A dynamic selection of camera angles at Dingwall Counting Centre reveals a strategically placed balcony, perhaps for the media scrum? A bored correspondent from STV and reporters for both the remaining local newspapers gather to moan about the tedium of it all over coffee.
A sheep wanders unnoticed through the back of the hall. A man texts. A woman takes a nap.
Could there be an announcement. Probably. Who knows? We are, perhaps, beyond caring at this stage.
The Socialist Equality Party contingent attempts to start a chorus of Ten Green Bottles to keep everyone's spirits up, but the assembled masses grind to a half-hearted halt at around Eight Green Bottles. Bottles of whisky are all anybody wants now. Possibly served with diazepam.
Alas, no pics of the ballots, little drawings, etc.
The tension is building towards a crescendo at the Dingwall Counting Centre... Unfortunately the live stream is shite:
"Due to the use if [sic] satellite technology, the stream may buffer, please be patient the stream will return"
One suspects that the satellite "technology" is of ex-Soviet vintage. On loan from Mr V Putin, Moscow.
But in the short intervals when the images are actually moving, it's gripping stuff. Rivals the England football team for entertainment and sheer flair.
They shouldn't have tried all that blue Skye thinking.
The snide and in some cases plain nasty comments on here today about Farage and Reform are quite nasty.
For the first time since the 1661 election, the Cavalier-Anti Exclusionist-Court-Tory-Conservative party has not got a parliamentary monopoly on its wing of politics in England/Great Britain.
And they do not like it, they do not like it one bit, they do not like it up 'em.
Isnt the snide coming from the traditional left, rather than conservatives, who at least agree with 85% of what reform said, if not the nature of how it is said.
OT but whjile we wait on Dingwall - some more maps up for free online from the nice people at the National Library in Edinburgh.
"New Ordnance Survey National Grid Maps of England and Wales, 1940s-1970s Although not relating to Scotland (which has had maps at these scales online already for some years), NLS has recently put online 137,859 OS National Grid maps of England and Wales at 1:1,250/1:2,500 scales (1940s-1970s). These are the most detailed maps published by Ordnance Survey of England and Wales after the Second World War. All urban areas with more than about 20,000 inhabitants were mapped at 1:1,250 scale, and all other inhabited areas and cultivated land were mapped at 1:2,500. At 1:1,250 scale, most detached features covering 1 square metre or larger are usually shown. These maps are excellent for viewing divisions between houses, house numbers, public and industrial buildings, railways, pavements, streets and street names, parkland and trees, paths, spot heights, and all administrative urban and rural boundaries. These maps were continually revised, with successive editions for areas undergoing more change on the ground."
A reflection on America. In the mid 90's I had an American girlfriend and spent some time over there.
Leaving Heathrow was a tedious security nightmare as it wasn't long after the paramilitaries of an actual UK fascist party had shelled Heathrow.
On the return leg the airport security was virtudlly non existent. The mainly domestic airport basically had the security of a bus station and my then girlfrend (alas ex by the end of the trip) accompanied me into the depdrture lounge international departures gate, and said goodbye at the gate to the plane, where the international gate had a security measure the rest did not, a metal detector hoop. Having experienced Heathrow a fortnight before the phrase "Are they mad" sprang to mind. Alas correctly.
Anyway, with US leave amounting to 10 days a year I had a fair bit of time on my own while she was at work.
I took a 48 hour trip to Washington and visited congress where you could basically wander round the place fairly freely short of going into the private offices and debating chamber. I had lunch in one of the restaurants there with senators and congressmen sitting at adjacent tables discussing various affairs.
Sadly that all ended a few years afterwards and the country has never recovered from the events that ended it.
I do think that if they had followed Thatchers example and treated it as a civil matter, with those involved put on trial for murder before a Jury, an awful lot less damage to the country would have been done.
Reading Pigeons comment about a man wandering around the Inverness count with a toddler on his shoulder, we do appear to have weathered various storms rather better.
A dynamic selection of camera angles at Dingwall Counting Centre reveals a strategically placed balcony, perhaps for the media scrum? A bored correspondent from STV and reporters for both the remaining local newspapers gather to moan about the tedium of it all over coffee.
