Election results

[callmemadam]

I certainly didn’t stay up to watch the results come in but I did glance at the exit polls before going to bed. They suggested that the Liberal Democrats were likely to win seats where they were second to the Conservatives, especially those which they lost in 2015. That’s exactly what has happened here. Annette Brooke was our Lib Dem MP for fourteen years until she retired and was made a dame. In 2015, the Conservative candidate won the seat. Now, he’s out and the Lib Dems are back. This is not at all surprising; it’s part of a long, long tradition of Liberalism (sic) in the South West of England.

Comments

[gwendraith]

It was a fabulous result for the Lib Dems. My own Lib Dem candidate didn't win, and wasn't expected to in deeply red Manchester, but she increased the Lib Dem vote and the Labour vote was down by almost 15%.

[callmemadam]

I found it surprising how accurate all the predictions were.

[feather_ghyll]

I went for a lie down after seeing the exit poll, which was surprisingly accurate, and then stayed up from 12.30 until Liz Truss lost. I took yesterday off! The Liberal Democrats' targeting of places where they were the most likely to oust the Conservatives certainly came off. Why, even mid Wales remembered it had a similar tradition to south-west England!

[callmemadam]

You have more stamina than I do! The exit polls were pretty accurate about the Lib Dem vote.