Election 2015: Conservatives Big Winners Across England

BBC News ^ | 05/08/2015 | BBC News

[goldstategop]

The Conservatives have emerged as the dominant force in English politics after a string of surprising wins in key constituencies.

Significant gains in the marginal "killing fields" helped the party to a comfortable majority.

In a night of upheaval, seats previously considered Labour and Lib Dem strongholds turned blue as results trickled in.

Several high-profile names including Ed Balls and Vince Cable lost their seats.

Failure to win key marginals, combined with Labour losses in Scotland, prompted Ed Miliband to stand down.

Meanwhile, Nick Clegg resigned as Liberal Democrat leader after his party suffered heavy losses and UKIP leader Nigel Farage also stood down.

Of its top 20 target marginal seats, the Conservative Party claimed 11.

The picture that emerged from the exit poll just after 22:00 BST on 7 May predicted the Conservatives would gain 316 seats, but as results were confirmed they exceeded earlier predictions.

Their majority was secured when Geoffrey Clifton-Brown held The Cotswolds to clinch the 326 seats needed to win with a handful of constituencies left to declare

[goldstategop]

So-called marginals - or swing seats - contributed to the scale of the Tory win across England. It helped the Conservatives to secure their first winning parliamentary majority since 1992.

[SandRat]

Does the Torie victory mean a return to the MagnaCarta and shredding of all the Labour Trash?

[entropy12]

Good news Thanks for the post.

[goldstategop]

It means the old centralized UK as we have known it for centuries is dead.

Devolution is going to continue with the UK being restructured along federal lines.

This is the only hope of keeping it together.

[FredZarguna]

Britain’s Liberal Democrats Defeat Britain’s Far-Left Loony Democrats in Stunning Upset.

[arthurus]

It is better to call them Toies because they are no more conservative than our own Republican Party.

[ntnychik]

Funny. Last night’s NBC correspondent was certain the conservatives wouldn’t do well enough to avoid having to form a coalition.

[Jim Noble]

The English, the English, the English are best
I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest

[bravo whiskey]

Interesting. In UK the “leaders” step down when they lose. In us the claim victory and stay on (dingy harry and pelosi)

[dfwgator]

You mean the Conversative Wing of the Uniparty won.

[dfwgator]

I can’t find a single difference between Cameron and Tony Blair.

[DoughtyOne]

Excellent.

Now we elect someone sound for next year, and we get back to the 80s.

Crossed fingers.

[SunkenCiv]

from the "2014 predictions" thread, thanks Perdogg:

1. David Cameron, UK Prime Minister
   • will repair his reputation in 2014
   • will lead the Tories to an outright victory in 2015
   • many will scoff at these particular predictions

[Churchillspirit]

I can't find a single difference between Cameron and Tony Blair.

Now we will see how Cameron leads the country when he not beholden to the LibDems.

He has already stated that he will not remain PM for the entire 5 year term.

After him the bets are on Boris Johnson, currently mayor of London. No blushing violet him. Shades of Churchill.

[TBP]

The third largest party only got ONE seat!!!

[PhilDragoo]

Suppressing the vote--so transparent.

[Steven Scharf]

“The third largest party only got ONE seat!!!”

Wrong, the Scottish National Party came in third and now has 56 seats.

The Liberal Dems who were the third largest party now has 8 seats.

[TBP]

The third largest party in terms of total votes is UKIP.

[TBP]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/the-chart-that-shows-how-5658134

[Impy]

That can happened, getting 15% in every seat would give you 15% of the vote and zero seats.