It is approaching 3 00 a m here in London and in the words of Ed Miliband Britain s secretary of state for energy the people have spoken but we don t quite know what they ve said The Conservative Party had 116 seats on its so-called lsquo hit list rsquo the seats they thought they had a ch

Results continue to come in but they are uneven Earlier actual results indicated that the Conservatives were heading for an overall majority Yet the Tories are having trouble in the southwest of England wresting seats form the Liberal Democrats The Tory advance may have been checked in the south

More results coming in now The final outcome is far from certain though the swing toward the Conservatives appears to be stronger then the exit poll suggested This means that a hung Parliament might be avoided Meanwhile the high turnout has caught election officials off guard People have been

The second and third results have arrived They are also wins for Labour but there has been a sizable lsquo swing rsquo in the vote to the Conservatives lsquo Swing rsquo is the measure of the percentage change of vote from one election to another The swing in these first results is about 8

The first real results are in No surprise The Labour candidate in the Sunderland solidly Labour constituency has prevailed The real news is that the percentage change in the share of the vote for the major parties indicates that at least so far the exit poll is correct Now what will happen

The first and only exit poll has been reported by the BBC Seats in the House of Commons Conservative 307 Labour 255 Liberal Democrat 59 nbsp If this result holds it means that there will be a hung parliament as the Conservatives are 19 seats short of a majority Keep in mind however that exi