AIBU to ask someone to please...

[MuddyMoose]

... explain to me in very simple terms what a Hung Parliament is & what happens now?

Thank you!

I think YABU a bit because it's all over the news at the moment! Everywhere is explaining it.

There about 3 other threads on here explaining it as well.

Look on the other threads or just Google it!

It just means no party has an outright majority - nothing too complex.

Basically we have voted in conservatives. They have the majority vote but they don't have enough elected seats to form a parliament.

So now May has tp either enter a coalition with another party or I'm hazy in the other options.

This will explain the situation, OP.

Thank you to those who actually gave helpful replies.

Yeah it just means no one party has a majority of seats in the house, meaning that if a vote were to come up they would not be able to push through whatever it is they want as they do not have a majority vote.

Options now are for various parties to agree to work together and form a coalition government.

We saw it with the Tories and Lib Dems a number of years ago. It pushes the collective votes of the coalition to the magic number of 326 to achieve a majority vote.

So the Tories currently have 318 seats so if they can get 8 independents or one of the other parties to go into coalition with them they will remain in power.
Alternatively if Labour can form a coalition with Lib Dems, SNP, DUP plus some independents then they would take over power, but that seems unlikely?!?