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The United Kingdom is divided into 650 parliamentary constituencies each of which elects a member to the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the British Parliament.

Normally one of the major parties is able to secure a majority of seats in the house and the leader of that party is then invited to form a government by the monarch with him or her self as the Prime Minister.

This means that the prime minister is not directly elected - there is no space on the ballot for anyone to vote for any individual to be the Prime Minister.

In the 2010 election, the Conservative Party won a majority over their nearest rival, The Labour Party, but did not have an overall majority.

They entered into a coalition agreement with the third party, The Liberal Democrats, and the Conservative leader David Cameron was invited to serve with the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.

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