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As early results come in from around Britain after a closely fought campaign, an exit poll has suggested that the Conservative Party Leader David Cameron will return to office as Prime Minister. The poll puts the Conservatives on 316 seats in Parliament, just short of an overall majority. The main opposition Labour Party has described the exit poll as inconsistent with survey throughout the campaign which forecast a close finish. Here's our political correspondent Rob Watson.

The first result from across the UK 650 constituencies appears to confirm the exit poll's prediction of a truly dramatic outcome of Britain's general election. David Cameron and the Conservatives have done far better than expected, and Labour and the Liberal Democrats disastrously worse. Most striking of all perhaps is the possibility that the Scottish National Party could win as many as 58 out of Scotland's 59 seats. As to the other so called smaller parties the anti-EU UKIP and Greens, it seems they have won many votes, but the Britain's electoral system means that has not translated into more than a handful of seats.

Despite being the largest party, the poll suggests the Conservatives will need to form a coalition, or lead a minority government. The former Conservative Minister Ken Clarke said it was overwhelmingly likely that David Cameron would stay as Prime Minister.

It's far too soon to start speculating about what sort of government we formed, who do deals with whom, but David's had a good result, much better I think than most people expected, and the chances of David Cameron carrying as his Prime Minister are overwhelmingly likely, but it's gonna be a different sort of government and a different sort of Parliament.

But Labour's shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has questioned the exit poll results. Even if the poll is right, the overall impact of that is that the coalition has lost its majority. It had a majority of 73. That now seems to have disappeared. And that I think does mean that, you know David Cameron said that he was aiming to win the majority, he has failed to do that and it does look like that this is very difficult even on this exit poll for him to command the confidence of the House of Commons.

The landslide victory predicted for the Scottish National Party north of the border reflects the surge in support it enjoyed since failing to secure independence in last year's referendum. Most of their gains would be at the expense of Labour. Colin Blane is at the count in Glasgow.

Green faces Labour camp here in Glasgow. I was talking for example to the SNP team watching Glasgow northeast which is the hardest of all the seats for them to win, and they say they are well ahead here. Elsewhere the story is similar. So it looks as if Labour are on track to lose all 7 Glasgow seats. And bear in mind that 6 of these seats have majorities of more than 10 thousand.

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