What are you doing on election night?

[DynamicSpirit]

Go on - tell us what you'll be doing on Thursday night after the polls close. It's a multi-vote poll so select as many options as you want.

 

[Ostrich]

Probably watch it on BBC iPlayer until 2 or 3 in the morning,hopefully to see a few big names either fall or survive.
Mrs O will be sound asleep!
The constituency I'm in usually doesn't declare until mid-Friday.

 

[birchesgreen]

I'll probably stay up until the result is secure. I've booked Friday off work anyway.

I think LBC/Newsagents are running a live stream so i'll try that but probably switch around during the night.

 

[dk1]

I might check it during the night (always BBC) but won’t wake up especially.

 

[adc82140]

I'm waiting for the exit poll at 10pm, then straight to bed, setting the alarm for 4am. I've made the mistake in the past of staying up, nothing really happens until about 2am. Friday AM is booked off work, then I'm work from home from 1pm.

 

[AntoniC]

I`m pulling an all nighter , I booked tomorrow of work as soon as the election was called.
Hopefully about 4.30 am Labour will win my constituency of Southport for the first time.

 

[1D54]

Stayed up all night in 2019 but will be doing no such thing this time around. Dreading what is coming for the next 10 + years.

 

[Bantamzen]

I'm going to have a glass or two of wine with the family, go to bed as usual and at some point on Friday find out if I have a new employer....

 

[SteveM70]

Bit harsh on Channel 4 being lumped in with the minor channels!

 

[Gloster]

I’ll probably go to bed as soon as the Radio 3 concert ends at 21.45; if I am a bit late I may look at the exit poll on the BBC website. As I am liable to wake up in the early hours, usually around 03.-04.00, I may look at what the situation is then, but this time I reckon that I don’t really need to worry.

 

[LowLevel]

I've got a particularly heavy 10 hour shift on Friday so I'll be off to bed. Might get up early though!

 

[Yew]

Listening to Swing music.

 

[Falcon1200]

I'm going to bed at normal time but getting up early (0500 hopefully) on Friday - don't see that option in the list however!

 

[Andyh82]

I’ll be getting up early

No point staying up late, after the exit poll nothing happens for hours. Even the first few seats to declare are generally very safe Labour seats in the North East so tell you nothing about how it’s going

It’s about 3am when the results start rushing in

 

[gg1]

I'm staying up all night. I'm working from home today and have booked tomorrow off work, I'll try to nap for an hour or two after work to see me through the night.

 

[SteveM70]

I have two plans:

1 - stay up all night, and there's a nice bottle of barolo set aside to help me (hopefully) celebrate the downfall of the Tories

2 - watch the exit poll and the first declarations to get an idea of the actual swing, have a kip for about 3 hours, and resume at about 2am for (hopefully) the Portillo parade

I'll see how tired I'm feeling at 11pm and decide

 

[StripeyNick]

Going to bed as normal then getting up early for a drive up into mid Wales..... couldn't give a monkeys what's going on with the election

 

[philjo]

I’ll probably watch the exit poll on BBC1 then go to bed and listen to Radio 4 coverage until the first couple of results are declared.
Radio 4 coverage is not one of the options on the poll!

 

[Cowley]

I have two plans:

1 - stay up all night, and there's a nice bottle of barolo set aside to help me (hopefully) celebrate the downfall of the Tories

2 - watch the exit poll and the first declarations to get an idea of the actual swing, have a kip for about 3 hours, and resume at about 2am for (hopefully) the Portillo parade

I’m caught between those two options myself. I’ve got a fill in job of painting the exteriors of the neighbours houses going on at the moment so I can take tomorrow off or just do a few hours work tomorrow.

I think I might settle down on the sofa at 10ish and doze now and again until it starts getting interesting!

 

[DarloRich]

I have work tomorrow so wont stay up that late. Perhaps 2 am. Wake up to a nice morning and new start for the country. ( Hopefully!)

Stayed up all night in 2019 but will be doing no such thing this time around. Dreading what is coming for the next 10 + years.

what do you think is going to happen?

