Here are the headline figures currently:
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Conservative 36%, 306 MPs
Labour 29%, 258 MPs
Lib Dems 23%, 57 MPs
As many have pointed out, how absurd is it that the Lib Dems can increase its share of the vote, but lose 10% of its MPs? As Ben Goldacre tweeted:
lib dems get 6.6m votes and 53 seats, labour get 8.4m votes and 252 seats, our voting system is broken
You can find a full list of Lib Dem MPs here.
2.20 pm
Three results have come in over the last hour or so, all Lib Dem HOLDS (phew). So congratulations to:
Martin Horwood in Cheltenham, who gained an impressive 4.3% swing from the Tories:
Martin Horwood Liberal Democrat 26,659 50.5% (+11.1)
Conservative 21,739 41.2% (+2.4)
Labour 2,703 5.1% (-6.7)
Alan Beith in Berwick-upon-Tweed, who won though with a much reduced majority and an 8.2% swing to the Tories:
Alan Beith Liberal Democrat 16,806 43.7% (-8.9)
Conservative 14,116 36.7% (+7.7)
Labour 5,061 13.2% (-5.2)
Alan Reid in Argyll & Bute, who won with a small swing of 2.7% to the Tories:
Alan Reid Liberal Democrat 14,292 31.6% (-4.9)
Conservative 10,861 24.0% (+0.5)
Labour 10,274 22.7% (+0.3)
Scottish National Party 8,563 18.9% (+3.4)
Two constiuencies with strong Lib Dem interests left to declare:
Tim Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
Andrew George, St Ives
We’ll bring you the results … soon, I hope. (And then I may go to bed).
2.31 pm
Wow!! What an incredible result in Westmorland and Lonsdale: Tim Farron HOLDS with incredible 11.1% swing from the Tories. Tim scores 60% of the vote and squeezes the Labour vote down to 2%. Amazing stuff. Perhaps it’s as well this seat declared late – if it had been first up, we might otherwise have had quite different expectations of the night …
Tim Farron Liberal Democrat 30,896 60.0% (+14.1)
Conservative 18,632 36.2% (-8.1)
Labour 1,158 2.2% (-5.6)
3.19 pm
And the penultimate result where the Lib Dems have expectations – and it’s a HOLD for Andrew George in St Ives (though not without a fright):
Andrew George Liberal Democrat 19,619 42.7 -9.1
Conservative 17,900 39.0 +11.7
Labour 3,751 8.2 -4.4
4.39 pm
And so it ends as it begun and continued: disappointingly – the Tories have held Devon West and Torridge.
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8 Comments
Excellent result for Tim In Westmorland – 12,264 majority.
A Lib-Tory coalition would be a betrayal of many progressive Lib Dem voters: http://www.nextleft.org/2010/05/you-cant-put-tories-in-with-deniability.html
p.s. I know I’m not the favourite person of some Lib Dem activists re: my recent criticisms of their tax proposals, but I just wanted to say that I am genuinely gutted about Evan Harris – Parliament has lost a real voice of conscience and will be worse for it
In case no-one’s yet spotted it, BBC report Farron’s won with an 11 per cent swing from the Tories. 12,264 majority. Shame we couldn’t share those votes around to a few other seats…
Wow. What a weird, weird, weird set of results. Congratulations to Tim Farron. But yeah, there’s the horror of the system in a nutshell – 10,000 votes more than we needed, completely wasted, and could have won us half a dozen other seats if they happened to be elsewhere. Daft and depressing.
Andy – fab!
Cameron’s offer – sounds very nice, lots of tempting goodies, but nothing substantial on Reform – merely equal size constituencies (ha! as if that made a difference) and the promise of a convention. No, ta! Our system is more broken than that, and we have 23% of the vote to your 36%, matey. We have a moral right to a more substantial Reform package, to be promised beforehand, not at some unspecified time in the future. He must go further.
Have just listened (7/5/10) to David Cameron’s so called “comprehensive” offer – do not do a deal with the Tories, they are not offering anything significant – such weasel words – he excluded more than he offered. Without a commitment to PR any offer on political reform is a cynical ploy and completely unacceptable.
Tim Horton
“all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”, or “all it takes for the Conservatives to triumph is for Gordon Brown to block voting reform until it’s too late”
I see Dave on 35%-36%, wasn’t that what Blair got in 2005 ?
The thought of a referendum on voting reform – with the Tories and the media pouring money into a no campaign with the slogan vote for PR or AV and get Gordon Back, is not very appealing.
It is the first time i have voted libdems and it will be the last if they join with the Tories