国际英语新闻：Tories win but miss overall majority in Britain's election

LONDON, May 6 (Xinhua)-- A major exit poll commissioned by the BBC, ITV News and Sky News on Thursday night projected that Britain's Conservative Party won but just missed an overall majority.

The exit poll has been revised, but the outcome remains the same -- a hung parliament.

The revised poll projected the Conservatives would win 305 seats in the 650-seat parliament, ahead of Labor with 255. The Liberal Democrats were projected in third place with 61 seats. Small parties got 29 seats.

Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron (R) leaves with his wife Samantha after voting in Oxfordshire, England, May 6, 2010. British voters went to the polls on Thursday morning as up to 50,000 polling stations across the country opened in the most tightly contested general election in decades.

The poll made the Tories the largest party with seats in the House of Commons, but leave them 21 seats short of the 326 members of Parliament the Conservative Party leader David Cameron needs to lead a majority government.