[Man On The Moon]

627 Parliamentary seats declared from 646 total :-

LABOUR :- 355

CONSERVATIVE :- 197

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT :- 62

OTHER :- 13

Labour current majority in Parliament therefore 83. This is obviously subject to alteration as the remaining 19 seats are declared.

The suprise, bar some traditional Labour strongholds falling to the Tories surely must be that the Liberal Democrats have done far better than was expected - BBC Radio 4 expected until very late this morning that they would actually lose some seats gained in the 2001 win. However it's difficult to deny that the Conservatives owe much of the thirty some seats gained to Liberal Democrat influence, rather than soley their own campaigning.

[Prosthetic Conscience]

Actually, the exit poll got the Labour majority exactly right - 66 (that assumes teh Tories hold their safe seat that wasn't contested because the Lib Dem candidate dies). The exit poll did guess less seats for the Lib Dems (and more for the Conservatives) than actually happened.

[Man On The Moon]

Hmm - I appear to be in error then.

[Just Some Guy]

hey, the exit poll put the lib dems 9 seats down on what we actually were. Considering we only made 11 gains that's a very big discrepancy.