To elaborate on this, the entire country does this on the same day to vote in our general elections and it scales to 70m+ people without any issue. The referenc

To elaborate on this, the entire country does this on the same day to vote in our general elections and it scales to 70m+ people without any issue. The reference to the North East and Sunderland is that they are usually the first to declare around 2 hours after the polls have closed. Most other constituencies take between 7 and 12 hours to count votes through the night.