A sheep wanders unnoticed through the back of the hall. A man texts. A woman takes a nap.
Could there be an announcement. Probably. Who knows? We are, perhaps, beyond caring at this stage.
The Socialist Equality Party contingent attempts to start a chorus of Ten Green Bottles to keep everyone's spirits up, but the assembled masses grind to a half-hearted halt at around Eight Green Bottles. Bottles of whisky are all anybody wants now. Possibly served with diazepam.
BREAKING NEWS
The sheep has been spotted and led to safety.
Further developments will be brought to you as they happen.
The snide and in some cases plain nasty comments on here today about Farage and Reform are quite nasty.
For the first time since the 1661 election, the Cavalier-Anti Exclusionist-Court-Tory-Conservative party has not got a parliamentary monopoly on its wing of politics in England/Great Britain.
And they do not like it, they do not like it one bit, they do not like it up 'em.
I don't think the comments about Farage are snide. I think they are openly and directly hostile.
And most of the rest of the comments on here have been about ways of addressing the concerns of those who feel so abandoned by the main parties that they turn to Farage as nothing else has worked.
Very few (if any) have been hostile to those people. Today, at least.
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
I suspect this is based on outdated ideas about the young always being left wing.
Many years ago, my other half wrote a paper for a Tory think-tank on the problem with generalising from "many young people" to "all young people" and the foolishness of abandoning "the youth vote" on that basis.
In a lot of ways the left are now the establishment, at least in terms of culture - to a historically unprecedented degree, so the 'young vote' could react against that.
I think it is even more complicated than that. Who knows what range of views young people will have in 5 years time? What will be the "consensus" views and what the outliers, and whether any or all of those will overlap with existing political blocs?
Now is a great time for the Conservatives to do their periodic chameleon thing and emerge as a party with the practical politics that inspire and shape the next generation, while Labour have to deal with the messy business of being in government.
ETA: for the avoidance of doubt, I do not see who is going to kick that process off. But I live in hope.
My local school (friend is a teacher there) did an election which included pupils and staff. Reform got the most votes and Labour second. Some of the teachers there are mortified.
It gives me hope for the future, that no mater what indoctrination they've had in their schooling, when given the opportunity they've stuck two fingers up. Nothing more British than that.
Having just decried opinion polling I thought I'd take a look at previous governments and their 'honeymoon' post GE or otherwise, to see how long SKS might have before he starts to smell a bit musty
1992 - Major's government did not have much of a honeymoon but held the general lead for a few months and it all went south by the turn of the year into 1993 after Black Wednesday
1997 - 18 months of sky high approval and big leads before a falling back into a deficit during the fuel protests but big leads again afterwards, the only government that maintained approval throughout really
2001 - probably held approval at election levels until 6 months after Sept 11 2001 then a falling back to lower single figure leads into the election
2005 - no honeymoon until Brown who got a brief 3-4 month stint as popular before complete collapse
2010 - coalition did not get a honeymoon, LDs immediately lost vote share and Tories held on at GE level for a few months until Milibands election then honeymoon was over and polling deficits
2015 - the new majority Con government did not get a honeymoon but maintained a general lead until the EU referendum then May got a delayed honeymoon which she blew on
2017 - no Honeymoon, Boris got a get the job done boost into
2019 - brief honeymoon of 3 months or so then Covid, chaos, Barnard Castle, Eat out to spread it about and the rest
2024....... he's got till Christmas at best to seal the deal and push out in front like Blair '97, that's not long to turn the ship around from a 34% vote
The snide and in some cases plain nasty comments on here today about Farage and Reform are quite nasty.
For the first time since the 1661 election, the Cavalier-Anti Exclusionist-Court-Tory-Conservative party has not got a parliamentary monopoly on its wing of politics in England/Great Britain.
And they do not like it, they do not like it one bit, they do not like it up 'em.
The issue you have is that Farage and Reform are quite nasty. Farage has proven himself nasty many times in the past (e.g. with the breastfeeding stuff he said a decade ago, and which was much discussed on here), and the 'views' of some of the candidates before the GE. The ones he said people should still vote for...
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
The Tories' big mistake was not changing polling station opening hours to 10am to 3pm (for the welfare of the staff, you understand: shorter working day, no counting all through the night,) and restricting postal ballots to the infirm (disabled, in hospital, ELDERLY.)
