{"id":72165,"date":"2015-05-08T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=72165"},"modified":"2015-05-08T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:08:14","slug":"uk-elections-results-show-conservatives-surprise-by-winning-more-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2015\/05\/uk-elections-results-show-conservatives-surprise-by-winning-more-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"UK elections results show Conservatives surprise by winning more seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2491314768\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">May 8, 2015<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much anticipated UK elections took place on Thursday, with the exit polls pointing to the likelihood of a Conservative victory.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron may very well remain at 10 Downing Street while the Labour party is on course for its worst loss since 1987.<\/p>\n<p>As the results come out from each constituency, it was becoming quite evident that the Conservatives were gaining more seats in parliament and seemed set to overturn expectations. If the exit poll proves correct the Conservatives could form a majority coalition with their current partners, the Liberal Democrats. In terms of seats, the Conservatives are at 316 seats, Labour Party at 239, the Scottish National Party at 58 and the Liberal Democrats at 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish National Party (SNP) surprised many as they are set for an unprecedented landslide victory north of the border and swept aside the Labour party. Labour election chief Douglas Alexander lost his seat to the SNP\u2019s Mhairi Black, a 20-year-old university student.<\/p>\n<p>Ukip (UK Independent Party) has its first-ever MP \u2013 Douglas Carswell, who defected from the Conservatives, retained his seat in Clacton while Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg retained Sheffield Hallam.<\/p><div id=\"inves-2823659200\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by ForexTime The much anticipated UK elections took place on Thursday, with the exit polls pointing to the likelihood of a Conservative victory. Prime Minister David Cameron may very well remain at 10 Downing Street while the Labour party is on course for its worst loss since 1987. As the results come out from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72181,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72165\/revisions\/72181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}