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11.55 pm The BBC has – belatedly – recognised the story that’s been staring them in the face … thousands of voters disenfranchised: Hundreds of voters across the country have been turned away from polling stations as long queues formed ahead of the 2200 BST voting deadline. Turnout was predicted to be higher than recent elections, including 2005. There [...]

Much of the focus, understandably enough, has been on Nick Clegg’s TV debates performances boosting the party’s standing. But actually that’s not what has most impressed me about the Lib Dem campaign: it’s been the disciplined professionalism shown by Lib Dem HQ. Let’s start off with the two key campaign themes … Change that works [...]

Just two hours until the exit polls have their say, but if you can’t wait for that … Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.com site has run through pretty much every poll result permutation to come up with a range of projections as to how the House of Commons will look on 7th May. Here’s their official final [...]

You have until 9.55 pm this evening, Thursday 6th May, to make your predictions about the outcome of today’s general election. All you have to do is offer up your best guesses for the following four questions: 1. What will be the shares of the popular UK vote recorded by [...]

It’s not just been the public making up its mind over the last 24 hours – a number of political bloggers have also declared who they’ll be voting for in the last day. Mostly, this is along party lines, as you might expect. But some have stood out from the crowd – here are three [...]

Okay, so the heady days of ‘Cleggmania’ – with the Lib Dems briefly in first place in the polls as high as 34% – did not last until election day itself. Few of us expected it to, really, though it was delicious while it lasted. The fact that every single one of the nine final [...]

Lib Dem Voice reported eight of the final day polls yesterday – there was just one last polling company, Ipsos MORI, due, and their figures have now been published by the London Evening Standard: CON 36%(nc), LAB 29%(-1), LIB DEM 27%(+4) The average of these nine final polls is reported by the Standard as follows, with changes [...]

One of the most amazing – and welcome – aspects of this election campaign has been how Nick Clegg has completely stolen the show, as Jonathan Freedland noted in his Guardian article yesterday. But it’s not just at home that ‘Cleggmania’ has been in evidence: the foreign press in particular have been fascinated by his [...]

The Westmoreland Gazette reports the good news for the very splendid Tim Farron’s re-election hopes: TIM Farron’s campaign to retain Westmorland and Lonsdale has received an unlikely boost from his former Labour opponent in the 2005 General Election. In an open letter to voters, John Reardon urged people not to support his old party but instead to [...]

Okay, well this is it – the final polls of the campaign are published tonight. Here’s what’s in so far: YouGov in The Sun … CON 35%(nc), LAB 28%(-2), LIB DEM 28%(+4) Opinium in the Express … CON 35%(+2), LAB 27%(-1), LIB DEM 26%(-1) TNS BMRB … CON 33%(-1), LAB 27%(nc), LIB DEM 29%(-1) Populus in The Times … [...]