3. The UK electoral system doesn't work like that.
PMs are party leaders - the party with the most constituencies becomes the government (there are about 650 constituencies), and the leader of that party becomes PM. It as though one of your congressmen was leader of the Democratic party and another was leader of the Republican party, and the leader of whichever party has more votes in Congress becomes President automatically.
So every four or five years we vote. But we only vote for our local member of parliament - not for a president or PM. The Queen is our "head of state" in terms of forming and disbanding governments (in theory) - In practice we vote for parties and members, not PMs.
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