The final seat, contested in yesterday’s general election, returned its result just before 5pm today.
The resulting number of seats won, as collated by the BBC, are distributed as follows:
- Conservative: 306
- Labour: 258
- Liberal Democrats: 57
- Democratic Unionist Party: 8
- Scottish National Party: 6
- Sinn Fein: 5
- Plaid Cymru: 3
- Social Democratic and Labour Party: 3
- Green Party: 1
- Alliance Party: 1
- Independent (Sylvia Hermon): 1
The Conservatives have won the most seats in the House of Commons. However, they do not have more seats than all the other parties put together. This means that no party has won an absolute majority. In other words, its a hung parliament.
So, Gordon Brown still holds the keys to Number 10 Downing Street but will be ‘living out of his suitcase’ until the main party leaders can decide the form of the next UK Government.
649 out of a total of 650 seats have been declared. The seat for Thirsk and Matlon remains to be decided on 27th May. Its election was postponed due to the death of one of the candidates.
Based On Data Sourced From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/
