UPDATE (10:10 p.m.): Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg has lost his seat.
"You live by the sword, you die by the sword" - Nick Clegg's parting words as he loses his seathttps://t.co/YMVJP13SGk #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/Oj0z0F1gVn
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 9, 2017
UPDATE (9:51 p.m.): Here's the latest numbers.
Update 2:48am: Latest seat totals by party #GE2017. See full results: https://t.co/XyPZZkE1tt pic.twitter.com/AkFDPky9AA
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 9, 2017
UPDATE (9:14 p.m.): The Conservatives have lost two seats, and Labour has gained four.
Update 2:08am: Latest seat totals by party #GE2017. See full results: https://t.co/XyPZZkE1tt pic.twitter.com/YX38f2DY3c
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 9, 2017
UPDATE (8:23 p.m.): Labour has gained a seat from SNP.
Rutherglen: LAB gain from SNP #GE2017. Full results: https://t.co/XyPZZkE1tt pic.twitter.com/k9QzupjgA5
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 9, 2017
UPDATE (7:38 p.m.): Results are still trickling in. There have been ten seats called so far--all holds.
UPDATE (6:15 p.m.): The first official results are in, and Labour has held a seat.
Labour's Chi Onwurah wins first seat of the night - Newcastle Central
Full results live: https://t.co/jpy6wse1Rp #bbcelection #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/SCZM9cjWcR
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 8, 2017
Further, something...interesting...is happening with the polls.
Houghton+Sunderland was expected from exits to swing 4% to Labour. Instead it swung 3.5% to Conservatives.
Something odd is going on here.
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) June 8, 2017
Senior Tories have now crunched their own numbers, and are convinced the exit poll is wrong. "It simply just doesn’t add up" #GE2017
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) June 8, 2017
Polls have closed in the U.K.'s snap general election, and exit polling indicates that Theresa May and the Conservative Party will remain in power as the largest party, but may not have a majority in parliament. The Scottish Nationalist Party did not do as well as expected and suffered big losses.
BREAKING: UK exit poll projects Conservatives win 314 of 650 seats in Parliament, Labour with 266.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2017
BREAKING: UK exit poll projects Scottish nationalists lose big, in blow to plans for independence vote.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 8, 2017
If these exit polls are accurate, this means that there will be a hung parliament. A party must win 326 seats for a majority.
This post will be updated as results come in.
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