Vote 2011

Interesting to see that there will be a special scottish election breakfast next Friday with Glenn Campbell and Jackie Bird and political editor Brian Taylor. Did they do this last time for the Scottish Election?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01105nx

Wales and NI are sticking with the UK breakfast.

Northern Ireland is back to its normal business of counting the votes the day after the election, so they have their own marathon coverage on Friday 6th May, 3pm-7pm BBC One, 7pm-10pm BBC Two and 10.25pm-11.10pm BBC One. UTV's coverage runs from 12.30pm-1.30pm, 4.00pm-6.30pm, 8.00pm-8.30pm and 10.30pm-11.00pm.

Also interesting that there are additional David Dimbleby-anchored programmes throughout the Friday afternoon on BBC Two Network - 12pm-1pm, 2pm-3pm and 5pm-6pm. Not commonplace for council elections, but I suppose there is a Referendum this time as well.

Will N9 come back into use then for the elections?

Yes, the referendum will not be counted overnight. Counting will start in the late afternoon on Friday, with the final result declared sometime in the evening.

Part of Wales will also be counting during Friday, as North Wales will not be counting overnight. Scotland probably will be too as in both Wales and Scotland they have the constituency votes to count, and also the regional list votes. Interesting that in Wales and Northern Ireland, at times during Friday there will be national election/referendum results on BBC One, and assembly election results on BBC Two. The assembly result programmes will also be switching between BBC One and BBC Two during the afternoon when BBC One are showing programmes which are not disposable like the One O'Clock News.

Charlie, Susanna and Louise are covering breakfast on election morning according to the RT.

Seems an odd decision for the BBC to have a split afternoon programme rather than a continuous effort - it isn't as if they couldn't clear either BBC1 or BBC2 for the afternoon, as they have for BBC Wales.

Anyway, two things of note when looking at next weeks schedules. On Friday there is a Newsnight special at 7.30pm for the verdict of the 7/7 Inquest - and also Pyschoville is back with it's new series next Thursday!!!!

Here's a full round-up of STV's coverage, (makes a nice change to the last Scottish Elections in 2007):

Scotland Decides
Thursday 5 May (11.10pm-5.30am)

STV's biggest ever Scottish Parliament election results programme promises viewers the quickest results service and insightful analysis of every significant twist and turn. With correspondents and cameras across Scotland, more than half the declarations will be broadcast live. Bernard Ponsonby and Juliet Dunlop are joined in the studio by expert political analyst Professor James Mitchell and a changing panel of senior politicians.
(Also on ITV1 Border)

Scotland Decides
Friday 6 May (12.30pm-1.30pm)

Bernard Ponsonby and Juliet Dunlop present comprehensive analysis of the overnight Holyrood election results and provide live coverage of counts held on Friday morning. Senior politicians and personalities from outside politics give their reaction.

STV News Special
Friday 6 May (6.00pm-7.00pm)

John MacKay and Andrea Brymer present an STV News at Six election special live from Holyrood wth all the results, news and analysis from across the country. With all the main national and international news.

Good to see Juliet Dunlop is involved with quite a bit of it.

Here's a full round-up of ITV1 Wales' coverage:

Wales Decides 2011
Thursday 5 May (10.35pm-11.05pm)

As the polling stations close and the counting of the votes begins, Adrian Masters and his guests look forward to the results of the National Assembly elections.

Wales Decides 2011
Friday 6 May (12.30pm-1.30pm; then 1.55pm-3.00pm)

As the final results of the Assembly election are declared, who will rule Wales for the next five years? Join Jonathan Hill and Adrian Masters for live reports from all the key declarations. Andrea Benfield has expert analysis of the new political map of Wales and Esyllt Carr is at the Senedd for the latest reactions to the outcome.

Wales Tonight
Friday 6 May (6.00pm-6.30pm)

All the latest news, sport, breaking stories and local weather from across Wales.

Just to clarify

Overnight Thursday - most of Scotland, most of Wales and some English Council Elections
Friday - Rest of Wales, Scotland, English Council, All of Northern Ireland and Referendum

Thats about right isn't it?

How have they managed to get out of the ITV Evening News?


I guess that includes the English part of ITV1 Border as well as the Scottish part? Have Border taken STV's Scotland Debates programmes?


Surprising for ITV Wales to do a network opt out during the daytime. Usually they only opt out for the bare minimum required by Ofcom

Anyway credit to ITV for taking STV in Border and the Wales opt-outs. It would have been very easy not to


Indeed. The News Channel will be going right through the afternoon, so the cost would surely be tiny

Also I wonder what happens if the Referendum result isn't known until primetime? Would they wait until the 10pm news before reporting the result on either BBC1 or 2? Or is an impromtu news special likely?

There have managed to get out of the ITV Evening News before, it was the last election. sometime I wish there would do this more often

Yes. AIUI, there is no longer a seperate ITV1 Border Scotland service. Scotland Debates was shown on ITV1 Border later in the evening.