Thorougly enjoying watching the Lib Dem meltdown! Particularly in Sheffield, Clegg's backyard, where they look set to get nearly wiped out.

 

Disappointing to see the SNP have vacuumed up the Lib Dem vote in Scotland and so will leapfrog Labour... I've still got an outside hope we can get a majority in Wales though.

Thorougly enjoying watching the Lib Dem meltdown! Particularly in Sheffield, Clegg's backyard, where they look set to get nearly wiped out.

 

Disappointing to see the SNP have vacuumed up the Lib Dem vote in Scotland and so will leapfrog Labour... I've still got an outside hope we can get a majority in Wales though.

I live in Sheffield and I really don't know one person who considered voting Lib Dem. MASSIVE difference to the General Election last year. Very pleasing though.

No doubt there are a lot of very good, very hard-working councillors losing their seats tonight which is very sad and not good for local government. Unfortunately in the last 30 years or so the only period when local elections seemed largely to be determined on local issues was around 1998-2001. Part of that is down to successive governments centralising control in Westminster which means that people feel more able to boot out large numbers of councillors knowing it might not make much difference.

Iain Gray only just held his seat :o

Disappointed to see Labour only gain one seat ward in Trafford, although it was Timperley where we came a distant third last year ^_^

My seat still hasn't declared but is now expected to go from one of the safest LibDem seats in the entire United Kingdom to a SNP win :mellow:

 

 

SNP will have gone from 3rd with 21.4% of the vote to overhaul the LibDems who got 42.2% of the vote with a 15.9% majority at the last election.

The SNP got every seat in the North East region on the Constituency vote, and managed to pick up a seat on the regional list, despite it supposedly being impossible for them to do so

 

The BBC Say:

 

The SNP won all 10 first-past-the-post seats in the north east and it should have been impossible for them to pick up any additional list seats. The SNP got a 40.5% share on the North East list. The next closest was Labour on 19.6%. The Greens polled more than 10,000 regional votes in north east but were squeezed out by the SNP's massive 140,749. The SNP got almost 14 times the number of votes of the party in fifth place, the Scottish Greens.

Iain Gray only just held his seat :o

 

I demand a recount.....

 

DAMN!! It would've been so hilarious to have seen him getting booted out..... :lol: :lol:

 

The Lib Dems have really been pasted, but oddly the Tories not punished so much... Nick Clegg has proven an incredibly effective "Human Shield" for Cameron... Pity Osama Bin Laden didn't think about hiring Clegg as his own human shield, chances are he'd still be alive...... :rolleyes:

Stunning success for the SNP. The lesson for Labour here is that they still need to be wary of being outflanked from the left, and they can't rely on all disillusioned Lib Dems to come to them by default.

 

And now starts the calls from ousted Lib Dem councillors for Clegg to quit...

It's looking likely they're going to get mauled on the AV vote too....

 

...Poor Lib Dums, must feel absolutely terrible to be betrayed by a bunch of people you put your faith in, eh...?

Most shocking is the utter decimation of LibDems in Fife.

 

 

In Dunfermline they have gone from first with a good majority to THIRD. With the SNP cleaning up.

 

In Fife North East, Mighty Ming's Westminster seat, the seat that has been Liberal Democrat since the 70's has become a SAFE SNP seat. A massive 15% swing kicked out Ian Smith. :mellow:

 

I'm in actual shock that I am now a SNP seat. I was sure that LD would manage to cling onto at least our seat.

 

 

Mid-Fife and Glenrothes is a SNP hold, Cowdenbeath would vote labour even if their MP and MSP take an AK47 and murder 90% of the town so it's no surprise they hold that one.

 

 

SNP are now on 62 seats. 3 short of the majority that the Labour government set up the voting system to ensure would NEVER happen

I love how they keep claiming it's just an "anti-government backlash"... it's not, it's an anti-LIB DEM backlash, as evidenced by the Tory vote holding up fairly well, and the fact the Tories are making a lot of gains at the Libs' expense in the south. On these figures at a general election, the Lib Dems would be down to 20 seats (while Labour would scrape an overall majority).

Utter shock. Can't believe it. Fife NE was such a SAFE LD seat.

Also, I think in Scotland, it's important to point out Labour's vote is only down about 0.5%... the real story of the SNP's surge is the Lib Dems down 8% and the Tories down 3% (from already much lower levels).

Utter shock. Can't believe it. Fife NE was such a SAFE LD seat.

 

I have to tip my cap to you tbh! When you said a few months ago that you thought the SNP would pull it off, when Labour were well ahead in the polls, I wondered what the hell you were smoking.

I love how they keep claiming it's just an "anti-government backlash"... it's not, it's an anti-LIB DEM backlash, as evidenced by the Tory vote holding up fairly well, and the fact the Tories are making a lot of gains at the Libs' expense in the south. On these figures at a general election, the Lib Dems would be down to 20 seats (while Labour would scrape an overall majority).

The big obstacle to using the Scottish election votes to work out how that affects Westminster is that people vote differently for Holyrood. I would imagine that Ming should hold NEFife despite the Scottish equivalent going SNP

I have to tip my cap to you tbh! When you said a few months ago that you thought the SNP would pull it off, when Labour were well ahead in the polls, I wondered what the hell you were smoking.

Never underestimate Alex Salmond.

 

I have stood by my opinion that the SNP would win and could take a majority, they did run the superior campaign, and to be fair to them they did very well in their last term.

 

 

Argyll & Bute went SNP in the last election as they just beat LibDem. LibDem have slumped to 4th with Labour and the Torys are ahead. SNP Hold it to take them to 63.

 

 

The last two constituency seats to declare are in Mid-Scotland and Fife, Clackmannanshire and Kirkcaldy.

Kirkcaldy declares a SNP Gain!!!!

 

What was seen to be a insanely safe Labour seat thanks to Brown has joined Fife NE in crumbling.

 

Clackmannanshire & Dunblane are left to declare and was a SNP seat in 2007. Safe to assume that's not going to change giving SNP their 65 seats and a majority. They'd also take all but 1 of the constituency seats in Mid-Scotland and Fife.

Clackmannanshire & Dunblane is now officially in.

 

 

SNP Hold.

 

 

SNP are now on 65 seats, which is officially a majority. Scotland has a majority government, despite the voting system being designed to prevent that from ever happening. They won a massive 53 of the 73 constituency seats.

 

Historic day.

The Greens have made substantial gains in Brighton and Hove (particularly from the Tories) and are now the largest party there.