BBC reporting likely Hung Parliament led by Conservatives...

[brooklynite]

Exit Poll suggests:

Conservatives - 307 seats
Labour - 255
Liberal-Democrats - 59
Other parties - 20

[PM Martin]

1. Recall the 92 election.

The Labour majority never formed and the Cons had a small majority.
Possible this time?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Still possible

That prediction is notable that the Lib Dems have actually lost one or two seats since 2005. :( What the fuck has happened?

[PM Martin]

5. Lib Dems being near 30%.

How did they lose seats?
How did the Cons get so many seats?
I was seeing this as a possibility:
Lab: 250+-
Con: 275
Lib 100+

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. They must have dropoed below 25% to be that low

The supporters were younger than average; maybe they didn't vote after all.

[Sanity Claws]

2. I thought the LIb-Dems were expected to do better than that

Labor and Lib-Dems together have more than COns alone. Couldn't they form a coalition government?

[brooklynite]

4. Lib-Dems reported faded over the last week...

They could potentially form a Government with Labour, but I gather Clegg and Brown don't get along very well.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. That prediction doesn't even give them enough between the 2 of them

They need 323 (assuming Sinn Fein doesn't vote, which they've said they won't). 255+59=314. Add in a couple of independents, and 2 of 3 of SNP, Plaid and the SDLP, and they might make it.

Alex Salmond may be celebrating already. He may be even more of a kingmaker than the Lib Dems.

[malaise]

8. Note this comment

10pm “first wave” exit poll data:
307 seats – Conservative Party
255 seats – Labour Party
59 seats – Liberal Democrat Party
29 seats – Other Parties
Exit poll results indicate a hung parliament with a strong conservative plurality. The 59 seat LD prediction is far under-performing pre-election polls so take this first data with a grain of salt.

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