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Originally Posted by Hugh
But your example would never happen, as there are not constituencies of those extremes (140k and 39k) - the range (at the moment) is 61k to 86k....
You are also comparing apples with housebricks, when you, on one hand, use constituency figures to support your argument, and then use national voting figures to also support it.
We vote for a local representative to a national parliament - if you want to parliament to reflect the national voting figures, we would need to completely change the way we select and vote our governments (and local and area councils, to ensure democratic evenhandedness).
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I have seen extremes bigger than the gap you mention.
Marginals can be one with a majority of say 10 votes, but a neighboring seat may have a majority of 20k. The value of each vote in different seats varies by huge amounts.
How about a FPTP system but without constituency voting? would you object to that, so simply total tally for entire country. Simple as well.