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  Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election

  Dozens of MPs who were re-elected to their seats are still labelled “former Member of Parliament”, days after the election results.

• TIL: What does the word “gubernatorial” mean?

  It’s anything related to a governor, and mostly used for the governors of US states.

• What is psephology?

  It’s the scientific study of elections and voting, and it comes from the Greek word for “pebble”, because pebbles were used for voting in ancient Greece.