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PROGRESS WINS BIG IN BRITISH ELECTION
Rex Willbore
06:15 GMT (01:15 ETZ) May 5, 2017
London (CNN) - Britain's ruling Party, National Progress, has won its fifth consecutive Parliamentary election and increased its already substantial majority as the nations main opposition groupings continue to shrink.
State media outlets such as the BBC have reported Prime Minister Alan Milburn's Party has won half of all votes cast, although turnout continues to slump and international election observers have disputed this figure and alleged vote fraud.
With twenty seats yet to declare, preliminary results from the BBC and the Independent National Electoral Commission have predicted that National Progress will win 590 of the 650 seats up for election.
The Liberal-Conservative Alliance, led by Northern Irish Politician and Broadcaster Mike Nesbitt, is expected to win 34 seats and 25% of the vote, taking the role of main opposition from the Democratic Left.
The results proved devastating for Dr Gordon Brown Democratic Left. Both widely viewed as the main alternative to Alan Milburn and National Progress, Dr Brown even outpolling Milburn in preferred Prime Minister polling, the DL is expected to return with less than half of their pre-election seats in a humiliating night following a hopeful and energetic grassroots campaign.
Both are far ahead of the Welsh Credyd Cymdeithasol and the far-right British Patriots Front, who saw their numbers eroded deeply. This slump has been attributed to Credyd Cymdeithasol's strained Leadership of the Welsh Council, although the party saw a healthy increase to their vote.
The results show an encouraging return to form for National Progress, who received only 44.5% of the vote in the 2012 Parliamentary election, the first time the party had polled less than 50% of the overall vote since 2002.
In an official statement, the National Progress NEC Chairman Peter Pewgrew declared that the results were: "Highly encouraging, and showed that the British public continues to intelligently put its trust the only party that can and has delivered stability in the spheres of social, economic, and foreign policy. Many have come out in protest of the results, making outrageous and false claims of fraud. There is no fraud, it's just sore losers."
An estimated two hundred protesters were arrested on the Cardiff University Campus last night. Riots in London were quelled by police action, violent resulting in the deaths of three officers and seventeen protestors. When asked about this violence, Pewgrew responded that it was: "nonsense overblown by foreign observers and so-called-news organisations trying to talk Britain down."
Mike Nesbitt, the new Leader of the Opposition, called the vote unfair, citing allegations of voter fraud and intimidation in seats held by the DL in the coal belt and Scotland, and in the 17 seats lost by the BPF, as well as against his own party on the mainland: "Of course Milburn and his boys faked it- and this Opposition intends to prove it."
Of the Opposition, only Dr Gordon Brown was seen as having the potential to form a new government. Although he proved personally popular with British youth, with the chant "Oh Gordon Brown" unofficially the slogan of the Campaign, Dr Brown was unable to translate this popularity and even good polling numbers into positive political momentum. It is expected that Dr Brown will stand down as Leader later today.