How Many Seats Did Tories Actually Win?

[Cloverjo]

The BBC News website has the Tories with 331 seats, while Sky News says it's 330. I've been watching Sky News all day except for a break for an hour or so. I'm sure it also said 331 earlier. What happened? Was one result declared wrongly?
Not that it makes a lot of difference. I'm just wondering.

[Cloverjo]

It's just been explained on Sky. They don't count the Speaker's seat.

[DTCwordfan]

332 - and then they may well offer some sustenance to the Unionists, both the UU and the DUP, who total 10 to give them even more of a comfort blanket,

[PankySmooch]

Was watching BBC1 and Sky earlier and Sky were about half hour behind the BBC with the seats won, would've thought they would be a bit more up to date

[Zacs-Master]

Far more than Labour. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

They won 331, which is a majority of 12. If you discount the speaker that is a notional majority of 14. With Sinn Fein a no-show and if they can bring the NI Unionists on board they should be able to govern comfortably.

[Cloverjo]

Sky were calling it a majority of 10. Even discounting the Speaker's seat - so 330 for the Cons - the total they gave still added to 650. They must have counted the Speaker as "other", lumped in with the Greens etc.

[Jackdaw33]

Sky is wrong. For every seat over 325 the majority increases by two. The Tories were six seats above that so their majority is 12. If you discount the Speaker it is 13. If Sinn Fein don't take their seats that rises to 17.