""LOS T0RIES GANAN, PERO NO PARA GOBERNAR CON MAYORIA".
"Tories Gain but Fail
to Take Parliament".
"07.05.2010."But he offered "far-reaching reforms to our political system" apparently an overture to the Liberal Democrats who have made electoral reform a non-negotiable condition for partnership with other, larger parties in some form of coalition or alliance.
"During the election campaign, Mr. Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, took strong exception to the idea that Mr. Brown might continue to, as he put it, "squat" in 10 Downing Street, if he lost the election, prompting speculation that he would be more prepared to ally himself with Labour if it ousted Mr. Brown in favor of another leader".
"Voting patterns seemed to reflect what Paddy Ashdown, a former Liberal Democrat leader, called a "muddled" situation after the vote".
"Results showed a sharp swing from Labour to the Conservatives in seats in northern England that had been Labour strongholds for decades, with voter shifts from one party to the other that ranged from 5 to 11 percent".
"And early returns from central and southern England suggested a similarly strong shift to the Conservatives in some cases as high as 10 percent that raised, at least briefly, Conservative hopes of gaining a clear majority".
"But the overall picture was spotty, with the Conservatives not posting the consistent gains across the country that they needed, and with the Labour vote holding up far better in some areas, especially Scotland, than in others".
"Notably, the Conservatives failed to win several seats that were high on a list of 116 that they identified as the most promising targets".
"Perhaps the biggest surprise was the lackluster performance of the Liberal Democrats, who failed to make the major breakthrough that many had expected after the show-stealing performance of Mr. Clegg, the party leader, in three televised election debates that were the centerpiece of the campaign".
"Election experts said a final picture of the count would probably not be available until early afternoon on Friday, and that in a close finish between the two parties, results from some outlying areas, such as distant parts of Scotland, could take much longer".
"One count, in Northern Ireland, was suspended because of a bomb scare, a reminder of the decades of sectarian violence that raged before the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998 that the Labour government counts as one of its major achievements".
"In dozens of other seats, voters gathered angrily outside polling stations after officials shut the doors as the voting hours expired with hundreds of would-be voters still waiting in line".
"The BBC said that the national turnout appeared to have been substantially higher than in the last election, in 2005, when barely 61 percent of an electorate of about 45 million people cast bal...
"Toby Melville/Reuters".
"David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, spoke after being re-elected to his seat in Parliament. More Photos »".
"During the election campaign, Mr. Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, took strong exception to the idea that Mr. Brown might continue to, as he put it, "squat" in 10 Downing Street, if he lost the election, prompting speculation that he would be more prepared to ally himself with Labour if it ousted Mr. Brown in favor of another leader".
"Voting patterns seemed to reflect what Paddy Ashdown, a former Liberal Democrat leader, called a “muddled” situation after the vote".
"Results showed a sharp swing from Labour to the Conservatives in seats in northern England that had been Labour strongholds for decades, with voter shifts from one party to the other that ranged from 5 to 11 percent".
"And early returns from central and southern England suggested a similarly strong shift to the Conservatives in some cases as high as 10 percent, that raised, at least briefly, Conservative hopes of gaining a clear majority".
"But the overall picture was spotty, with the Conservatives not posting the consistent gains across the country that they needed, and with the Labour vote holding up far better in some areas, especially Scotland, than in others".
"Notably, the Conservatives failed to win several seats that were high on a list of 116 that they identified as the most promising targets".
"Perhaps the biggest surprise was the lackluster performance of the Liberal Democrats, who failed to make the major breakthrough that many had expected after the show-stealing performance of Mr".
"Clegg, the party leader, in three televised election debates that were the centerpiece of the campaign".
"Election experts said a final picture of the count would probably not be available until early afternoon on Friday, and that in a close finish between the two parties, results from some outlying areas, such as distant parts of Scotland, could take much longer".
"One count, in Northern Ireland, was suspended because of a bomb scare, a reminder of the decades of sectarian violence that raged before the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998 that the Labour government counts as one of its major achievements".
"In dozens of other seats, voters gathered angrily outside polling stations after officials shut the doors as the voting hours expired with hundreds of would-be voters still waiting in line".
"The BBC said that the national turnout appeared to have been substantially higher than in the last election, in 2005, when barely 61 percent of an electorate of about 45 million people cast ballots". "John F. Burns reported from London, and Alan Cowell from Par...
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