As UK elections near, polls point to hung parliament

Pre-election polls suggest Britain is steering towards a hung parliament, as main opposition Conservatives maintained their lead over ruling Labor party weeks ahead of the vote.

Two opinion polls published on Sunday indicated that neither party seems set to score an overall majority in the May 6 vote.

The ICM survey has given the Conservatives 38 percent of votes, six points ahead of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor party, while a You-Gov poll for the Sunday Times yielded similar results.

The centrist Liberal Democrats, the likely kingmakers if the scenario is repeated in the elections, came third with an estimated 19 percent of voter support.

This would be the country's first hung parliament in more than four decades.

A party would need at least 326 seats in the House of Commons out of 650 for a clear majority win. Labor currently holds 346 seats, the Conservatives 193, and the Liberal Democrats 63.

Source: PressTV.
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