Poll: British Parties Tied Ahead Of Thursday's Election

The last poll conducted before Thursday's U.K. general election shows the two main parties tied at 33 percent, meaning a hung parliament is potentially inevitable.



A hung parliament is when no party wins an overall majority of 326 seats in the 650-seat lower house of parliament.



The last British election in 2010 ended in such a hung parliament and led to the creation of a coalition government between the center-right Conservative Party and centrist Liberal Democrat Party.



The poll, conducted Monday for the Sun newspaper, put the center-left main opposition Labour Party on 33 percent, tied with the Conservatives.



Both parties have been swapping miniscule leads for months, with neither managing to break though the three-point margin of error.



The Liberal Democrats were on 10 percent, the right-wing anti-EU, anti-immigrant UKIP on 12 percent and the left-wing Green Party on 5 percent.



The U.K. general election will take place on May 7, 2015.



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