What happened in the most recent UK election?

In the most recent UK election the Conservative party won again but however this year winning majority of the seats meaning not needing to join another party which is known as coalition government. The Conservative party was founded in 1834 and over the years gained a lot of popularity and also criticism by other parties such as Labour who have also been around for many years. The Conservative and Labour Parties have been the main two groups who have run for Prime Minister;  however in the most recent election it could be argued that there was a possibility that a new face could have had the chance to govern the UK.

With the turn out many leaders of parties decided to resign after the shocking out come; the polls gave off a complete different expectation of the outcome than what actually occurred. For example with the opinion polls there wasn't an huge difference between the Milliband and Cameron, but when the outcome was announced there was a fair difference with Conservative winning 331 seats in parliament and Labour only winning 232; bbc say that it gave the Conservative a slender majority.

In more detail many parties lost seats with the House of Commons, one party who got slaughtered horrendously by having the seats reduced from 57 just to only 8 was the Lib Dem. With the outcome it caused Nick Clegg the leader of Lib Dem to resign from the party. But he wasn't the only one who decided to resign after losing to the Conservative party , also Ed Miliband the leader of Labour decided to resign due to being defeated he claimed all responsibility for the defeat and members of his party losing their seats. Another one who resigned was Nigel Farage decided to quit after he failed to be elected and losing 50% of his seats only leaving him with 1.

How ever it wasn't all doom and gloom for all of the parties, because one party did extremely well. Scottish National Party won 56 out of 59 seats in the House of Commons taking away seats from Labour as people argued that the Labour didn't represent them. This could be deemed as ironic as last year there was a referendum to decide whether Scotland wanted to be independent and leave the UK how ever the voting turn out was a no, but the party has grew massively with the recent election.