Lessons from the British general election

File pic ballot box at a Polling Station in Oxford, central England. The Conservatives managed to obtain a Parliamentary majority in the recent general election.

ON May 7, the people of Britain voted to elect members of the 56th Parliament.

There are altogether 650 parliamentary constituencies spread out across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Voters vote in order to send one representative to the House of Commons, the dominant House in Britain’s bi-cameral Parliament.