With results still coming in, Corbyn calls on May to resign

Jeremy Corbyn.
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It was supposed to be a landslide victory for Prime Minister Theresa May and the Conservatives, but as the United Kingdom waits for the final results of Thursday's snap election to come in, exit polls and official tallies point toward a possible hung Parliament.

May called for the election in April when her party was 20 points ahead of its main opposition, the Labour Party. May wanted to have a stronger mandate before Brexit talks, but a projection has the Conservatives at 318 seats, eight away from the necessary number of seats for a working majority and down from 330, with Labour, led by Jeremy Corbyn, picking up seats for a projected total of 267.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.