Election results thread

The polls are closed, results should start coming in a couple of hours. Those hardly souls stayiong up all night please use this thread to discuss the results as they come in. Eyes will be on the millions of actual votes cast tonight, but for the record tonight's YouGov/Sun poll is CON 32%, LAB 41%, LD 9%, UKIP 9%. Don't, needless to say, expect the local votes to necessarily reflect that - people vote differently in local elections than they do in Westminster ones!

UPDATE: Since people keep asking, there is no exit poll, or at least, not in the sense of a proper exit poll interviewing people on the ground as they leave polling stations. These days these are only conducted for general elections. Last year YouGov did do an "on the day" poll, but I don't know if that has been repeated this year.

UPDATE2: And again, since people keep asking, the first results should be around about midnight.

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