Election results live: Cameron on course to remain PM as Labour hopes fade
Election results live: Cameron on course to remain PM as Labour hopes fade
Rolling coverage of the results of the UK general election 2015,
including the exit poll, the results as they come in, and all the best
reaction, comment and analysis
Election results live: Cameron on course to remain PM as Labour hopes fade
Rolling coverage of the results of the UK general election 2015,
including the exit poll, the results as they come in, and all the best
reaction, comment and analysis
The leftwing People Before Profit party has done considerably well in West Belfast, the stronghold of Sinn Fein.
Sinn Fein’s Paul Maskey, as expected, won the seat with 19,163
votes, an increase of 3,000 votes in the last byelection in the
constituency. “This is a vote against austerity,” Maskey told the
audience.
But Gerry O’Carroll of People Before Profit stunned the King’s Hall
in Belfast with 6,798 votes. O’Carroll said it was a “groundbreaking
result” for his party, which in real terms means a seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly this time next year.
Overall
so far the party scores are two seats tp Sinn Fein, six to the DUP and
one for the Ulster Unionists. The DUP should end up with eight seats as
before and could still potentially play a key role if David Cameron
needs them.
Every Labour figure being interviewed is being asked if Ed Miliband
should stay as leader. They have all either sidestepped the question,
or said yes, but in private Labour figures are saying something
different.
Labour MPs and party sources are telling me they can't see how Ed Miliband can stay on as leader... #GE2015
Before the election it was assumed that Ed Miliband would be forced
out if he did not become prime minister. Over the last few weeks there
may have been a rethink, because he was judged to have fought an
effective personal campaign. But, ultimately, it is the result that
counts, and if the exit poll does turn out to be accurate, the pressure
to go will be very strong.
Mike O’Brien, the former Labour
minister, has failed to take North Warwickshire back from the
Conservatives. The Tories’ majority in 2010 was just 54, and this was
Labour’s top target.
Sour faces among the Ukip faithful here in East Kent at the news that
its candidate Jamie Huntman had failed to win in Castle Point. It’s a
result that bodes ill for Nigel Farage, given that both it and South Thanet were south eastern Ukip target seats.
Castle
Point was significant for a number of reasons. Huntman had been tipped
by some in the party as a potential future leader, but not now being an
MP potentially makes it impossible for him to lead the party should
Farage step down as promised in the even of failing to enter parliament.
I spent some time with Huntman two weeks ago and while he was
benefiting from the efforts of a large team of local Ukip activists and
enthusiastic youngsters from elsewhere, it seemed at that point that the
wind was starting to come back in to the sails of the Rebecca Harris,
the sitting Tory MP.
After putting both parties at almost neck and neck in Castle Point
last February, an Ashcroft poll on last month had put Ukip and the
Tories on 36% and 41%, respectively.
Labour sources are now admitting that the results in Scotland are “very difficult” and they are blaming the SNP for David Cameron’s likely return to Number 10.
If the exit poll is right, the seats the SNP are taking off Labour will turn out to be crucial if David Cameron ends up back in No 10. The next government will have huge task uniting country.
It sounds like Labour is coming close to admitting defeat.
The Democratic Unionist Party has recaptured East Belfast. Gavin Robinson won the seat with 19,575 votes, with the former MP, Naomi Long of the Alliance party, polling 16,974 votes. The DUP will now definitely go back to the Commons with eight seats.
David Cameron has arrived at the Witney count. He
came on to the floor shortly after 2.30am and has spent his time here
chatting to counters. As far as the media goes, though, it seems he has
nothing to say, at present anyway. He walked past the waiting cameras
making no comment as broadcasters shouted: “How is it going?”
David Cameron arriving in Witney.
Cameron did one lap of the floor before departing, less than 10 minutes after arriving.
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