Courtesy of Mish.
The UK results are in. The pollsters could not have been more wrong. The expected result was a close vote and a hung parliament. Instead, Labour and the Liberal Democrats got pounded. Here are the Final Tallies from the Guardian.
In a surge of nationalism that will likely lead to a call for another independence referendum, the Scotland National Party (SNP) won 56 seats of 59 seats.
Nigel Farage did not win his seat, but he will be around. So will UKIP. It appears UKIP did not take votes from the conservatives, but rather its anti-immigration platform took votes from Labour.
Major Outs
- Ed Milliband – Labor Leader – Resigned
- Nick Clegg – Liberal Democrat Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister – Resigned
- Ed Balls – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labour – Not Reelected
- Jim Murphy – Scottish Labour Leader – Not Reelected
- Douglas Alexander – Labour Campaign Manager – Not Reelected
- Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Business Secretary – Not Reelected
- Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat Treasury Chief Secretary – Not Reelected
- Liberal Democrats – Lost 49 of their 57 Seats
Wow
How could the polls have been so wrong?
Clean Sweep Masks Huge Rifts
The Financial Times reports David Cameron Sweeps to Victory in UK Election.
David Cameron, UK prime minister, has swept back into Downing Street after a dramatic election victory, winning an outright majority for his centre-right Conservative party.
Britain faces an unprecedented strain after triumph for leftwing Scottish nationalists who won all but a handful of Scotland’s seats, becoming the third-largest party in Westminster just eight months after losing an independence referendum.
The election result also sets the stage for a bruising fight over Britain’s membership of the 28-member EU. Mr Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on continued EU membership and wants to win back more control over some issues from Brussels….
