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Hello, two newscasts in one day. There must be loads of election results coming in.

Now, a few years ago, Radio 4 used to have a thing called the Chris Mason's Election

Desk of Election News with Chris Mason. Unfortunately, Chris is having a little sleep

in between doing newscast this morning and any questions tonight. So I thought we'd revive

the Chris Mason's Election Desk of Election News, but without him flamming.

Love that music. Should we keep it for every episode?

In Hampstead Town, Labour's candidate Adrian Cohen didn't expect to win,

so he was fast asleep during the count and he had to be walking up from his beeheds to find out

he had won. Hull has gone labour at to Liberal Democrats.

Leader Darren Hale is clearly feeling the pressure, he says, about complaints from the public.

I look forward to all the roadblocks being completed in the middle of the night by magic pixies

with no disruption to the public, but we'll see. And then in, uh, where is it? Hulton-Burrow

Council in Cheshire, there was a tie, which means the two candidates had to pick lots from an envelope.

Democracy in action. Oh, and, um, David Van Day, who was in the 80s pop duod dollar,

has lost his seat. But actually, he'd lost his seat before and one again, so he could be duod

and come back. Right? I just love that music. I think I might just make it my personal theme tune.

And if you want to know the results, where you are, if I have been elections, where you are,

and it's quite likely there were head to the BBC News website, where there is a very

comprehensive results section, and all sorts of stories like you've just heard. Now,

let's see what Laura's been up to and get some analysis on this episode of Newscast.

Newscast. Newscast from the BBC, that will take some time before we figure out what our new normal

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