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Originally Posted by Angua
Under the current system it requires less than 37% of the vote for Labour to get a clear majority. Over 40% is required for a clear Conservative majority. With something like 60% or more for a Lib Dem working majority. Hardly a fair or equitable system.
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If you make huge assumptions about the voting for the other parties.
If what people say about FPTP was actually true, landslides like in 97 wouldn't be possible, but they are.
It's why the predictions based on poll swings (not the exit polls) were wrong, you cannot apply a national % swing because it is not the nation voting as a whole, but 650 individual elections.