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Originally Posted by frogstamper

Sadly they are far to few on all sides, I think voting reform is a certainty after this election as whoever becomes the largest party they are currently very unlikely to get more than 35% of the vote, hardly a ringing endorsement for the unpopular cuts to come, if ever a party needed a proper mandate to push through these cuts its now.
At present the next government will be decided by about a 100 key marginals, mainly in the Midlands, meaning the vast majority of us have an almost pointless vote.
If your a Labour voter in the south or a Tory voter in the north apart from a few key seats your vote is meaningless, surely a system whereby the overall votes a party achieves is preferable to the current system?
If a party can only get 35% of the vote when only 60% of the eligible public vote our democracy is in poor shape indeed.

Exactly. Yet whoever wins a majority of seats will claim they have a "mandate" to govern.