If you're going to gerrymander, make a proper job of it.
Pungent PB Pundit Punditry - NOTE that in proper, that is American, usage, "gerrymander" refers ONLY to manipulation of GEOGRAPHIC boundaries of legislative constituencies and to NONE of the ways you cite for suppressing voter turnout.
Coming perhaps late to the discussion but whilst I oppose PR in the form most people mean it (propotionality for the parties) I do think TSE's idea of a two stage referendum and the way it would be set out is sensible. This is a system that should be used in any future referendums for changes where there are multiple possible outcomes.
Coming perhaps late to the discussion but whilst I oppose PR in the form most people mean it (propotionality for the parties) I do think TSE's idea of a two stage referendum and the way it would be set out is sensible. This is a system that should be used in any future referendums for changes where there are multiple possible outcomes.
Stupid question but why not just hold a one-stage AV referendum with the status quo and some alternatives?
Alas, no pics of the ballots, little drawings, etc.
The tension is building towards a crescendo at the Dingwall Counting Centre... Unfortunately the live stream is shite:
"Due to the use if [sic] satellite technology, the stream may buffer, please be patient the stream will return"
One suspects that the satellite "technology" is of ex-Soviet vintage. On loan from Mr V Putin, Moscow.
But in the short intervals when the images are actually moving, it's gripping stuff. Rivals the England football team for entertainment and sheer flair.
They shouldn't have tried all that blue Skye thinking.
Commentator promoting the highlights program later tonight. That's going to be a challenge so far.
Maybe they can switch to Dingwall instead.
A dangerous suggestion. The high octane thrills of the Dingwall Counting Centre may not be suitable for the very young, or viewers of a nervous disposition.
Nobody could be excited by an England performance.
Are the LibDems going to do one of those wanky Shadow Shadow Cabinets?
Give then their day in the sun. A few weeks ago their entire parliamentary party could fit in a couple of taxis.
Tories ought to be worrying about their own wanky shadow cabinet rather than other parties' efforts.
If it's anything like their actual cabinets, then a long period of reflection is in order.
They have been known to invent nonexistent official Loyal Oppositions and Shadow Cabinets. Vide R. Davidson at Holyrood (where there is no such thing).
The situation in Inverness is getting increasingly bizarre. How long do they need to count the votes?
Apparently something more serious has gone wrong. How serious, I don't know, but something that should not have happened.
Maybe they'll have to re-run the election.
One guess: a prankster arrived at the polling station with fake ballot papers in their pocket and managed to post them in the ballot box without anyone noticing.
On the 1987 election I think David Dimbleby mentioned that someone in a constituency like West Ham set their ballot paper on fire with a cigarette lighter and then attempted to post it in the ballot box in order to destroy other peoples' votes. I can't remember whether they were successful or not, probably not, since the election there wasn't invalidated.
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
The Tories' big mistake was not changing polling station opening hours to 10am to 3pm (for the welfare of the staff, you understand: shorter working day, no counting all through the night,) and restricting postal ballots to the infirm (disabled, in hospital, ELDERLY.)
If you're going to gerrymander, make a proper job of it.
Pungent PB Pundit Punditry - NOTE that in proper, that is American, usage, "gerrymander" refers ONLY to manipulation of GEOGRAPHIC boundaries of legislative constituencies and to NONE of the ways you cite for suppressing voter turnout.
Are the LibDems going to do one of those wanky Shadow Shadow Cabinets?
Give then their day in the sun. A few weeks ago their entire parliamentary party could fit in a couple of taxis.
Tories ought to be worrying about their own wanky shadow cabinet rather than other parties' efforts.
If it's anything like their actual cabinets, then a long period of reflection is in order.
When Major stood down after 1997, he had an interim Shadow Cabinet while the process to elect Hague happened; basically the survivors from his last Cabinet doubled up to fill the gaps left by his landslide defeat.
A sensible strategy for Sunak to follow? It would presumably really annoy Jenrick and Braverman, which is always a good thing.
