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Today in Focus

Election Extra: a guide to the night

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When to set your alarm for the potential Portillo-moments and how to make it through to dawn. With Archie Bland. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Search BT's got your back. From the Guardians We bring you a handy viewing guide for how election night will play out and what to look out for.

0:46.0

We'll run through some of the key seats where big Tory beasts could lose their seats and the times to set your alarm clocks for the potential Portillo moment.

0:55.0

And could Nigel Farage finally achieve his ambition of becoming an MP, will have tips on making

1:01.0

it through till dawn.

1:11.4

Well with me is Archie Bland and Archie it is finally polling day after a long and slightly torrid six weeks. I hope all election extra

1:15.4

listeners are out today casting their votes or have already done so by post and

1:19.2

are getting ready for their election night viewing parties tonight.

1:21.9

Archie, what will be the first big moment of the night?

1:25.5

The first one is a very big one and definitely worth staying up for even if you are

1:30.8

pathetic and normally go to bed at 9 p.m. because at 10 o'clock the polls close and

1:36.2

immediately the big broadcasters will publish the exit poll which they conduct together and that

1:41.6

is historically a very reliable guide to what the

1:45.1

eventual result is going to be so what they do there is they basically just ask people

1:48.9

at polling stations how they have just voted and put that information together to come up with a pretty solid

1:53.7

figure. It's generally been very accurate. In 2015 it said there was a hung parliament, but it was still pretty

1:59.8

close to the correct number of seats in what turned out to be a conservative majority and it

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