Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party won a surprisingly solid victory in the British general election on Thursday, reports The New York Times Newspaper.
According to the Newspaper, projections and partial results Friday morning show that the party will at a minimum come close to winning an overall majority in Parliament.
Even if the Conservatives fall short of a majority, Mr. Cameron now appears all but certain to remain prime minister, with the choice of working with at least two smaller parties or trying to run a minority government.
The vote was a significant disappointment for the Labour Party and its leader, Ed Miliband, who saw his hopes of ejecting Mr. Cameron from Downing Street dissipate overnight.
Labour was nearly wiped out in Scotland by the surging Scottish National Party and did poorer than pre-election polls had suggested it would in the rest of Britain.