It would seem that some authorities take an excessive time to obtain and count our votes in the UK General Elections, don’t you think? How comes it takes only an hour or so in some places and some twelve hours in others, eh?
Logic makes one suspect that it is down to the diverse size of the constituency and or the number of voters, but in practice it doesn’t seem to be, does it? No, it seems much more to be down to a will, detailed planning, a clear setting of objectives, use of tools, experience, continuity, and contingencies arrangement?
That is why we find that Houghton and Sunderland South constituency and its predecessor seat of Sunderland South was the first one to declare its result, in the four general elections from 1992-2005, plus in 2010 and in 2015, and was scheduled to in 2017 but apparently was pipped to the post by Newcastle upon Tyne Central.
In this Country we don’t thank goodness have a computer machine voting result, but by the actual counting of paper slips and that takes organisation, people, and time – but at least it is exciting if you are around. Sometimes, if the result is extremely close there has to be one or more ‘recounts’ and that naturally delays the matter of a declaration – but increases the thrill of election events, wouldn’t you say?
THIS ALPHABETICAL LIST BELOW FROM 2017 GENERAL ELECTION SCHEDULED TIMES SHOULD ENABLE YOU TO GET AN ‘IDEA’ OF WHEN A RESULT IS LIKELY TO BE DECLARED IN YOUR OWN CONSTITUENCY, EITHER LATE ON THE THURSDAY EVENING OR OVERNIGHT ON THE FRIDAY
16 bellwether constituencies are highlighted
[In general elections, where the local result has a habit of matching the national result they are known as “bellwethers”]
Aberavon, 3am
Aberconwy, 3am
Aberdeen North, 4am
Aberdeen South, 4am
Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine, 4am
Airdrie & Shotts, 3am
Aldershot, 3.30am
Aldridge-Brownhills, 4am
Altrincham & Sale West, 5am
Alyn & Deeside, 3am
Amber Valley, 3am
Angus, 2am
Antrim East, 2am
Antrim North 1am
Antrim South, 2.30am
Arfon, 2.30am
Argyll & Bute, 4.30am
Arundel & South Downs, 6am
Ashfield, 5am
Ashford, 5am
Ashton Under Lyne, 7am
Aylesbury, 5.30am
Ayr Carrick & Cumnock, 4am
Ayrshire Central, 4am
Ayrshire North & Arran, 3am
Banbury, 5am
Banff & Buchan, 4am
Barking, 3am
Barnsley Central, 3am
Barnsley East, 3am
Barrow & Furness, 4am
Basildon & Billericay, 3am
Basildon South & Thurrock East, 3am
Basingstoke, 5am
Bassetlaw, Bath, 4am
Batley & Spen, 5am
Battersea 1am
Beaconsfield, 5am
Beckenham, 4am
Bedford, 5am
Bedfordshire Mid, 5am
Bedfordshire North East, 6am
Bedfordshire South West, 6am
Belfast East, 2am
Belfast North, 3am
Belfast South, 3am
Belfast West, 3am
Bermondsey & Old Southwark, 4am
Berwickshire, 5.30am
Berwick-upon-Tweed, 12pm
Bethnal Green & Bow, 4am
Beverley & Holderness, 4am
Bexhill & Battle, 5am
Bexleyheath & Crayford, 3am
Birkenhead, 4am
Birmingham Edgbaston, 5.30am
Birmingham Erdington, 4.30am
Birmingham Hall Green, 6am
Birmingham Hodge Hill, 5am
Birmingham Ladywood, 5am
Birmingham Northfield, 4am
Birmingham Perry Barr, 6am
Birmingham Selly Oak, 5am
Birmingham Yardley, 5am
Bishop Auckland, 3am
Blackburn, 3am
Blackley & Broughton, 4am
