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UK Tories to Gain Victory in Thursday Elections With 12% Lead Over Labour - Poll

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The UK Conservative Party will win the coming Thursday parliamentary elections with 46 percent of votes, which is 12 percent more than the forecast result of its main competitor - the Labour Party, a new poll reveled on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Liberal Democrats come third with 7 percent of projected votes, while both the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) are expected to get 5 percent of votes each, the poll conducted by the ICM pollster for The Guardian said.

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The Conservative Party may get 373 seats in the parliament compared to 199 Labour projected seats in the 650-seat UK parliament. Currently, the Tories have 330 seats while their competitors — 232 seats.

The online poll was conducted on June 6 — 7 with 1,532 UK citizens having participated in the survey.

On April 18, UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced her decision to hold an early parliamentary election on June 8 to overcome divisions in the parliament and succeed in the negotiations with the European Union on Brexit.

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