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Exit Polls: British Conservatives Win but Fall Short of Majority

   VOA News 06 May 2010

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

   David  Cameron, leader of the Conservative party, Britain's opposition
   party,  leaves  with  his  wife  Samantha a Polling station in Witney,
   England,  Thursday,  May  6, 2010. Britain holds a General Election on
   Thursday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

   Exit  polls  from  Britain's  parliamentary elections Thursday suggest
   that  David Cameron's opposition Conservatives have won the most seats
   but will fall short of a majority.
   The  Conservatives  are  projected  to  win  307 seats in the 650-seat
   parliament  --  short  of  the  326  needed for an absolute majority.Â
   Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor Party is expected to win 255 seats
   and the Liberal Democrats 59 seats.
   A Conservative victory would end 13 years of Labor Party rule. Â
   Final results are not expected until sometime Friday.
   Whoever  wins  will  have  to  lead Britain's recovery from the global
   economic  crisis  and  develop a plan for cutting the country's record
   $236 billion deficit.
   Some  analysts  fear  a  political stalemate could delay action on the
   deficit and hamper recovery efforts.
   Britain's  election  commission  said  legal challenges to some ballot
   results  are  likely  after hundreds of people throughout Britain were
   locked out of polling stations when they closed at 10:00 pm.
   There are reports of people being unable to vote in London, Sheffield,
   Birmingham and elsewhere.
   Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.

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