Shouldn't Sunak just do the minimum possible reshuffle? Have the surviving cabinet ministers shadow their old posts and promote up a Minister of State if the old cabinet minister isn't there. Then whoever wins the leadership can organise a proper team. There seems no point for getting someone in post to learn a new brief only to be replaced in the autumn.
Dingwall Counting Centre latest: empty lectern and static noise coming through the live stream audio. A declaration could be just weeks away...
I am glad the SNP have lost in the West Highlands.
I am a little disappointed though that it's Drew Hendry, of whom I know no particular ill, rather than that loathsome creep Ian Blackford on the receiving end.
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
The Tories' big mistake was not changing polling station opening hours to 10am to 3pm (for the welfare of the staff, you understand: shorter working day, no counting all through the night,) and restricting postal ballots to the infirm (disabled, in hospital, ELDERLY.)
If you're going to gerrymander, make a proper job of it.
Pungent PB Pundit Punditry - NOTE that in proper, that is American, usage, "gerrymander" refers ONLY to manipulation of GEOGRAPHIC boundaries of legislative constituencies and to NONE of the ways you cite for suppressing voter turnout.
They had about 15 hours to prepare for it and then I couldn't hear the figures because it sounded as if a baby was closer to the microphone than the person announcing the results.
They had about 15 hours to prepare for it and then I couldn't hear the figures because it sounded as if a baby was closer to the microphone than the person announcing the results.
They had about 15 hours to prepare for it and then I couldn't hear the figures because it sounded as if a baby was closer to the microphone than the person announcing the results.
So Blackford did turn up?
No. Had previously said he would not due to previous "unchangeable" personal commitment (my guess is a wedding).
Probably the best Tory result of the election (apart from Leicester East) was in Keighley & Ilkley. Tories held it by about 1,500 votes with a swing of 7%.
Alas, no pics of the ballots, little drawings, etc.
The tension is building towards a crescendo at the Dingwall Counting Centre... Unfortunately the live stream is shite:
"Due to the use if [sic] satellite technology, the stream may buffer, please be patient the stream will return"
One suspects that the satellite "technology" is of ex-Soviet vintage. On loan from Mr V Putin, Moscow.
But in the short intervals when the images are actually moving, it's gripping stuff. Rivals the England football team for entertainment and sheer flair.
They shouldn't have tried all that blue Skye thinking.
Skye is blue. Clouds are white That's why God's a Wednesdayite But is nothing to do with the delay in the declaration
The only problem with the end of the Dingwall Counting Centre art performance is that more of my attention will now be occupied by background noise from Dusseldorf. Oh, the painfulness of it all.
Can anyone post the result for those of us unfortunate enough not to have live stream?
The audio was dreadful, but I think the result was something like LD 18k, SNP 16k, others nowhere. Beyond that, we'll have to wait for someone to post it to a reputable web source.
Probably the best Tory result of the election (apart from Leicester East) was in Keighley & Ilkley. Tories held it by about 1,500 votes with a swing of 7%.
West London generally especially around Harrow was less disastrous and Darlington, Redcar and Midds South and Cleve East were better than average results. Darlington was the closest they came to a red wall hold where Reform stood
Can anyone post the result for those of us unfortunate enough not to have live stream?
The audio was dreadful, but I think the result was something like LD 18k, SNP 16k, others nowhere. Beyond that, we'll have to wait for someone to post it to a reputable web source.
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
I suspect this is based on outdated ideas about the young always being left wing.
Many years ago, my other half wrote a paper for a Tory think-tank on the problem with generalising from "many young people" to "all young people" and the foolishness of abandoning "the youth vote" on that basis.
In a lot of ways the left are now the establishment, at least in terms of culture - to a historically unprecedented degree, so the 'young vote' could react against that.
I think it is even more complicated than that. Who knows what range of views young people will have in 5 years time? What will be the "consensus" views and what the outliers, and whether any or all of those will overlap with existing political blocs?
Now is a great time for the Conservatives to do their periodic chameleon thing and emerge as a party with the practical politics that inspire and shape the next generation, while Labour have to deal with the messy business of being in government.
ETA: for the avoidance of doubt, I do not see who is going to kick that process off. But I live in hope.
My local school (friend is a teacher there) did an election which included pupils and staff. Reform got the most votes and Labour second. Some of the teachers there are mortified.
