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The popular vote/seats division was pretty fucked up again:
Popular vote
Conservatives 36,2 %
Labour 29 %
Liberal Democrats 23 %
Seats summary
Conservatives 288
Labour 241
Liberal Democrats 51
doesn't make any sense. Labour gets 6 % more votes than LibDem but effectively wins 5 times (!!) as many seats in parliament. It's almost arbitrary. Happy the greens won their first seat, even if they're still dwarfed by marginal local parties like Sinn Féin (4 seats), Democratic Unionist (8) and Plaid Cymru (3). LibDem's popular vote result was over 20 times as large as that of for example the Democratic Unionists but only have 5 times their seats. Bizarre.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Fri May 07, 2010 1:59 am
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- Labour held 55% of all seats in parliament, but only won 35% of the total votes
- In the last elections, 1 out of 3 Brits voted for another party than Labour or the Tories, but 6 out of 7 MP's in parliament are a member of these parties.
- LibDem got 22% of the total votes last year, but only won 9% of the seats in parliament
Not to mention that because of the counties each voting seperately, marginally strong but very localized regional political movements (Northern Irish parties, Welsh, Scottish movements) get seats while smaller parties that are less bound to a region but rather to an ideology (and thus have a wider spread of votes and less chance of winning a county) like the greens can't even make it into parliament.
Also, think of the amount of votes who go "well I COULD vote party X, but as they have no chance of beating labour or the conservatives in our county I probably shouldn't bother". That's a strong factor too.
No, I think the political landscape may be very different with proportional representation. That is not to say that it doesn't have it's fucked aspects too, but given the level of jadedness with Labour and the conservatives in the UK it may be time to actually give another party a decent shot.
Statistics: Posted by Rinox — Wed May 05, 2010 12:27 pm
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Again i'm not entirely bothered about the Lords and HP's in light of politics as a whole but it would make perfect sense to dissolve them.
Statistics: Posted by derf — Wed May 05, 2010 11:21 am
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I'd like to see the pirate party come to the US, preferably with the same success it's had in some European countries.
Statistics: Posted by Satis — Wed May 05, 2010 9:59 am
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