Britain has not had a general election quite like this one in living memory. There were shameful scenes at a number of polling stations, as voters tried-and in some cases failed-to vote. The results, when they arrived, seemed to follow few dis-rncernible patterns. And, as The Economist went to press at breakfast-time on May 7th, the country seemed set to return its first hung parliament since 1974, albeit one in which David Cameron's Conservatives had accumulated considerably more votes and seats than Gordon Brown's Labour Party.
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