Exit poll springs surprise in UK election with conservationists as winners

London, May 08 (ANI): Londoners voiced their surprise at the exit poll released as voting ended on Thursday for a general election that was believed to be the closest race in a generation. The exit poll showed the Conservatives were just short of a majority despite opinion polls repeatedly showing a neck and neck race that was too close to call in the run up to the vote. Alexander Mavroneon, a labour supporter said he is hoping the exit polls emerge as significantly undermining Labour. Another Labour supporter still had hope that Labour could find a way into Downing Street. The poll forecast the Conservatives would win 316 of 650 seats in the lower house of parliament and the main opposition Labor Party 239. If accurate, that would be center-left Labor's worst result in almost three decades and it faced being wiped out in its former Scottish stronghold.