The joint BBC / ITV /
Sky exit poll, taken at dozens of polling stations across the UK, and announced as the real polls closed, predicted a hung Parliament, with the Conservatives just short of an overall majority and the Lib Dems not doing much better than they had in 2005.
Once the polls close at 10 pm, the broadcasters will publish their joint BBC / ITV /
Sky exit poll and pundits will spend the next hour or so chewing over the findings.
Not exact matches
Sky News has commissioned a YouGov
poll that will be released after 10 pm — but this is not an
exit poll and should not be treated like one.
Exit polls on the BBC and ITV predicted a Tory victory of between 30 and 50 seats; only
Sky News forecast a hung parliament.
A surprising
exit poll, collected by Ipsos MORI and GfK on behalf of the BBC, ITN and
Sky News, was published at 10 pm at the end of voting: [158]
[17] Throughout the day GfK NOP and Ipsos MORI conducted an
exit poll on behalf of the BBC,
Sky and ITV news services — the results of which were announced as the
polls closed at 10:00 pm.
The
exit poll is carried out by
polling companies GfK and Ipsos Mori for the BBC, ITV News and
Sky News.