It gives me hope for the future, that no mater what indoctrination they've had in their schooling, when given the opportunity they've stuck two fingers up. Nothing more British than that.
The panic about Reform is just really entertaining. They just seem to drive people completely mad.
I'm absolutely opposed to extending the franchise to allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote. They are children.
18 is the age of majority for a reason.
I don't agree with it, but let them if it makes them feel better.
We tried rebalancing constituencies and introducing voter ID.
It made absolutely no difference in the end.
The Tories' big mistake was not changing polling station opening hours to 10am to 3pm (for the welfare of the staff, you understand: shorter working day, no counting all through the night,) and restricting postal ballots to the infirm (disabled, in hospital, ELDERLY.)
If you're going to gerrymander, make a proper job of it.
Pungent PB Pundit Punditry - NOTE that in proper, that is American, usage, "gerrymander" refers ONLY to manipulation of GEOGRAPHIC boundaries of legislative constituencies and to NONE of the ways you cite for suppressing voter turnout.
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A sheep wanders unnoticed through the back of the hall. A man texts. A woman takes a nap.
Could there be an announcement. Probably. Who knows? We are, perhaps, beyond caring at this stage.
The Socialist Equality Party contingent attempts to start a chorus of Ten Green Bottles to keep everyone's spirits up, but the assembled masses grind to a half-hearted halt at around Eight Green Bottles. Bottles of whisky are all anybody wants now. Possibly served with diazepam.
"New Ordnance Survey National Grid Maps of England and Wales, 1940s-1970s Although not relating
to Scotland (which has had maps at these scales online already for some years), NLS has recently put online
137,859 OS National Grid maps of England and Wales at 1:1,250/1:2,500 scales (1940s-1970s). These are
the most detailed maps published by Ordnance Survey of England and Wales after the Second World War.
All urban areas with more than about 20,000 inhabitants were mapped at 1:1,250 scale, and all other
inhabited areas and cultivated land were mapped at 1:2,500. At 1:1,250 scale, most detached features
covering 1 square metre or larger are usually shown. These maps are excellent for viewing divisions between
houses, house numbers, public and industrial buildings, railways, pavements, streets and street names,
parkland and trees, paths, spot heights, and all administrative urban and rural boundaries. These maps were
continually revised, with successive editions for areas undergoing more change on the ground."
https://maps.nls.uk/additions/#163
Dissolution follows immediately and we start again.
Leaving Heathrow was a tedious security nightmare as it wasn't long after the paramilitaries of an actual UK fascist party had shelled Heathrow.
On the return leg the airport security was virtudlly non existent. The mainly domestic airport basically had the security of a bus station and my then girlfrend (alas ex by the end of the trip) accompanied me into the depdrture lounge international departures gate, and said goodbye at the gate to the plane, where the international gate had a security measure the rest did not, a metal detector hoop. Having experienced Heathrow a fortnight before the phrase "Are they mad" sprang to mind. Alas correctly.
Anyway, with US leave amounting to 10 days a year I had a fair bit of time on my own while she was at work.
I took a 48 hour trip to Washington and visited congress where you could basically wander round the place fairly freely short of going into the private offices and debating chamber. I had lunch in one of the restaurants there with senators and congressmen sitting at adjacent tables discussing various affairs.
Sadly that all ended a few years afterwards and the country has never recovered from the events that ended it.
I do think that if they had followed Thatchers example and treated it as a civil matter, with those involved put on trial for murder before a Jury, an awful lot less damage to the country would have been done.
Reading Pigeons comment about a man wandering around the Inverness count with a toddler on his shoulder, we do appear to have weathered various storms rather better.
The sheep has been spotted and led to safety.
Further developments will be brought to you as they happen.
And most of the rest of the comments on here have been about ways of addressing the concerns of those who feel so abandoned by the main parties that they turn to Farage as nothing else has worked.
Very few (if any) have been hostile to those people. Today, at least.
It gives me hope for the future, that no mater what indoctrination they've had in their schooling, when given the opportunity they've stuck two fingers up. Nothing more British than that.
