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Originally Posted by punky
Clegg is still going on about the constituency boundaries to change to equal sizes so its obviously something that will happen.
Are they going to make them smaller or bigger?
I can't see how anyone but Labour will win out of this. Or if that is supposed to be the point.
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Equalising the constituencies was actually a Tory idea, designed AFAIK to counter the current alleged bias in favour of Labour.
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Originally Posted by Angua
This would need a version of PR which neither the Tories or Labour would consider. Why is it with huge swathes of countryside does Scotland not manage to have more than 1 Tory MP? Surely they have similar views as those in the shires  |
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Originally Posted by punky
Because they are Scottish and not English? Scottish people tend not to vote Tory at all.
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Scottish vote share / MPs for the 2010 GE:
Tories - 16.7% / 1 MP (out of 59 seats)
Lib Dems - 18.9% / 11 MPs (out of 59 seats)
It's not that people in Scotland don't vote Tory, it's that they're more spread out, so FPTP means their votes don't particularly count.
Using PR for Westminster elections would actually help the Tories in Scotland, as they'd actually get more than just the one MP.
[The only reason the Tories have 16 MSPs in Holyrood is because elections for the Scottish Parliament use the
Additional Member System (AMS)... if it used FPTP the Scottish Tories would be screwed, just are they are for Westminster]