Blackpool North & Cleveleys, 4.30am
Blackpool South, 4.30am
Blaenau Gwent, 2am
Blaydon, 3.30am
Blyth Valley, 12pm
Bognor Regis & Littlehampton, 6am
Bolsover, 4.30am
Bolton North East, 3am
Bolton South East, 3am
Bolton West, Bosworth, 4am
Bootle, 3am
Boston & Skegness, 5am
Bournemouth East, 3am
Bournemouth West, 3am
Bracknell, 4am
Bradford East, 5am
Bradford South, 6am
Bradford West, 5am
Braintree, 5am
Brecon & Radnorshire, 3am
Brent Central, 3am
Brent North, 3am
Brentford & Isleworth, 5am
Brentwood & Ongar, 4am
Bridgend, 5am
Bridgwater & Somerset West, 6am
Brigg & Goole, 5am
Brighton Kemptown, 6am
Brighton Pavilion, 6am
Bristol East, 5am
Bristol North West, 3am
Bristol South, 5am
Bristol West, 5am
Broadland, 6.30am
Bromley & Chislehurst, 4am
Bromsgrove, 6am
Broxbourne, 1.30am
Broxtowe, 4am
Buckingham, 5.30am
Burnley, 2.30am
Burton, 3am
Bury North, 2am
Bury South, 2am
Bury St Edmunds, 4.30am
Caerphilly, 2.30am
Caithness Sutherland & Easter Ross, 5am
Calder Valley, 5am
Camberwell & Peckham, 4am
Camborne & Redruth, 6am
Cambridge, 5am
Cambridgeshire North East, 6am
Cambridgeshire North West, 2am
Cambridgeshire South East, 5.30am
Cambridgeshire South, 3.30am
Cannock Chase, 4am
Canterbury, 3am
Cardiff Central, 4am
Cardiff North, 4am
Cardiff South & Penarth, 4am
Cardiff West, 4am
Carlisle, 3am
Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, 2am
Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South, 4am
Carshalton & Wallington, 4am
Castle Point, 2.30am
Ceredigion, 2am
Charnwood, 5am
Chatham & Aylesford, 6am
Cheadle, Chester, 5am
Chelmsford, 4am
Chelsea & Fulham, 4am
Cheltenham, 4am
Chesham & Amersham, 4am
Chesterfield, 4am
Chingford & Woodford Green, 4am
Chippenham, 7am
Chipping Barnet, 4.30am
Chorley, 3am
Christchurch, 3am
Chryston & Bellshill, 3am
Cities of London & Westminster, 3.30am
City of, Chichester, 5am
Clacton, 3.30am
Cleethorpes, 3am
Clwyd South, 2am
Clwyd West, 3am
Clydesdale & Tweeddale, 3.30am
Coatbridge, 3am
Colchester, 4am
Colne Valley, 5am
Congleton, 7am
Copeland, 4am
Corby, 4.30am
Cornwall North, 6.30am
Cornwall South East 9am
Cotswolds The, 7am
Coventry North East, 3am
Coventry North West, 3am
Coventry South, Crawley, 3am
Crewe & Nantwich, 7am
Croydon Central, 4am
Croydon North, 4am
Croydon South, 4am
Cumbernauld Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East, 4am
Cynon Valley, 3am
Dagenham & Rainham, 3am
Darlington, 1.30am
Dartford, 5am
Daventry, 5am
Delyn 3am
Denton & Reddish, 6.30am
Derby North, 6am
Derby South, 3am
Derbyshire Dales, 5am
Derbyshire Mid, 4am
Derbyshire North East, 6am
Derbyshire South, 3am
Devizes, 6.30am
Devon Central 7.30am
Devon East, 6am
Devon North, 5am
Devon South West, 6am
Devon West & Torridge 8am
Dewsbury, 5am
Don Valley, 4am
Doncaster Central, 5am
Doncaster North, 5am
Dorset Mid & Poole North, 6am
Dorset North, 6am
Dorset South, 5am
Dorset West, 5am
Dover, 3.30am
Down North, 2am
Down South, 5am
Dudley North, 4am
Dudley South, 4am
Dulwich & West Norwood, 3.30am
Dumfries & Galloway, 3.30am
Dumfriesshire, 3.30am
Dunbartonshire East, 3am
Dunbartonshire West, 3am
Dundee East, 2.30am
Dundee West, 2.30am
Dunfermline & Fife West, 3am
Durham City of, 3.30am
