It's time to see if the polls are right.
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2024
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73 in Keir Starmer's electorate voted "for more than one candidate". I'd love to see what those ballots looked like. Or to speak with those voters. Was it a change of mind that they thought they could just cross out? Did they think they were doing an IRV vote? Approval voting? Was it just a deliberate nonsense protest vote?
From the Wikipedia article:
wp:2024 United Kingdom general election
is the,
UK general election 2024: live results in full
As of 02:56 UTC, 5 July 2024,
Labour: 168
Conservative: 28
Lib-Dem: 18
As of 04:03 UTC, 5 July 2024,
(7:03 AM EEST/MSK/TRT, 5 July 2024,
5:03 AM BST, 5 July 2024)
12:03 AM EDT, 5 July 2024,
9:03 PM PDT, 4 July 2024)
Labour: 326
Conservative: 70
Lib-Dem: 44
Green: 1
Am I calculating this correctly that it's now been nearly 4 hours since polls closed? How have we only heard 2% of results? You don't even have preferences to distribute.
It's pretty much on time compared to previous elections.
But how is it so slow? We'd have far more results than that in Australia, despite a much more complicated process where we have to do the first count just like this, and then additionally distribute preferences. And then also count the Senate results.
Does your electoral commission just not hire enough people?
Possibly, I think it might actually involve a lot of volunteers.
Does it need to be any quicker? It's not really important to get the results in by 4am instead of 7am, surely?
The ship is ship shape
tories lost, labour didn't win. labour's vote share plunging in constituencies they won is terrible for starmer's hope for a long mandate.