General Election June 2017

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JWestland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rGX91rq5I

A nice video explaining how badly skewed parliament is VS total votes thanks to FPTP...

(NI has STV for Stormont, c'mon Parliament get the finger out....)

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tbc in reply to @JWestland

That's for 2015, obviously, but it would be interesting to see how it's worked out for 2017. A bit more proportional, I think, given that UKIP's geographically-dispersed vote has disappeared. The Tories are a little over-represented, Labour are a little under-represented, and SNP probably still the main beneficiary of the disproportionality.

I used those videos for teaching electoral systems to my Politics class, they're great.

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Greenbank in reply to @tbc

Way down. I work it out as 20.42%

For the major parties (more than 2% of the vote):-

Con vote=42.4% seats=48.9% diff=6.5%
Lab vote=40.0% seats=40.3% diff=0.3%
SNP vote=3.0% seats=5.4% diff=2.4%
LD vote=7.4% seats=1.8% diff=5.5%

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