On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 at 05:30:02, rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote in 
uk.politics.electoral :
>>
>> Am I right in thinking the UK's Euro results will all be released
>> at 9pm tonight? Presumably they were counted back on Friday?
>
>You're right abut the release. The counting hasn't started (not round here
>anyway). We start at 3 in Cambridge.

Is that a general thing then?

The only possible reason I can think of is to prevent leaks - obviously 
you can't leak a result that hasn't been counted yet!
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham