UK General Election Result

Basically, it's as accurate as you can get until you have several hundred constituencies reporting results.....but it is a huge surprise if it's even close to correct.

There's basically three different polls that are used to estimate the final outcome of an election prior to the actual counting of the votes which can take several hours at the lower end of the scale.

Prior to the day of the election you have Opinion Polls where samples of the public are asked who they plan to vote for. Then on election day you have Entrance and Exit Polls. Entrance Polls see voters asked who they play to vote for on the way into the polling station whilst Exit Polls see them asked who they actually voted for on the way out.

You might not think there's be much difference between the entrance/exit results but there were all sorts of issues at polling stations across the country today that could easily have swayed people to change their vote at the last minute.

Any of these polls are only as reliable as the answers people give and not everyone will choose to answer so you'll never get the full picture but from Britain's first exit poll in 1970 only one in 1992 was wrong.

Rarely a truer word spoken. Divide appears to be along the lines of BREXIT, and if you think about it this makes sense, cos far more constituencies voted REMAIN than LEAVE, but the overall majority vote by vote was LEAVE.

Theresa May called a snap election after Brexit among the chaos, in the hopes of securing an easy victory over the opposition, Labour, led by the widely named "unelectable" Corbyn. A guy loved by the people, especially the younger folk, and hated by many among his party and the media for being a more traditional liberal. Everyone before this election predicted an easy win for The Conservatives, then the exit poll suggested a very close election. And at the moment, it seems to be pretty bad for The Conservatives/Theresa May. People are calling and asking for her to resign over this huge blunder, and Labour might even end up forming a coalition government. It's not over yet though, here's a good infographic that's being updated as it goes on and a livestream.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2017/jun/08/live-uk-election-results-in-full-2017
https://www.facebook.com/skynews/videos/1787086564639266/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

You watch it change....by Monday.

Was he the Official Raving Monster Loony Party candidate? If so, that is a longstanding electoral tradition.

I thought you Italians / Romans invented it?

Now that would be interesting.
One twit with bad hair in the US and one in the UK :D

While all the consequences are utterly depressing, especially now we get the Irish crazy joining in, its been rather funny watching the Tories shoot themselves in the head twice in two years. That it doesn't seem to have harmed their standing with the electorate one iota leaves me crying with equal parts despair and laughter.

Least it wasn't dull, right? :)