With no clear victor emerging from Thursday's election, a wounded May has signalled she would fight on.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home for the count center in Islington, London, Britain on June 9, 2017. It was also created to give the government more time to complete the process by ensuring that the incoming administration would have a clear five years before having to call an election.
Despite the potential need for deals between the parties, many have ruled them out. Labour had won 261 seats.
One senior European Union official has suggested that Mrs May winning a smaller majority could delay Brexit talks, which are due to start 11 days after the election.
When Theresa May called the snap election in April the Tories held a majority of 17 seats.
After being re-elected with an increased majority in the London commuter seat of Maidenhead, May said Britain "needs a period of stability" as it prepares for the complicated process of withdrawing from the European Union. "If, as the indications have shown, the Conservative Party has won the most votes and the most seats, it will be incumbent on us to ensure that period of stability and that's what we will do". "That would prevent another election, because I think people have had enough of elections".
Her opponents also took issue with her refusal to take part in a televised debate with other party leaders.
"Her position I think is very, very hard".
Theresa May could opt to avoid a coalition and try to run a minority government, meaning the Tories would have to rely on the support of smaller parties when trying to get laws passed.
The survey predicted the Conservatives will get 314 seats and the Labour Party 266.
He says "with a weak negotiating partner, there's the danger that the negotiations will go badly for both sides".
Conservative member of parliament Anna Soubry was the first in the party to disavow May in public, calling on the prime minister to "consider her position".
"We live in a country where a bit of drizzle is commonplace", said John Curtice, an election expert at Strathclyde University.
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May had unexpectedly called the snap election seven weeks ago, even though no vote was due until 2020.
In the event Cameron won with an an overall majority of 17, which May inherited when she became prime minister in June past year.
Earlier on Friday, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said that if May loses her majority it would be "completely catastrophic" for her and the Conservative Party. Sterling, which had hit a two-week high of $1.2978 in morning trade after earlier polls had suggested a Conservative victory, dived to around $1.2780.
Rachel Sheard, who cast her vote near the site of the London Bridge attack, said the election hadn't gone as expected - and that it certainly wasn't about Brexit.
British voters dealt May a devastating blow, denying her the stronger mandate she had sought to conduct Brexit talks, Reuters reported.
But her campaign unravelled after a policy u-turn on care for the elderly, while Corbyn's old-school socialist platform and more impassioned campaigning style won wider support than anyone had foreseen.
Then attacks that killed 30 people in Manchester and London twice brought the campaign to a halt, sent a wave of anxiety through Britain and forced May to defend the government's record on fighting terrorism.
That did not help May, who in her previous role as interior minister for six years had overseen cuts in the number of police officers. The former leader, Alex Salmond, lost his seat, as the Conservative Party made some rare gains in Scotland.
Polls suggest Labour has narrowed the Conservatives' lead.
In the end, it was the Brexit Election - just not in the way everyone predicted.
The opposition Labour Party, which gained dozens of seats on Thursday, also called for May to go.
"The pound dropped about 1.6 percent to trade above $1.27 in the immediate aftermath of the projection, which was published as soon as voting ended at 5 p.m. ET".
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