NEW: Millions head to the polls in UK election
British broadcasting rules prevent discussion or analysis of election issues after the polls open at 7 a.m. local . An exit poll produced by three broadcasters is published when voting closes at 10 p.m. local time, and has in recent years provided an accurate prediction of how the parties have fared.
Most results won't be confirmed until the early hours of Friday morning, with results from some tight races and votes in remote parts of the country delayed until much later that day.In the U.K. there are no separate races to choose the government and the legislature . Here in the U.K. they are combined into one.
The country is split into 650 areas, known as constituencies. People in every constituency vote for one lawmaker they want to send to the House of Commons. Any party that wins 326 seats or more would have a majority in the Commons and therefore becomes the new government. The victorious party leader usually becomes prime minister and selects his or her Cabinet members from their party's newly elected lawmakers.Oli Scarff / AFP - Getty Images
Things get complicated when no party achieves more than 50 percent of these parliamentary seats. That happened at the last election in 2017. Although Theresa May's Conservative Party won more seats than anyone else,The DUP, as its known, is one of the smaller parties that dominate the 18 seats in Northern Ireland, alongside Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Alliance, and the Ulster Unionist Party.
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