LONDON (Sputnik) — Labour Party candidate Catherine West has won over the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency in the UK general election, taking the seat of the Liberal Democrats' Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office Lynne Featherstone.
West garnered 29,417 votes against Featherstone's 18,359.
According to exit poll results, the Labour Party secured 239 seats in the UK Thursday election, while the Liberal Democrats won only 10. The Conservatives are leading with 316 seats, the BBC/ITV/Sky poll said.
In the absence of a clear leader, the three possible outcomes of the election are a formal coalition, a so-called confidence and supply agreement between the parties, or cooperation on a vote-by-vote basis.
So far, all the parties have spoken out against entering into a formal coalition.
A vote-by-vote cooperation is the least binding agreement for the participants and allows the parties to keep their stance unchanged on disputable issues. Labour leader Ed Miliband said he was willing to have a vote-by-vote partnership with the Scottish National Party during the last BBC Question Time debate.