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Posted by: vidcapper 10th June 2017, 09:02 AM

Tories here.

Posted by: Willy's Tears 10th June 2017, 09:04 AM

Labour naturally.

In all 4 seats.

Posted by: ~josh~ 10th June 2017, 09:07 AM

Mid Beds has been Tory since 1931 and it stayed that way Nadine Dorries since 2005...

Posted by: vidcapper 10th June 2017, 09:36 AM

Labour did manage to break the all blue monopoly of Gloucestershire though - oddly enough in Stroud, which they can only usually win in landslide years.

Posted by: Willy's Tears 10th June 2017, 09:38 AM

It was a landslide year. 40% and nearly taking a lot more Tory seats. Tories were just protected by the unprecedented and undemocratic smear campaign, that's all.

Posted by: T Boy in Weeyals 10th June 2017, 09:44 AM

Labour

Posted by: Soy Adrián 10th June 2017, 09:47 AM

Labour in Manchester Central, and all the other Manchester seats.

In where I used to live in Sheffield, we did a clean sweep for the first time as well.

Posted by: Iz~ 10th June 2017, 10:10 AM

Tories but Labour increased their vote numbers from about 8k to 21k somehow and I'm still slightly shaken over the massive increase and the fact that my local area, which has never once had an Labour MP (though before boundary changes part of the seat did in 97 and 01), is now probably best defined as a marginal.

Posted by: vidcapper 10th June 2017, 10:11 AM

A landslide year is when you win a 100 seat or so majority, e.g. 1997 - not when, despite your best efforts, you still trail by 56.

As for the 'smear campaign', even without it, I don't believe enough hard-working tax-payers would have agreed to have their money stolen to pay for Corbyn's extravagant promises.

Posted by: Brett-Butler 10th June 2017, 10:13 AM

DUP - Dodds

Posted by: common sense 10th June 2017, 10:14 AM

Labour huge majority for Stephen Timms who was stabbed a few years ago. One of the highest in the country, even higher than Abbott's I think.

Posted by: vidcapper 10th June 2017, 10:35 AM

I dare say she had 'recovered' enough to appear at her count...

Posted by: Willy's Tears 10th June 2017, 11:01 AM

The vote sharw was landslide any other year.

The Tories were propped up by a vicious smear campaign and completely buased media. This is no small thing. It stole the Democratic Convention from Bernie too.

Your right wing party is a mess. We are on landslide numbers after people like tou said we ha dno chance and were on 20s oe low 30s best lol.

Posted by: Silas 10th June 2017, 11:06 AM

Labour unsurprisingly won in Salford and Eccles with an increased majority.


The SNP hung on to retain Fife North East where I grew up by just 2 votes!

Posted by: Harlot 10th June 2017, 11:10 AM

Sinn Fein (Francie Molloy)

Posted by: Steve201 10th June 2017, 12:59 PM

Emma Little-Pengelly �� (DUP)

Posted by: BillyH 10th June 2017, 01:07 PM

Labour with ease here in Brent. Always been a safe Labour seat (Ken Livingstone used to be the MP here) except for a few years post-Iraq when we went Lib Dem.

Posted by: Steve201 10th June 2017, 01:10 PM

You happy with the labour campaign?

Posted by: LexC♀ 10th June 2017, 01:16 PM

Stil the Tories down here in Hampshire but the Labour vote in Fareham doubled and locally they managed to win Portsmouth South for the first time ever and came within 10,000 votes of winning Basingstoke. They got a clean Red/Green sweep in Brighton as well.

Posted by: Andrew. 10th June 2017, 01:32 PM

The tories sadly gained Aberdeen South from the SNP (on a 15% swing) for the first time since 1992 (Anne Begg had held it from then until 2015)

Posted by: Chez Wombat 10th June 2017, 01:50 PM

Labour by about 23k votes, an increased majority despite my MP coming out as pro-Brexit which definitely riled a few people up down here. It's never in any doubt rlly, East London's a pretty permanent red zone before you get to the outskirts.

My old uni constituency, Kingston and Surbiton, was taken back from the Tories by the Lib Dems too

Posted by: dandy* 10th June 2017, 02:10 PM

Newark here so the Tories unsurprisingly won with a majority of over 18,000.

Posted by: Liаm 10th June 2017, 02:22 PM

Home (Kingswood) is still Tory, but there was an 18,000 majority to make up from 2015 so that wasn't a shock. Uni turned red though, I think it went from a slim Tory majority of something like 500 votes to Labour majority of a few thousand (I think it was 5) *.* The Labour candidate was campaigning lots and very visible whereas the former Tory MP defending his seat was suspected of fraud over election expenses and he's got a deserted office near my house here so it wasn't a surprise but still fab to see.

