The Tories are set to get 319, Labour 261, the SNP 35 and the Lib Dems 12. An overall majority requires 326 seats. The BBC understands the PM will try to form a government, but Jeremy Corbyn also ...

At the last election in 2015 the Conservatives were seven points ahead of Labour in the national vote and that secured them an overall majority of 12. So, any poll that puts the Conservative lead ...

Best and worst performance by the Liberal Party or Liberal Democrats The last time the Liberals won an overall majority in the House of Commons was in 1906, when the party won 400 MPs. The 1923 ...

In order to form a government with an overall majority Labour required an 8% swing across the country - far larger than the swing achieved by any political party since the Labour landslide that ...