Unic Press UK: The outcome of the 2017 UK Elections [306 seats for the Conservatives and 254 for the Labour Party as of this moment] has shown that no political party won the minimum number of seats in parliament to govern the United Kingdom outright. In effect, a hung parliament has been triggered.
Results – The top 5 in terms of number of parliamentary seats won
- Conservative – 318 seats
- Labour – 262
- Scottish National Party – 35
- Liberal Democrat – 12
- Democratic Unionist Party – 10
What is a hung parliament?
A hung parliament is triggered when no single political party has an overall majority. It means that none of the political parties were able to win at least 326 parliamentary seats, which is the number of Member of Parliament (MP) seats required for a political party to have full ‘control’ and to run the government outright.
In the event of a hung parliament, which is the case apropos of the 2017 UK general elections, there would be a series of negotiations among the political parties, leading to a coalition government being formed by two or more parties, as was the case when the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government in 2010.
