This was a night of a thousand stories.
Politics at its heart is about human beings, and their emotions: success, failure, jubilation, anguish, regret.
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was a very high profile nocturnal casualty.
Arguably the outgoing government’s most able communicator, his voice cracking as he delivered his concession speech.
Jeremy Hunt hung on in Surrey, his voice cracking too as he spoke.
This was a night whose soundtrack was the post mortem beginning in the Conservative Party: from Robert Buckland, Mr Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and others.
There will be plenty more of that to come.
But remember, unlike the circus of Conservative psychodrama in recent years, this will be a sideshow of a tussle – a battle within an opposition party, not a governing party.
It will still matter though because millions of people will want to ensure the new government, with a big majority, is properly scrutinised and held to account, and will want the Conservative Party to play a part in that.
The big picture is this: within hours, we will soon have our fourth prime minister in under two years.
The whirlwind of British politics continues.
We live in a world of unprecedented voter volatility – more people in more places are more willing to change their minds more often and more quickly about politics than ever before.
And it has happened again.
