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Originally Posted by Stuart
It's debatable whether it has on national level. There has been at least one election where the winner got well under a third of the vote.
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It seems to me that politicians on the whole don't care about falling electorate numbers which in part is due to the fact that many of us have for years been represented by someone we have no faith in and indeed despise and therefore see no point in voting because we never get anyone different.
In my own case it was the Duck House MP whom we had for over 30 years and it took the expenses furore to get rid of him.
If they did care then they would go for a system which gets more people voting..such as fining those who don't bother to vote, if they must stick with FPTP.