Houghton & Sunderland have declared - 26 yr old woman - Bridget Phillipson (labour) 19,137 - but 12% less than last election!) - 8.4% swing to conservatives

She's so young!  3 women so far - OH wants to stay up til 2.30!  At least he is still awake in front of the tv - he usually drops off after quarter of an hour.
What about all these people who have been turned away because the polling stations couldn't handle the numbers turning up in the evening - it is not as if an election has never been held before!  What on earth happened?

I did the poll yesterday and we had a 75% turnout and so may young people and first time voters. I got in about 12pm from a 4:30am start so im a weary today.

There sick of Brown but confused with the choice, so its a hung parliament and the Nick Clegg effect did not last.

She must be wonderful because she has a great surname LOL!

Oh I don't know - in my local constituency lib-dem did very well.  This is a staunch labour area - met the candidate last week while I was out walking the dog - day after GB's awful gaffe - didn't even know his name or face ( I spoke to him first - could tell he was the candidate with suit and rosette) he has spent so little time electioneering - certainly didn't bother to come along our lane - they have always said that if labour put up a donkey here then it would still get in. How complacent can you get!  This is a wake-up call for them - only a few thousand votes in it.  The lib-dem candidate has put himself about for a long time before this election - he is well known and outspoken.

Talking about names - isn't the new president of Nigeria's name wonderful - Goodluck Jonathan.  He will probabally need it too.

I voted for the first time ever and Im 26 so the Government certainly did target us young uns (Am I still allowed to class myself as a young un even though Im on the wrong side of 25?!)

> I voted for the first time ever and Im 26 so the Government certainly did target us young uns (Am I still allowed to class myself as a young un even though Im on the wrong side of 25?!)

My son is 26 - so yes, you are very young :) :) :)

Daisy

> Oh I don't know - in my local constituency lib-dem did very well.  This is a staunch labour area

Same as my area - never been anything other than Labour. This time Lib Dem got in with 5000+ more votes than Labour.