BBC Election 2005 exit poll

When Big Ben struck 10 pm on 5 May 2005, the BBC announced the result of their exit poll which showed that Tony Blair would remain as Prime Minister but with a majority in the House of Commons of just 66.

Although the result was correct, the exit poll predicted number of seats for each party was not quite right. In reality, Labour won 356 seats, the Conservatives won 198 seats and the Liberal Democrats won 62 seats.

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• United
• Kingdom
• general
• election
• 2005
• Tony Blair
• Michael Howard
• Charles Kennedy

[SarahSmith666]

Good old days

[irishgodfatherchris]

I've noticed that the pundit on the panel when talking about the exit poll in 1992 said that it predicted a Labour Government when it in fact predicted a Hung Parliament

[Jam369100]

@Kozzy06 Completely Disagreeing on that comment!

[Jimmmeeehhh]

@Kozzy06 oh shut it. How?

[Tokyorosebiz]

See what has happened to our Great Country watch THE PARTY OF SLEAZE by TOKYO ROSE

[Kozzy06]

@SarahSmith666 LOL

Good old days?

Blair destroyed this country.

[altfactor]

In the UK, there's only one time zone and thus, all polls closed at the same hour.

If all U.S. polling places for a Presidential election closed at the same time (i.e. 10 P.M. Eastern time), we could see Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, or Scott Pelley go on the air five minutes before the polls close, and then as the clock struck the poll-closing time in all 50 states, dramatically announce who has been elected, based on exit polling.