2011-05-05

Polling Day, Results Timetable, TV Coverage

The BBC news website has posted a useful timetable relating to today's vote and the estimated times at which we will learn the various results.
The AV result is not expected until 20:00 on Friday night. Results of the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections are expected to come in from about 02:30 on Friday.

  • In England and Northern Ireland, BBC1 is showing its Vote 2011 coverage, hosted by David Dimbleby, from 23:35, following Question Time from London.
  • In Wales, BBC1 is showing Election 2011 - The Results from 22:35, presented by Jamie Owen with commentary by Betsan Powys and others. The UK-wide Vote 2011 programme will be shown from 23:35 on BBC2. S4C's Etholiad 2011, presented by Dewi Llwyd, starts at 22:00.
  • In Scotland, Sally Magnusson presents the Scottish Election results on BBC1 from 23:45 and BBC2 joins Vote 2011 from 00:20.
  • ITV appear to have no dedicated election coverage.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the info. I claim the right of first person to have a comment moderated on your blog. Interesting choice of background....perhaps I shouldn't read too much into that.

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  2. Thanks, Peter! Am deliberately experimenting with various pre-set options (i.e. rather than designing my own) and this was the background that appealed most (out of a rather limited selection).

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  3. Just realised that the reason why Northern Ireland didn't have its own coverage was that there was no overnight vote count there

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