The Electoral Reform Society predicts Labour will end up with 114 female MPs this time, almost twice as many as the Tories' forecast 59. "In 1997, half of our target seats were women-only shortlists.
With the Tory defector Mark Reckless forecast to win the hotly-contested by-election in Rochester and Strood today, his rivals on the ballot paper Britain First have suggested they only campaigned "to bolster the Ukip campaign".
Having delved deeper into the results we can report that 19 of you accurately forecast the Tory tally of 306 seats.
Mr Blair's beatific triumph in 1997, when his party won a majority of 179, was exceptional in recent times; voters usually elect a government reluctantly.A September poll of more than 33,000 voters across 238 marginal constituencies by PoliticsHome, a website now partly owned by Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party's deputy chairman, forecast a Tory majority of 70 seats.
Nevertheless, the incoming government will have to face up to this crisis, probably sooner rather than later.Public-expenditure plans, endorsed by both Labour and the Tories during the campaign, forecast only an average 0.6% real annual increase in the NHS's budget for the next three years.
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg asked Carney why, when the Bank's forecasts "were so wrong", he had failed to support monetary policy committee member Ian McCafferty, who said the UK was more robust than Threadneedle Street's forecasts predicted and refused to back some measures to ease credit further.
Now it's true that the OBR forecast that under Tory plans spending would drop to 1930s levels but there's one crucial rider - that's as a share of national income which is, of course, massively higher than back then.
If the Tories win the 316 seats forecast by the exit poll, Mr Cameron would need the support of the Lib Dems or Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to be sure of an overall majority in Commons votes.
Tory vignettes from PMQs.
Tory - David Davis, John Redwood, Christopher Chope.
