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IPFS News Link • Voting and Elections

Clean Sweep by UK Conservatives Masks Huge Rifts

• MIKE SHEDLOCK

In a surge of nationalism that will likely lead to a call for another independence referendum, the Scotland National Party (SNP) won 56 seats of 59 seats. 

Nigel Farage did not win his seat, but he will be around. So will UKIP. It appears UKIP did not take votes from the conservatives, but rather its anti-immigration platform took votes from Labour. 

Major Outs
Ed Milliband - Labor Leader - Resigned

Nick Clegg - Liberal Democrat Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister - Resigned 

Ed Balls - Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labour - Not Reelected

Jim Murphy - Scottish Labour Leader - Not Reelected

Douglas Alexander - Labour Campaign Manager - Not Reelected  

Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Business Secretary - Not Reelected 

Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat Treasury Chief Secretary - Not Reelected

Liberal Democrats - Lost 49 of their 57 Seats


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