BBC reports that the exit polls after today's parliamentary elections suggest a big win for the conservatives led by David Cameron. The Brown led Labour got thrashed and the Liberal Democrats of Nick Clegg just managed to hang on to their seats.
From BBC
Early general election results suggest the Conservatives are on course to be the largest party in a hung parliament.
The Tories are hopeful of gaining enough seats to govern, although they may fall just short of a majority.
The Lib Dem vote is unchanged on 2005 and Labour down 4.1% after 72 results. The Conservatives are up 3.8%.
There are also reports of people being unable to vote and lawsuits are in the offing.
The exit poll results that the conservatives will fall short of majority by about 20 seats.
But Brown is not done yet and Clegg is tight-lipped about a coalition government.
Although projections suggest he would have to get agreement from the Lib Dems and Welsh and Scottish nationalists, Downing Street sources have suggested Labour leader Gordon Brown will try to form a coalition government if there is a hung parliament.
He will argue that the sitting government has the first right to form an administration even if it is not the biggest party, the sources said.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson said striking a deal would be the "grown-up and mature" thing to do, adding that he did not think the Lib Dems could form a coalition with the Tories.
He said Labour had "a lot in common" with the Lib Dems - particularly on electoral reform.
Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey refused to be drawn on whether his party would form an alliance, saying: "Nick Clegg has made very clear that we want to wait and see what the results are."
I was rooting for libdems and it is disappointing to see them not improve much over the years.
There is still a small hope that these are only exit polls and not the actual results.
The poll also anticipates the Lib Dems will perform better in England than in either Scotland or Wales, but a fall in his number of MPs would still come as a blow to Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who has been neck-and-neck in the polls with the other two main parties for much of the campaign.
It remains to be seen whether the poll proves to be accurate in its estimate of the Lib Dem performance - deputy leader Vince Cable told BBC News it was "very strange" and insisted such polls had been "horribly wrong" in the past.
He said his party expected to have gained a lot from postal votes, as they were ahead in some opinion polls when those votes were cast.
Well, that's it.
Note: I didn't see any diary on this so far. If it is diaried already, I'll delete this.
Edit: Title changed from definitive to a question mark. :)
Update from that BBC piece:
Under the rules of Britain's constitution, the sitting prime minister is allowed to try to form a government before the leader of the largest party, in the event of a hung Parliament.