Posted by Hari on Friday, May 08, 2015 with 1 comment | Labels: elections, Labour, LibDems, MP, politicians, the government, Tories
Fee, Chris and KJ do the maths...
SOURCE BBC NEWS
SOURCE GUARDIAN: Election result is
‘nail in the coffin’ of first-past-the-post voting system
Britain’s’s first-past-the-post voting system has been
declared broken and unfit for an era of multiparty politics as analysis of
general election figures showed that it had delivered the least proportional
result in the country’s history. Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society (ERS)
showed that, of almost 31 million people who voted, 19 million (63% of the
total) did so for losing candidates. Out of 650 winning candidates, 322 (49%)
won less than 50% of the vote. Katie Ghose, chief executive of the ERS, said: “This
election is the nail in the coffin for our voting system. First past the post
was designed for a time when nearly everyone voted for one of the two biggest
parties. But people have changed and our system cannot cope.” She added: “One
of the features of our broken voting system is that it accentuates divides. For
instance, those who vote Conservative in Scotland have gone almost
unrepresented, as have Labour voters in rural southern constituencies or
Conservative voters in northern urban seats. The UK is at a constitutional
crossroads, so the last thing we need is a voting system that pits nations and
regions against each other. Ukip received 3.86m votes for the one MP it had
elected to the Commons. The Greens got 1.2m votes and only one seat. This
compared with an average of 26,000 votes for every SNP MP, 34,000 for every
Conservative, 40,000 for every Labour MP and 299,000 for every Liberal
Democrat.
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