Ballot boxes closed in Great Britain, where today there was a vote in early general elections, called by Theresa May with the sole aim of increasing the Tory majority in Parliament to have greater freedom of movement in negotiations with the European Union. According to the data collected by Ipsos Mori for the exit polls made for the BBC and Sky News, May would not have reached the goal, on the contrary: now according to projections it has 314 seats against 266 for Corbyn. So the Conservative Party wins, but lacks a majority, losing seats compared to Cameron's 331 and the 326 needed to have an absolute majority in Parliament. The Scottish independence party (SNP) is credited with 34 seats (down compared to 2015), the Liberal Democrats are growing with 14 elected deputies (in the last round they were 8), UKIP, the UK independence party, promoter of Brexit, remains dry (two years ago the only seat went to the now ex-leader Nigel Farage).
The sample examined consists of about 20 voters interviewed outside the polling stations of over 100 constituencies considered representative of the general orientation. It must be said that even in 2015 the first exit polls accredited Cameron with only 316 seats, which then became 15 more after the counting of the polls. 46,9 British citizens were called to express their preference for the third time in three years: after the 2015 vote and the referendum that decreed Brexit in 2016, His Majesty's subjects returned to the polls in a climate of fear, following the recent attacks in Manchester and London.
There are 650 single-member constituencies across the UK, and the absolute majority of the Westminster House of Commons is therefore made up of 326 MPs. In the outgoing Parliament, May had a small majority of 17 seats and called an early vote in the hope of strengthening it ahead of Brexit talks. Each constituency is assigned using the "first-past-the-post" method: whoever has the most votes becomes a deputy. Parliament is elected for five years.
