Right Now: Prime Minister Theresa May will try to form a minority government, after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority.

• Mrs. May’s decision to call an early election in the hopes of expanding the Conservative Party’s majority in the House of Commons disastrously backfired.

• Mrs. May, who became prime minister after the “Brexit” referendum on June 23, batted away calls to resign. After meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, she said she would try to form a government with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.

• With votes in nearly all of the 650 House of Commons constituencies counted, the Conservatives won 318 seats — short of the 326 needed for a majority. The Labour Party had 261 seats, the Scottish National Party 35 and the Liberal Democrats 12, with the remainder held by small parties.