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Labour Takes Control of Hornsey And Wood Green, Home of Lib Dem Cabinet Min

© AFP 2023 / LEON NEALA bookmaker displays the latest odds on the result of the upcoming UK general election outside the Houses of Parliament in central London on May 6, 2015
A bookmaker displays the latest odds on the result of the upcoming UK general election outside the Houses of Parliament in central London on May 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Labour Party candidate Catherine West is taking the seat of the Liberal Democrats' Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office Lynne Featherstone.

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.

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband waves at a campaign event in Colne, northern England, Britain, May 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
UK's Labour Party Take 1 Point Lead Over Tories on Election Day Poll
Both of UK's leading parties, the Labour and the Conservatives, have been polling at some 34 percent prior to the election, which is not enough to form a majority government.

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.

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