General Election June 2017

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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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duncs in reply to @Greenbank

The absolute difference doesn't make much sense. Seats per vote shows things better imo.

Con Vote=42.4%, Seats=48.9% Seats/Vote = 1.15
Lab Vote=40.0%, Seats=40.3% Seats/Vote = 1.01
SNP Vote=3.0%, Seats=5.4% Seats/Vote = 1.8
LD Vote=7.4%, Seats=1.8% Seats/Vote = 0.24

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