Durham North West, 3.30am
Durham North, 3.30am
Dwyfor Meirionnydd, 3am
Ealing Central & Acton, 3am
Ealing North, 3am
Ealing Southall, 3am
Easington, 3am
East Ham, 4am
East Kilbride, 2am
East Lothian, 3am
Eastbourne, 4.30am
Eastleigh, 3am
Eddisbury, 4.30am
Edinburgh East, 4am
Edinburgh North & Leith, 4am
Edinburgh South West, 4am
Edinburgh South, 4am
Edinburgh West, 4am
Edmonton, 3.30am
Ellesmere Port & Neston, 5am
Elmet & Rothwell, 5.30am
Eltham, 4am
Enfield North, 3.30am
Enfield Southgate, 3am
Epping Forest, 2am
Epsom & Ewell, 5am
Erewash, 3am
Erith & Thamesmead, 4am
Esher & Walton, 4am
ewkesbury, 6am
Exeter, 3am
Falkirk, 2am
Fareham, 2am
Faversham & Kent Mid, 5am
Feltham & Heston, 4am
Fermanagh & South Tyrone, 5am
Fife North East, 2am
Filton & Bradley Stoke, 4.30am
Finchley & Golders Green, 5am
Folkestone & Hythe, 4am
Forest of Dean, 6am
Foyle 1am
Fylde, 4am
Gainsborough, 6am
Garston & Halewood, 4am
Gateshead, 4am
Gedling, 4am
Gillingham & Rainham, 6am
Glasgow Central, 3am
Glasgow East, 3am
Glasgow North East, 3am
Glasgow North West, 3am
Glasgow North, 3am
Glasgow South West, 3am
Glasgow South, 3am
Glenrothes, 2am
Gloucester, 4am
Gordon, 4am
Gosport, 3am
Gower, 4am
Grantham & Stamford, 5am
Gravesham, 5.30am
Great Grimsby, 3.30am
Great Yarmouth, 5.30am
Greenwich & Woolwich, 4am
Guildford, 5am
Hackney North & Stoke Newington, 4am
Hackney South & Shoreditch, 6am
Halesowen & Rowley Regis, 4am
Halifax, 5am
Haltemprice & Howden, 4am
Halton, 2am
Hammersmith, 3am
Hampshire East, 4.30am
Hampshire North East, 5am
Hampshire North West, 4am
Hampstead & Kilburn, 3am
Harborough, 7am
Harlow, 3.30am
Harrogate & Knaresborough, 3am
Harrow East, 5am
Harrow West, 5am
Hartlepool, 2.30am
Harwich & Essex North, 4am
Hastings & Rye, 2am
Havant, 3am
Hayes & Harlington, 4am
Hazel Grove, 5am
Hemel Hempstead, 5.30am
Hemsworth, 5am
Hendon, 4am
Henley, 6am
Hereford & Herefordshire South, 5am
Herefordshire North, 4am
Hertford & Stortford, 4am
Hertfordshire North East, 3am
Hertfordshire South West, 4am
Hertsmere, 4am
Hexham, 5am
Heywood & Middleton, 3.30am
High Peak, 4am
Hitchin & Harpenden, 5am
Holborn & St Pancras, 3am
Hornchurch & Upminster, 4am
Hornsey & Wood Green, 3am
Horsham, 5.30am
Houghton & Sunderland South 11pm
Hove, 5.30am
Huddersfield, 7am
Hull East, Hull North, 3am
Hull West & Hessle, 3am
Huntingdon, 3am
Hyndburn, 3am
Ilford North, 3.30am
Ilford South, 3.30am
Inverclyde, 2.30am
Inverness, 5am
Ipswich, 4am
Isle of Wight, 3am
Islington North, 2.30am
Islington South & Finsbury, 2.30am
Islwyn, 3am
Jarrow, 3am
Keighley, 6am
Kenilworth & Southam, 2am
Kensington, 4am
Kettering 12.30am
Kilmarnock & Loudoun, 2am
Kingston & Surbiton, 5am
Kingswood, 5am
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, 2am
Knowsley, 3am
Lagan Valley, 1.30am
Lanark & Hamilton East, 3am
Lancashire West, 4am
Lancaster & Fleetwood, 6am
Leeds Central, 4.30am
Leeds East, 4.30am
Leeds North East, 5.30am
Leeds North West, 5.30am
Leeds West, 5am
Leicester East, 7am
Leicester South, 6am
Leicester West, 7am
Leicestershire North West, 4am
Leicestershire South, 6am
Leigh, 2.30am
Lewes, 5am
Lewisham Deptford, 4.30am
Lewisham East, 4am
Lewisham West & Penge, 4am
Leyton & Wanstead, 4am
