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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
As early results come in from around Britain after a closely-fought campaign, an exit poll has suggested that the Conservative Party leader, David Cameroon, will return to office as Prime Minister. The poll predicts Conservatives on 316 seats in Parliament, just short of an overall majority. The main opposition1, Labour Party, has described the exit poll as inconsistent with surveys throughout the campaign, which forecast a close finish. Here is our political correspondent, Rob Watson.
“The first results from across the U.K.'s 650 constituencies appear to confirm the exit poll's prediction of a truly dramatic outcome to Britain's general election. David Cameroon and the Conservatives have done far better than expected, and Labour and the Liberal Democrats2 disastrously3 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-E.U. UKIP, and Greens, it seems they may 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 would need to form a coalition4 or lead a minority government. The former Conservative Minister, Ken5 Clarke, said it was overwhelmingly likely that David Cameroon would stay as Prime Minister.
“It's far too soon to start speculating about what sort of government we'll formed, who to deal with whom. But David has had a good result, much better I think than most people had expected, and the chances of David Cameroon carring on as Prime Minister are overwhelmingly likely. But it's going to 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 exit 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, what David Cameroon said was that he was aiming to win a 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 landslide6 victory predicted for the Scottish National Party north of the border reflects the surge in support it enjoyed since failing secure independence in last year's referendum. Most of their gains would be at the expense of Labour. Colin Blane is at a count in Glasgow.
“Grim faces in the Labour count here in Glasgow. I was talking, for example, to the SNP team watching Glasgow's northeast, which is hardest of all the seats for them to win, and they say they are well ahead, they are 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 majority of over ten thousand.”
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“Poland saw in the 70th anniversary at the stroke of midnight with a 21 gun salute10. In his speech, Poland's President, Bronislaw Komorowski, said the war started with the cooperation of two totalitarian regimes led by Hitler and Stalin. He said the victory over Nazi11 Germany in 1945 did not bring freedom to this part of Europe. Instead, it brought Communism and the Iron Curtain.”
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英国竞争激烈的竞选初步结果已经揭晓，选举后民调表明保守党领袖戴维·卡梅伦将继续担任首相一职。民调预测保守党获得议会的316个席位，不足以赢得绝对多数支持。主要的在野党工党称这次选举后民调与选举中的调查结果不一致，后者预测难分胜负。政治记者罗布·沃森报道。
“英国各地650个选区的初步结果似乎证实了选举后民调的预测，即英国这次大选将出现戏剧性的结局。戴维·卡梅伦和保守党的表现比预期要好得多，工党和自民党惨败。最令人吃惊的可能是，苏格兰民族党可能赢得苏格兰59个席位中的58个。对于其他所谓的小党，比如反欧盟的英国独立党和绿党来说，看起来他们可能赢得了很多选票，但英国的选举系统意味着这并不能转化为几个席位。”
尽管保守党已成为最大党，但民调表明该党需要组建联盟或领导少数派政府，前保守党部长肯·克拉克称戴维·卡梅伦有极大的可能继续担任首相。
“现在揣测我们将组建什么样的政府、由谁来执政还为时过早，但戴维的结果很不错，比大多数人预测的要好，戴维·卡梅伦继续担任的可能性是相当大的。但所组建的政府将是不同的，议会也是不同的。”
但工党的影子内政大臣伊维特·库珀质疑了选举后民调的结果。
“即使民调结果是争取的，最大的影响是联盟失去了多数支持，过去有73个多数席位，但现在看来已经失去了。戴维·卡梅伦所说的是他准备赢得多数支持，但他没能做到这一点。即使是民调这样显示，但对他来说赢得下议院的信心来说还是很难的。”
苏格兰民主党获得的压倒性胜利反映出自从去年争取独立公投失败以来该党获得了更多支持，大部分成果是从工党那里夺得的。科林·布兰在格拉斯哥点票站说：
“格拉斯哥工党的点票点都是严肃的面孔，比如，对于苏格兰民族党来说，争取格拉斯哥东北部的席位来说是最难的，他们自称自己很领先，确实并非如此，情况很类似，似乎看来工党即将失去格拉斯哥的全部7个席位，但要记住的是，其中6个席位有着超过一万人的多数支持。”
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