LONDON (AFP/REUTERS) - British exit poll shows Conservatives are on track to win most seats (316) but with no outright majority, defying a neck-and-neck race with the centre-left Labour party.
Mr Ed Miliband's Labour party is likely to win 239 seats, according to the forecast on Thursday night after the ballot closed, with the Scottish National Party (SNP) winning 58 seats, which would be a massive surge in support from the six seats they held in the last parliament.
The Liberal Democrats, junior partners in Cameron's coalition government, slumped to 10 seats from 56 currently, according to the poll.
However, former leader of Liberal Democrats, Lord Paddy Ashdown, the man who ran its current leader Nick Clegg's campaign, reacted with disbelief to the first news on the BBC.
"If this exit poll is right...I will publicly eat my hat on your programme", he said.
For the moment, the first seat in Houghton and Sunderland South has gone to the Labour party.
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