[Stooky Bill]

I’d probably go lower and say no more than 200

And it's worth remembering that not every count/declaration is featured on the TV election coverage, at least not live.

The broadcasters have someone at every location but often it's just to phone in the result (and they won't necessarily be journalists) . Some will have a someone to record pics which are sent back later for regional news etc. It's only large ones that have live video sent back, and only the really significant that have a reporter.


Incidently I've worked a few elections including one for regional news. The big problem we had there was that camera operators get bored at election counts, they're there for hours. So what you get back is a lot of footage of people counting votes... that's really all there is happening for most of the night. We had to enforce a limit of maximum a minute of counting shots as it wasn't worth wasting server space and time on them (back in the days before there was lots of space and you could just transfer the data over) . Even then they were rarely used.