Posted by: cqmerqn 10th June 2017, 02:34 PM

Labour

Posted by: Gezza 10th June 2017, 03:13 PM

Tories here with 61% of the vote

Posted by: Oliver 10th June 2017, 05:45 PM

Labour, even though I don't like my MP.

Posted by: Qassändra 10th June 2017, 07:20 PM

Nobody earning less than 80k would've seen a tax rise under Corbyn's manifesto.

Posted by: Brer 10th June 2017, 07:48 PM

Tories (Alok Sharma) held on in Reading West but with a much smaller majority, while Reading East flipped red. My uni constituency Bath flipped from blue to orange *.

Posted by: Martyn 10th June 2017, 10:50 PM

Tories with like 67% of the vote. Priti Patel again.

Posted by: Houdini 11th June 2017, 12:34 AM

Labour won in my area with 75% of the vote.

Posted by: vidcapper 11th June 2017, 05:36 AM

Not an *income tax* rise, maybe...

Posted by: lewistgreen 11th June 2017, 07:25 AM

Labour, after Conservative have held the seat for 12 years!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th June 2017, 07:51 AM

Tories, with even more votes than last time. I honestly thought Labour would be back after the 2015 uproar of Balls not getting in.

Posted by: Suedehead2 11th June 2017, 09:56 AM

I think Timms' majority (in numerical terms) was the highest last time. It has a large electorate, an unusually high turnout for a safe Labour seat and a huge Labour majority in percentage terms. They all add up this time to give him a majority of almost 40,000. Most MPs didn't get anywhere near 40,000 votes.

Posted by: Silas 11th June 2017, 10:23 AM

Labour promised no VAT or National Insurance rises. Only income tax rises for those earning over £80k and Corporations to what is still one of the developed worlds lowest rates.

The Tories admitted during the campaign that they'd raise both NI and VAT.


So for the absolute majority of people a Tory government would have lead to tax increases with decreases coming for the 1% as usual. Labour would have seen no increase in tax for the absolute vast majority of people in this country.

That be the facts. And I work in Tax for a Big 4 firm so unlike you I actually know what I'm talking about here.

Posted by: Soy Adrián 11th June 2017, 07:08 PM

Yes, it was very good. I had misgivings going into it with both Corbyn's team and his most vehement critics, but both largely stepped up and knuckled down respectively.

Posted by: burbe 11th June 2017, 08:21 PM

Labour and we elected the first female Sikh MP in the UK *.*

Posted by: Willy's Tears 11th June 2017, 08:24 PM

Yeah, yeah, joining us on the bandwagon now we were proved right. I rremember you laughing at mr and the other Cornynistas and our grassroots campaigns.

Posted by: Brett-Butler 11th June 2017, 08:33 PM

I've obtained exclusive footage of another of the Cornynistas in action -

Posted by: danG 11th June 2017, 08:39 PM

Tories easily, with 63.6% of the vote - an increase from the 2015 election due to the UKIP vote collapsing.

Labour had the biggest %age increase though, from 15.2% to 22.3%.

Posted by: Soy Adrián 11th June 2017, 09:59 PM

I would genuinely love to know the image of me that you've developed.

Posted by: Brett-Butler 11th June 2017, 10:49 PM

I believe it's some version of the guy in the top hat & monocle -

Posted by: Spinfanny 11th June 2017, 11:34 PM

The election posters left out her first name unlike the other DUP election posters and didn't use the hyphen in her double barrel surname so if you didn't know who she was you may have thought she was using a quaint nickname to get more votes!

Posted by: Steve201 12th June 2017, 03:58 PM

I always thought she used her double barrelled name so that loyalists would know who her da was!

Posted by: Jade 12th June 2017, 06:55 PM

My constituency South Northamptonshire is a safe Tory seat, so no surprises who won here! Andrea Leadsom beat our Labour candidate Sophie Johnson by around 23,000 votes. Labour's share of the vote increased from 16% in 2015 to 27% this time though, so at least some progress!

Posted by: Spinfanny 12th June 2017, 08:40 PM

Perhaps, but I would like to think it was a more cross-community reason; the election posters just said 'Little Pengelly' so I thought she was using it to sound quaint in a bid to appeal to the popular vote outside the usual DUP voters.

Posted by: Mack 16th June 2017, 10:25 PM

Conservative with Harriet Baldwin.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 14th July 2017, 06:07 PM

In my constituency, it was Lucy Frazer of the Conservatives pretty overwhelmingly. She is a disgusting oaf.

Posted by: LadyLea 16th July 2017, 09:21 AM

Liberal Democrat here, taking the seat back off the Tories.