Lichfield, 4am
Lincoln, 3.30am
Linlithgow & Falkirk East, 3.30am
Liverpool Riverside, 4am
Liverpool Walton, 5am
Liverpool Wavertree, 4am
Liverpool West Derby, 4am
Livingston, 3.30am
Llanelli, 2am
Londonderry East, 4am
Loughborough, 5am
Louth & Horncastle, 5am
Ludlow, 2.30am
Luton North, 7am
Luton South, 7am
Macclesfield, 7am
Maidenhead, 4.30am
Maidstone & The Weald, Manchester Central, 5am
Makerfield, 3am
Maldon, 3.30am
Manchester Gorton, 5am
Manchester Withington, 5am
Mansfield, Newbury, 3.30am
Meon Valley, 7am
Meriden, 4am
Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney, 3am
Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East, 5am
Middlesbrough, 3am
Midlothian, 3am
Milton Keynes North, 7am
Milton Keynes South, 6.30am
Mitcham & Morden, 2.30am
Mole Valley, 4.30am
Monmouth, 4am
Montgomeryshire, 2.30am
Moray, 3am
Morecambe & Lunesdale, 6am
Morley & Outwood, 7am
Motherwell & Wishaw, 2.30am
Na h-Eileanan an Iar, 2am
Nairn Badenoch & Strathspey, 5am
Neath, 3am
New Forest East, 5am
New Forest West, 5am
Newark, 5am
Newcastle upon Tyne Central 1am
Newcastle upon Tyne East 1am
Newcastle upon Tyne North, 2am
Newcastle-under-Lyme, 4am
Newport East, 3am
Newport West, 3am
Newry & Armagh, 4.30am
Newton Abbot, 4.30am
Norfolk Mid, 4am
Norfolk North, 5am
Norfolk North West, 6am
Norfolk South West, 6am
Norfolk South, 4am
Normanton, 5am
Northampton North, 3am
Northampton South, 3am
Northamptonshire South, 5am
Norwich North, 5.30am
Norwich South, 4am
Nottingham East, 5am
Nottingham North, 5am
Nottingham South, 5am
Nuneaton 1am
Ochil & Perthshire South, 3am
Ogmore, 4am
Old Bexley & Sidcup, 4am
Oldham East & Saddleworth, 6am
Oldham West & Royton, 5am
Orkney & Shetland, 5am
Orpington, 4am
Oxford East, 2am
Oxford West & Abingdon, 6am
Paisley & Renfrewshire North, 3am
Paisley & Renfrewshire South, 2.30am
Pendle, 4am
Penistone & Stocksbridge, 5am
Penrith & The Border, 3.30am
Perth & Perthshire North, 3am
Peterborough, 2am
Plymouth Moor View, 4am
Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, 4am
Pontefract & Castleford, 5am
Pontypridd, 4am
Poole, 5am
Poplar & Limehouse, 4am
Portsmouth North, 6am
Portsmouth South, 6am
Preseli Pembrokeshire, 4am
Preston, 3.30am
Pudsey, 5am
Putney 1am
Rayleigh & Wickford, 4am
Reading East, 6am
Reading West, , 6am
Redcar, 3.30am
Redditch, 4.30am
Reigate, 3.30am
Renfrewshire East, 3am
Rhondda, 3am
Ribble Valley, 2am
Richmond (Yorks), 5am
Richmond Park, 4am
Rochdale, 3.30am
Rochester & Strood 6aM
Rochford & Southend East, 3am
Romford, 4am
Romsey & Southampton North, 4.30am
Ross, Skye & Lochaber, 5am
Rossendale & Darwen, 4am
Rother Valley, 3am
Rotherham, 3am
Roxburgh & Selkirk, 5.30am
Rugby, 5am
Ruislip Northwood & Pinner, 4am
Runnymede & Weybridge, 4am
Rushcliffe, 5am
Rutherglen & Hamilton West, 2am
Rutland & Melton, 5am
Saffron Walden, 4am
Salford & Eccles, 5am
Salisbury, 4am
Scarborough & Whitby, 4.30am
Scunthorpe, 4am
Sedgefield, 3.30am
Sefton Central, 5am
Selby & Ainsty, 4.30am
Sevenoaks, 4am
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough, 4.30am
Sheffield Central, 4.30am
Sheffield Hallam, 4.30am
Sheffield Heeley, 4.30am
Sheffield South East, 4.30am
Sherwood, 5am
