but seems that labour voters defected to Tory

I voted Lib Dem and our area is Lib Dem but votes haven't even been counted here yet. We are still waiting.

I did, but am in Labour ultra safe seat so made no difference at all. Whole thing definitely needs reforming.

DH and I did, most of my local friends did.

Tory win (massive swing, ousted Labour), Labour next
Lib Dem 3rd