Projected national share
Hey presto! The have toiled long and hard and come up with the numbers that tell us how the parties have done nationally.
This, you might think is absurd since people are voting on local issues at least as much as national ones. Maybe, but these figures shape the way in which these elections are interpreted by the media and the politicians themselves.
Projected national share - Great Britain (based on English locals)
% vote
Con: 41 - that's up a point on last year
Lab: 27 - also up a point on last year
LD : 26 - down a point
Other: 6
Jeremy Vine: "This would probably be met with quiet disappointment" at Tory HQ.
They've emailed to say that, actually, a massive cheer went up in the office!
I'm 
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Nick - David Dimbleby and yourself keep referring to where particular councils fall on each parties targets list... yet I can't find the list anywhere on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ website - is it there?
If this election does come down to just one seat as seems possible at the moment. Than having 4-5% of vote discounted will forever cast a cloud over the result.
I hate to bring up Florida 2000, but God firbid, there is more than a whiff of that at the moment.
Nick,
How will the discrepancy between Westminster and Holyrood pan out, and what implications will the lack of devolution in England have on Gordon Brown's premiership? In particular, how long can the Labour party continue to claim that an English Grand Committee would be unconstitutional whilst maintaining "one person, one OR TWO votes"? Can Alex Salmond capitalize on this?