How to watch the general election live: Follow Sky News coverage on TV, streaming and online
Sky News has live coverage and an award-winning line-up, bringing you everything as soon as it happens, with commentary and analysis to help you digest key developments.
Friday 5 July 2024 07:38, UK
The fastest results, the sharpest analysis and an award-winning line up - as the general election unfolds, Sky News will bring you the full story, first.
Whether you want to settle down in front of the TV, stay in the know on the move, or keep updated from work, we have live coverage across our platforms to bring you everything as soon as it happens.
We have expert commentary and analysis to help you digest key developments, kicking off with the exit poll and running through the weekend.
Follow general election results live
What's happening - and when?
Thursday night into Friday
Chief presenter Kay Burley is anchoring Election Night Live, the overnight results programme, from a 360-degree immersive studio normally used by Sky Sports shows like Monday Night Football.
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester and a former Labour MP, are providing guest analysis alongside the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives and star of Electoral Dysfunction, Baroness Ruth Davidson.
Burley, who will be covering her 12th UK general election, is also joined by Sky News' award-winning political editor Beth Rigby, the presenter of our Sunday politics show Sir Trevor Phillips, and our economics and data editor Ed Conway.
Conway is examining the election data as it comes in, which will appear on our "dancefloor" constituency map of the UK.
He'll also take you inside Sky's virtual Downing Street complete with AI versions of Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, and Larry the Downing Street cat.
The Sky News team will take viewers through the key results on the night, making use of this new technology to explain the polling data from every angle, offering viewers the full story.
Plus, the winner of the race for Number 10 will be revealed with the help of an immersive to-scale augmented reality Downing Street.
Elections analyst Professor Michael Thrasher will also be on hand to offer statistical analysis of the election for Sky News - as he has at every election since 1989.
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From 7am on the morning after the nationwide voting, lead politics presenter Sophy Ridge, host of Sky's Politics Hub programme, will be live from Westminster bringing viewers every development as the election result is absorbed and plans for the next government are made.
Ridge will be joined by deputy political editor Sam Coates and Sky News contributor Adam Boulton across what will be a historic day, as the nation awaits the next prime minister.
Sky News' audience will be the first to find out what's really happening - with our reporters and cameras at election counts up and down the UK revealing the dramatic results and hearing from candidates from across the political spectrum.
We'll have an early morning episode of Politics at Jack and Sam's and special editions of Electoral Dysfunction and the Sky News Daily podcast.
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Our live blog will feature the latest results, swift and in-depth analysis, as well as reactions to the results across the country and much more.
Follow every moment right here in our Politics Hub.
Shortly after the polls close we'll have a seat-by-seat lookup to let you see the forecast result in your constituency and through the night we'll have a live, interactive results service to give you the big picture as well as the result where you live.
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