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Re: To AV, or not to AV?
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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.
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But that breaks the local representation and accountability link, which I believe is very important.
btw, Scunthorpe in 1997 had a Labour majority of nearly 15K - in the by-election, it was down to 2.5K; things can change.
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