1992 - Major's government did not have much of a honeymoon but held the general lead for a few months and it all went south by the turn of the year into 1993 after Black Wednesday
1997 - 18 months of sky high approval and big leads before a falling back into a deficit during the fuel protests but big leads again afterwards, the only government that maintained approval throughout really
2001 - probably held approval at election levels until 6 months after Sept 11 2001 then a falling back to lower single figure leads into the election
2005 - no honeymoon until Brown who got a brief 3-4 month stint as popular before complete collapse
2010 - coalition did not get a honeymoon, LDs immediately lost vote share and Tories held on at GE level for a few months until Milibands election then honeymoon was over and polling deficits
2015 - the new majority Con government did not get a honeymoon but maintained a general lead until the EU referendum then May got a delayed honeymoon which she blew on
2017 - no Honeymoon, Boris got a get the job done boost into
2019 - brief honeymoon of 3 months or so then Covid, chaos, Barnard Castle, Eat out to spread it about and the rest
2024....... he's got till Christmas at best to seal the deal and push out in front like Blair '97, that's not long to turn the ship around from a 34% vote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
Maybe they can switch to Dingwall instead.
It is entirely possible that the final will never be completed, on account of the players declining to move at all.
A performance art event. Standing still for 90 minutes. No, lying prone and motionless on the pitch, as if dead. A commentary upon the horrors of war.
If it's anything like their actual cabinets, then a long period of reflection is in order.
Nobody could be excited by an England performance.
LECTERN ALERT!!!!
More updates as we get them.
Not based on current evidence, but we all make mistakes.
One guess: a prankster arrived at the polling station with fake ballot papers in their pocket and managed to post them in the ballot box without anyone noticing.
On the 1987 election I think David Dimbleby mentioned that someone in a constituency like West Ham set their ballot paper on fire with a cigarette lighter and then attempted to post it in the ballot box in order to destroy other peoples' votes. I can't remember whether they were successful or not, probably not, since the election there wasn't invalidated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homes_for_votes_scandal
A sensible strategy for Sunak to follow? It would presumably really annoy Jenrick and Braverman, which is always a good thing.
I am a little disappointed though that it's Drew Hendry, of whom I know no particular ill, rather than that loathsome creep Ian Blackford on the receiving end.
But should we have such blatant drug use on the national broadcaster? There may be pensioners watching.
Make sure you're near a loo. Better still, wear Tena, so you don't have to get up and miss anything.
More news as we get it.
You have some of the highest paid players in the world unable to take a decent corner.
My kitten is enjoying it.
Though dishonorable mention to Tories for creative innovation!
LIB DEM GAIN!!!
Vote details lost amidst choking live stream. Thank you Highland Council/Mr Putin.
Thank God that's over. From Dingwall Counting Centre, good afternoon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001308
Clouds are white
That's why God's a Wednesdayite
But is nothing to do with the delay in the declaration
Think it may need more work
Well bookmaker error and only £20. Settled one of my constituency losers as a winner.
LD 37.8 (+22.7) 18,159
SNP 33.3 (-15.4) 15,999
Lab 13.0 (+3.6) 6,246
Ref 6.1 (+4.1) 2,934
Con 5.2 (-18.1) 2,502
Grn 4.3 (+2.9) 2,058
Soc 0.4 178
maj. 2,160, turnout 61.7%
I owe you an apology, Andy. The proceedings at Inverness were infinitely more exciting than the football. Can't wait to watch the highlights later.
SNP 15,999
That's all I heard. Waiting for the BBC to update.
https://election.news.sky.com/elections/general-election-2024/inverness-skye-and-west-ross-335
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1809634601062560088
Inverness percentages and votes
LD 37.8 (+22.7) 18,159
SNP 33.3 (-15.4) 15,999
Lab 13.0 (+3.6) 6,246
Ref 6.1 (+4.1) 2,934
Con 5.2 (-18.1) 2,502
Grn 4.3 (+2.9) 2,058
Soc 0.4 (+0.4) 178
maj. 2,160, turnout 61.7%
https://election.news.sky.com/elections/general-election-2024/inverness-skye-and-west-ross-335
It's still not as misused a term as 'FPTP' though...
SNP 15999
Lab 6246
Ref 2934
Con 2502
Grn 2038
Soc Equ 178
LD maj 2160
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/S14000094
So the final Lab score is 9,704,655 according to the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results