UK Conservative’s to secure absolute majority: BBC reports

by Shivendra Singh · May 8, 2015

Britain’s PM and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

Britain’s Conservative party is poised to secure an effective parliamentary majority, a BBC projection showed on Friday with more than 70 percent of results declared.

Out of the 563 seats counted, the conservatives have won 265, showing indications of a clear majority. The Labour Party, completely wiped out by the SNP in Scotland, has won 212 seats so far.

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The Conservatives are on course to win 325 seats in the 650-seat parliament, which amounts to a working majority because four lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein party will not vote.

An exit poll released on Thursday night as voting ended gave the Conservative 316 seats in the lower house of parliament and the main opposition Labour Party 239.

Source:: Indian Express