Local Elections

Oh! And Barnet.

Southampton has also gone Labour.

Now be interesting to see how the Liberals have done in the leafy shires? Labour can’t hope to get many of those councils, most of the gains by labour were got 4 years ago, but the Libs should make significant gains.

Labour have gained Wandsworth but more remarkably Westminster!!

NIreland is an Assembly election.
If voters don't think carefully we will be stuck with no Assembly.
Our system needs reformed.

Looks like a Tory wipeout in London and good results for the Lib Dems and Greens so far. Interesting to see how Scotland and NIreland vote.

Looks quiet here ,traditionally a Labour seat but went SNP last time.No idea how it will go

Very disappointed with people I know not voting, only a very small representation, but it’ll be interesting to see the stats.

No voting in our area, but drove through a couple of villages in another part of Oxfordshire this afternoon and the car parks looked very busy.

Ours is always quiet in the day, most voters here are at work until evening.

We have postal votes too snd made sure we sent them off. We live in one of the NE 'Redwall' constituencies and have always voted Labour. Don't want to say more about the others.
But you never know.
Still can't understand why my hometown of Blyth switched from L to C in the last general election.

We only had a choice of two here in definitely not rural Wigan ! Even the staff in the polling station thought tgat was odd .Was quiet only me in to vote .

I, too, would echo both varian's sentiments to get out and vote. I really cannot understand why people don't.

We voted by post. If you have a vote and still haven't voted I urge you to get out and vote for the candidate most likely to beat the corrupt lying Conservatives.

Voted by post. For the first time ever in 50 years of voting, I thought about not bothering or sending my paper back with comments, but finally voted for candidates who I hope will be good councillors for my area if they are elected.
Only had leaflets to go on, no visits. I think turnout here will be very low.

We are rural but voting was brisk and I had to queue for my ballot paper. I've had no contact from any of the candidates, no-one knocking on the door and no leaflets through the letter box., acquaintances were the same.
I don't know why, but we've been 'attached' to a nearby town that is not where locals shop or have many dealings (like GPs and dentists) with. Other people I spoke to felt the same.
I wouldn't have bothered but my Mum drummed it into me that the suffragettes went through a great deal of suffering to get women the vote, so i should always use it!

Hardly anyone here. The church is across the road and I've not been staring constantly but have only seen couple of people.

We are quite rural here and I guess people just aren't bothering.

Thought of spoiling my paper but decided to rule out what I don’t want. Ended up with three crosses against the best of a bad lot.
We were the only two there at 2.30 pm.
None of our adult children have voted today, apathy, disillusionment, too busy, who knows.

Not busy, and only one party fielded three candidates, which made voting problematic.

Only a choice of two candidates in my rural community. I knew both of them, and both have been out canvassing. I think our turnout will be good, I’ve seen people walking and driving past to vote all day - including on their tractors.

Steady flow here. 4 Candidates..

Ours was quiet at 8am but I had to wait while the teller explained to a young lady how to vote. There were lots of candidates and she couldn’t understand why she was given 3 votes but didn’t have to use them all if she didn’t want to it took ages and I don’t think she really got it.

Very interesting here in NI. SF are hopeful of having a majority and getting First Minister post. Unionists will be trying to prevent this of course.
I hope we don't lose our wonderful local MLA to DUP because of this.

Very quiet near us and none of the candidates have been round to drum up business. It could be a bit like the OP said.

Ours was very quiet. Lots of conservatives with ribbons at the entrance who’s necks I could have gladly wrung.
I voted tactically against them.
I doubt there will be a high turnout, they were door knocking today to try drum up more voters to attend the polling station.

It was quiet in mine but I went mid morning to avoid being there when busier.
We had a choice of 4 - all local well-known faces especially in the last 4 weeks!

Very busy by us. For the first time since we've lived here, the school where we vote was open. So there were voters, parents and children leaving the school at the time we went.