United Kingdom 2015 Election Live Results: Polls Show Conservatives Poised For Surprising Gains

The 2015 election in the United Kingdom is in the books, and as outlets offer live results of the voting, it appears as if Conservatives have a surprisingly strong showing that may keep David Cameron as Prime Minister.

Voters took to the polls on Thursday in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Millions of people were expected to cast their ballots, and there are plenty of news outlets offering live coverage of the 2015 United Kingdom elections.

Early exit polls showed that Conservatives have gained ground, with a number of news outlets projecting Conservatives gaining 14 seats in Parliament.

Time Magazine reported on the polls.

“If the exit poll proves correct — with Conservatives at 316 seats, left-of-center Labour Party at 239, the Scottish National Party at 58 and the Liberal Democrats at 10 — the Conservatives could form a majority coalition with their current partners, the Liberal Democrats.”

If that holds, it would keep Prime Minister David Cameron in power.

“It’s an astonishing result,” said Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, a former British Cabinet minister, in an interview with CNN. “If it holds up… the momentum, the authority that this result would give David Cameron and the Tories would be huge, and the body blow to Labour equally big.”

Cameron has already called this the “most important election in a generation,” and had been touting the role the Conservative party played in the country’s economic recovery.

There has even been speculation that the birth of the royal baby — which tends to stir up national sentiment — could be a boost to Conservatives.

But others aren’t so sure the 2015 United Kingdom election will go so heavily toward Conservatives. Others say polling shows smaller gains, which may be enough to keep Cameron out.

“It’s very different from what we’ve been hearing on the ground across the country,” Labour party politician Ed Balls said on CNN affiliate ITN. “I’m not sure this is going to turn out to be right.”

The Labour Party’s Ed Miliband — who would be Prime Minister if it’s not Cameron — said he would raise taxes on the wealthy and stand up against U.S. influence.

“We’re fighting for a Britain where we reward the hard work of every working person,” he said this week, “not just those who get the six figure bonuses in our country.”

Others are predicting that the election results will go down to the wire, with a very close race.

Live results of the 2015 United Kingdom election can be found here or here.

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