> ...unlike the USA, it takes less than 12 hours to work out who our prime minister is.
>

Well, we already know who our President is. It's Bill Clinton. Even if someone swept all 50 states on election night, they wouldn't be officially confimed the President-Elect until the second Wednesday in December. It always take a little over a month to offically work out who our next President is. What's wrong with that?

So in the UK, immediately after the votes are counted the new PM steps up to take control of your nation? There's no transitional period?

-Faux "wondering" Pas