 

[52290]

I’ll probably go to bed as soon as the Radio 3 concert ends at 21.45; if I am a bit late I may look at the exit poll on the BBC website. As I am liable to wake up in the early hours, usually around 03.-04.00, I may look at what the situation is then, but this time I reckon that I don’t really need to worry.

Tonight's concert is a performance of Dream Requiem by Rufus Wainwright which the Radio Times says includes words from the Latin Mass for the Dead. If so it's likely that the hymn Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) will be used. Here's an extract translated into English.

"What a trembling there will be when the Judge shall come to try all things truly.
A trumpet, spreading wondrous sound throughout the graves of all kingdoms,shall drive all men before the throne.
Death and nature shall be astonished when creation rises again to make answer before the Judge.
A book of writings shall be brought forth in which shall be contained everything for which the world shall be judged.
And so, when the Judge sits, whatsoever is hidden shall be made manifest, and nothing will go unavenged".

How appropriate for today and happy listening!

 

[nw1]

Up early I think, assuming I don't oversleep - on the continent so ahead of UK time. Will listen to the exit poll and maybe a bit of chat and then go to bed.

If I had been in the UK I'd stay up late. The time difference makes this more tricky - a shame, as personally this looks to be the most interesting since 1997.

A contrast to 2019, when I went to bed early and refused to even listen to the exit poll. In fact things were much worse than I was even fearing (my prediction was a Con majority of 12, I didn't anticipate the red wall going Tory).

2015 ("eat my hat") was the last one I stayed up late for, expecting something interesting (Tories with most seats but no majority, Lib Dems refuse a coalition, so what then?), before going to bed in disgust when I heard the Tories had held Battersea (rationale being that if Labour couldn't gain Battersea, what hope would they have in places like Nuneaton, which they needed to win?)

In 2017 things could have been interesting but I'd had a minor accident and needed rest (though I still managed to vote).

1997 was always the classic one. Can't remember how late I stayed up but do remember when I woke up it was very bright sunshine and probably approaching midday.

 

[jp4712]

I'm the one that ticked 'I'm a party volunteer, I'll be at a count'. The result for my constituency is usually declared at about 0330 but it's a normally safe seat that the MRP polls are saying is now on a knife edge - so a recount could see me in a soulless leisure centre until 0700...

 

[brad465]

I'll probably try and sleep for around 2 hours in the evening, as this prevents me being able to sleep properly until at least 3am. I will probably watch the Exit poll and immediate aftermath, then spend 2-3 hours gaming and/or doing certain admin, before tuning in properly once the results come in. I'm not doing counting work this year so will be the first election in a while I watch it fully.

 

[spyinthesky]

I’ll probably watch for an hour when I get in from work (23:30) but Ian working from 10am Friday

 

[brad465]

I'm going to have a glass or two of wine with the family, go to bed as usual and at some point on Friday find out if I have a new employer....

Do you find Yes Minister very relatable, especially the first series the context of changing government?

 

[Bantamzen]

Do you find Yes Minister very relatable, especially the first series the context of changing government?

I thought at first that it was a fly-on-the-wall documentary...

 

[DarloRich]

I'm the one that ticked 'I'm a party volunteer, I'll be at a count'. The result for my constituency is usually declared at about 0330 but it's a normally safe seat that the MRP polls are saying is now on a knife edge - so a recount could see me in a soulless leisure centre until 0700...

are refreshments provided for you?

 

[Blindtraveler]

I've got everything crossed for a repeat of 2010s hung parliament scenario as I don't feel any one party offers the solution I'm looking for, but in particular I do not want starmer and his sidekick being given the chance of coming in and spreading a different kind of filth to the last 14 years, but Phil for nonetheless. I'll have a large whisky when poles close and then go to bed and hopefully sleep, I've been sleeping badly for weeks anyway, so assuming this miraculously happens again tonight then I'll have some coverage of some sort on in the background. But I could do with a decent night kip so most likely if I get it I'll wake up to the inevitable

 

[brad465]

I thought at first that it was a fly-on-the-wall documentary...

Now it looks more sane than this world in comparison.