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UK elections: David Cameron looks to return as PM after early tremble

India TV News Desk [Published on:08 May 2015, 8:53 AM]
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London: Prime Minister David Cameron seems to return to the office as his Conservative Party is leading ahead of its closest rival Labour Party with significant margin.  

During early results in the morning, Labour Party was on top in terms of seat count but later was replaced by Conservatives.

As per the latest reports, Conservatives have won 301, Labour Party 221 and Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) 56 seats. 326 seats are required to form government in 650 member parliament.  

The BBC is now predicting that the Conservatives will finish the fight on 325 seats, 90 seats more than Labour, an enough for an overall majority.

As the results were still coming in, Cameron said, "This is clearly a very strong night for the Conservative Party. We've had a positive response to a positive campaign. Above all I want to bring our UK together - I want my party to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost, one nation, one UK."

The most surprising result has come from Scotland where SNP is expected to win 58 out of 60 seats. SNP's 20-year-old Mhairi Black became youngest MP since 1667 by defeating Labour's Douglas Alexander in the seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

The gain of SNP has been the loss of Labour Party with some senior MPs losing their seats.

Exit Polls after yesterday's elections predicted thumping victory for Conservative Party.

The exit poll, based on interviews with 22,000 voters, differed strongly from opinion polls conducted during the month-long election campaign, which had put the Conservatives and Labour neck-and-neck with about a third of the vote share each.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, who is running for a seat in Parliament as a Conservative, said that if the poll is accurate, "then obviously it's a very, very clear victory for the Conservatives and a very bad night for Labour."

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