Are you excited for the Inverness result which could give us our 72nd (yes, that’s SEVENTY TWO) MP?
Highland Council are streaming it on You Tube. Watch, live from Dingwall.
Enjoy. It’s likely to be a wee while yet before we get a declaration.
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17 Comments
Skye’s the limit (till next time) 🙂
Dear me. It’s like watching paint dry!
I have never known such slowness at any count I’ve ever attended.
I am pretty confident that the returning officer, with agreement, can declare the result if any vote discrepancy would not affect the result.
” Are we nearly there yet?”
Democracy at its best, I love it. They’ve just announced on radio a third recount is underway.
Do you think they would move faster if it were Scotland, not England, kicking off against Switzerland at 5.00 p.m?
The poll station staff do a brilliant job. People need to be more patient.
It really is slow motion in non action. There surely will need to be questions asked
How many recounts were needed for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber before Russell Johnston was declared winner in 1992?
Maybe they should get extra bodies in from Sunderland?
Does anyone have a clue what’s going on? Nothing seems to be happening at all!
According to The Inverness Courier reporter, the LibDem, SNP & Tory agents have all had the same complaint about lack of transparency by the Returning Officer. (Posted about 5.20pm.) The reporter says that they have not been given any indication of the scale of discrepancy at the verification stage.
For us, hopefully it should not make a difference. As the report wrote, “The election agents and other observers are convinced that the result will not change – the Lib Dems’ Angus MacDonald is the expected winner – but they are worried about the vote.”
Yes the result has been declared but it was difficult to hear, Angus Macdonald won with 18,000 odd votes think I heard and gave a good speech. I’m sure the full figures will be up soon.
Full figures on BBC website, Lib Dem gain from SNP.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/S14000094
This report appears on the BBC website. “A meaningful victory for the Lib Dems in Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd10ene4n5rt You need to scroll down a bit.
Nearly 3k votes between the top two – can’t understand why so many recounts !
I don’t think there was ever any doubt about who had won.
The problem was that the box count (the number of votes in the ballot boxes) did not tally with the final result.
Now, unless the discrepancy was larger than the majority and correcting it might have changed the result [which seems highly improbable], then the returning officer could have declared the result with the agreement of the candidates.
But, no, it seems he wasn’t prepared to do that and insisted on a complete recount starting at 10.30 this morning and lasting almost 7 hours.
Tedious and quite possibly unnecessary, but in the end we got the result we wanted. The 2024 General Election is now over and our 72 MPs can get to work.
I think I rather enjoyed that – a long,. slow, drawn-out ritual skewering of the SNP. Couldn’t have happened in a more appropriate constituency.