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voting-information-for-richmond-park-by-electionThe polls have just closed in Great Britain's General Election, In which everyone votes for a local MP, who then form a government. In principle, anyway. And with a legal reporting blackout on electoral matters today, as the doors to the polling station over the road close, we have the results of the Exit Poll too.

Yes, I voted. Walked the ten metres and back.

https://twitter.com/molcher/status/872903524790697984

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/872823073489264642

https://twitter.com/PopCultureHound/status/872809090493415426

https://twitter.com/WhatRobinDoes/status/872789937040568321

https://twitter.com/feemcbee/status/872767322825609216

Looks like you were right, Sarah! The BBC predict a Conservative win, but not an overall majority….voting-information-for-richmond-park-by-election

Conservative 314
Labour 266
SNP 34
Lib Dem 14
Plaid 3
Green 1
UKIP 0
Other 18

Which rather defeats the point of Theresa May calling an election in the first place, as she would have lost her overall majority. To form a majority government, a party needs 326 MPs and the Conservatives can usually rely on the Northern Irish unionist parties to help out. But that wouldn't be enough.

Of course, polls can be wrong and it doesn't need a lot to swing it back the other way.

Will Theresa May remain as Prime Minister? Will Boris NJohnson step in? All sorts of things are up in play. And a better result for Jeremy Corbyn than Ed Miliband as Labour leader…

https://twitter.com/tomwhx/status/872920949783502848

https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/872923011623653376

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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