UK: PM Brown suffers fresh election shock

LONDON (AP) -- British prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing fresh woes after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds.

The Scottish National Party overturned a big Labour majority to take the seat of Glasgow East. Voters were replacing lawmaker David Marshall, who resigned for health reasons.

Labour won Glasgow East by more than 13,000 votes in 2005, but this time a huge voter swing saw Scottish nationalist candidate John Mason take it by 365 votes.

Mason said his victory was "not just a political earthquake -- it is off the Richter scale."

Britain's main opposition leader is calling on Brown to call an early national election after his summer holidays.

Conservative party leader David Cameron said Britain needs change, "and that's how change should come about."

The defeat is Labour's third by-election loss in recent months.

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