Shipley, 5.30am
Shrewsbury & Atcham, 3.30am
Shropshire North, 4am
Sittingbourne & Sheppey, 5.30am
Skipton & Ripon, 4am
Sleaford & North Hykeham, 5am
Slough, 3.30am
Solihull, 4am
Somerset North East, 5am
Somerset North, 4.30am
Somerton & Frome, 3am
South Holland & The Deepings, 4.30am
South Ribble, 4.30am
South Shields, 2.30am
Southampton Itchen, 5.30am
Southampton Test, 5.30am
Southend West, 3am
Southport, 4am
Spelthorne, 5am
St Albans, 5am
St Austell & Newquay, 6.30am
St Helens North, 4am
St Helens South & Whiston, 4am
St Ives, 7am
Stafford, 3am
Staffordshire Moorlands, 4.30am
Staffordshire South, 4am
Stalybridge & Hyde, 6.30am
Stevenage, 4am
Stirling, 2.30am
Stockport, 5am
Stockton North, 3am
Stockton South, 3.30am
Stoke-on-Trent Central, 4am
Stoke-on-Trent North, 4am
Stoke-on-Trent South, 4am
Stone, 3am
Stourbridge, 5am
Strangford, 2am
Stratford-on-Avon, 4am
Strathaven & Lesmahagow, 2am
Streatham, 3am
Stretford & Urmston, 5am
Stroud, 4am
Suffolk Central & Ipswich North, 4.30am
Suffolk Coastal, 4.30am
Suffolk South, 5am
Suffolk West, 4am
Sunderland Central 11.30pm
Surrey East, 2am
Surrey Heath, 4.30am
Surrey South West, 4.30am
Sussex Mid, 5am
Sutton & Cheam, 4am
Sutton Coldfield, 4am
Swansea East, 3am
Swansea West, 3am
Swindon North 12.30am
Swindon South, 1.30am
Tamworth, 1.30am
Tatton, T 6am
Taunton Deane, 2.30am
Telford, 3am
Thanet North, 7am
Thanet South 7am
Thirsk & Malton, 4.30am
Thornbury & Yate, 3.30am
Thurrock, 2am
Tiverton & Honiton, 6am
Tonbridge & Malling, 4am
Tooting, 1.30am
Torbay, 3am
Torfaen, 2.30am
Totnes, 2.30am
Tottenham, 4am
Truro & Falmouth, 6am
Tunbridge Wells, 3.30am
Twickenham, 4am
Tynemouth, 4.30am
Tyneside North, 4.30am
Tyrone West, 1.30am
Ulster Mid, 3.30am
Upper Bann 2am
Uxbridge & Ruislip South, 4am
Vale of Clwyd, 2.30am
Vale of Glamorgan, 4am
Vauxhall, 3.30am
Wakefield, 5am
Wallasey, 3.30am
Walsall North, 4am
Walsall South, 4am
Walthamstow, 4am
Wansbeck 12pm
Wantage, 6am
Warley, 3.30am
Warrington North, 5am
Warrington South, 5.30am
Warwick & Leamington, 3am
Warwickshire North, 2.30am
Washington & Sunderland West 12am
Watford, 3am
Waveney, 6.30am
Wealden, 4am
Weaver Vale, 4.30am
Wellingborough, 3am
Wells, 5am
Welwyn Hatfield, 3.30am
Wentworth & Dearne, 3am
West Bromwich East, 3.30am
West Bromwich West, 3.30am
West Ham, 4am
Westminster North, 3.30am
Westmorland & Lonsdale, 3am
Weston-Super-Mare, 4am
Wigan, 3.30am
Wiltshire North 6.30am
Wiltshire South West, 4am
Wimbledon, 2.30am
Winchester 5.30am
Windsor, 4.30am
Wirral South, 4am
Wirral West, 5am
Witham, 4am
Witney, 4.30am
Woking, 4am
Wokingham, 5am
Wolverhampton North East, 4.30am
Wolverhampton South East, 4.30am
Wolverhampton South West 4.30am
Worcester 3am
Worcestershire Mid, 4am
Worcestershire West, 4am
Workington, 3.30am
Worsley & Eccles South, 5am
Worthing East & Shoreham, 6am
Worthing West, 6am
Wrekin The, 3.30am
Wrexham 1.30am
Wycombe, 3.30am
Wyre & Preston North 3.30am
Wyre Forest, Yorkshire East 5am
Wythenshawe & Sale East, 4am
Yeovil 4am
Ynys Mon 2.30am
York Central, 6am
York Outer 6am
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[Here’s hoping you gat the MP you voted for]
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