2010 General Election Betting

The opinion polls are starting to show the gap between the Tory Party and the Labour Party is closing, as a result the Bookies have reacted by cutting Labour into around the 9/2 - 4/1 mark, the Tory's have drifted sightly from 1/12 to the 1/5 - 1/6 mark.

As a result of this, the likelihood of a Hung Parliament has become a more realistic outcome with William Hill now offering 6/4 on this scenario happening. Ladbrokes are even going as far as offering 7/1 on there being more than one General Election in 2010.

In the event of a Hung Parliament, Hill's go 10/3 on David Cameron to be PM, 4/1 on Gordon Brown remaining resident in No 10, and 50/1 any other.

There would appear to be no bookies now offering odds on the 6th May being the date for the General Election

A further revelation has seen the BBC claim that they rejected a request from Downing St to allow Gordon Brown to appear on Match of the Day 2 (on a Sunday night), claiming it is too close to the General Election.

Useless trivia, former Labour leader Tony Blair once appeared on the BBC's Football Focus programme.

To Win General Election (Most Seats) Betting

The Conservative Party are 1/5 with Betfred
Labour are 9/2 with Sportingbet
Liberal Democrats are 200/1 with Bet365

2010 General Election Betting

No change in the betting over the last couple of weeks, the Torys are still favourites at 1/12


To Win General Election (Most Seats) Betting

The Conservative Party are 1/12
Labour are 13/2
Liberal Democrats are 150/1
Any other party are 500/1


General Election Date Betting

6th May seems to be the most likely date, only Ladbrokes have odds up at the moment and they go 1/5 for May.

2010 General Election Betting

In the Houses of Parliament this week, PMQs was its usual boisterous self with Cameron and Brown attacking each other as usual, and as usual neither man answering any questions.

Brown attacked Cameron over his lack of substance on policies, while Cameron attacked Brown over his lack of popularity with his fellow collegues and again called for him to stop dithering and call the election.

Oh yes, and in case you didn't guess it, he again asked Brown about his promise to put an end to 'Boom and Bust'.

I think we may as well get used to hearing that over the next few weeks! All in all not much to report.

In terms of betting, the best odds are still the same, just the bookmakers have changed.

To Win General Election (Most Seats) Betting

The Conservative Party are 1/12 favourites with Bet365, 888Sport, Betfred, Blue Square, Coral, Ladbrokes, Sky Bet, Sportingbet and William Hill
Labour are 13/2 with Paddy Power and Coral
Liberal Democrats are 150/1 with Bet365
Any other party are 500/1 with Bet365

2010 General Election Betting

In the lead up to the forthcoming British General Election I will be keeping an eye on the odds as to who will be the outright winner, or 'Win the Most Seats' as some bookmakers may refer to it as.

Every Wednesday evening I will post the best odds as to who the bookies think is most likely to be in 10 Downing Street by May/June time. Also there will be odds as to what date the election will be held and various other specials.

Todays Events

Today, David Cameron got a good hammering at PMQs by Gordon Brown, at times Cameron looked like he had ran out of ideas and things to say in what was his worst performance for a long time at the dispatch box.

At one stage Cameron had no point at all to make and just used up one of his questions to try and ridicule Brown with points about him being washed up and out of touch, this coming after Brown had successfully attacked Cameron over indecisive Tory plans for tax breaks for married couples, in fairness Brown had won hands down.

All this good work was undone later in the afternoon as a new year gift was delivered to David Cameron when the news broke that Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have called for a secret ballot among Labour MPs on the future of the party leader, ensuring all Thursdays newspaper headlines wouldn't be about PMQs, but Labours apparent suicide.

To Win General Election (Most Seats) Betting

The Conservative Party are 1/12 favourites with Paddy Power, Ladbrokes and Bet365
Labour are 13/2 with VC Bet and William Hill
Liberal Democrats are 150/1 with Bet365
Any other party are 500/1 with Bet365