Counter-Extremism
and the 2015 British Elections
by Samuel Westrop
• May 1, 2015 at 5:00 am
On May 7, the British electorate will go to the polls in the 2015
general election. Voters will elect their local members of parliament. It
seems voters may not, however, be able to choose their next government.
As in 2010, current polling data suggests a hung parliament, in which no
political party can achieve an outright majority. Governance requires the
confidence of the House of Commons. Of the 650 parliamentary seats, then, a
ruling coalition requires the backing of at least 326 MPs.
For the past five years, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative
Party has retained the confidence of the House through a reasonably
successful and stable coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
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