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Originally Posted by danielf
If that shows anything, it's how wrong the system is.
Con 33.7% 362 seats.
Lab 16.3% 178 seats.
Lib 20% 75 seats
Other 30% 35 seats.
Conservatives have 3 percentage points more of the popular vote than Other, and get 10 times the seats. Labour have 4 percentage points less than Lib Dem and over twice the number of seats. Smashing thing, Democracy...  |
Exactly why the FPTP is so out of date. Worked well when there were just Whigs & Tories but has failed abysmally ever since.