Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

how can Scotland have 57 snp mps on 1.1million votes yet ukip got 3.9 million
one seat the system is sick and must end other wise it is worthless to vote in general elections its rigged

it's called first past the post dickhead
i thought you thought of yourself as someone with political intelligence and knowledge

That's not very nice cynic .

maybe but warranted :-)

Lol

Maybe he can sort Greece's problems out too while he's there.

We need TANKER as our radical !!

you've got fred
isn't that more than enough?

Fred's more than enough as evidenced by those squelching him, and he's too biased.
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CYNIC YOU ARE THICK IMMIGRANT .
THE POINT OF THE POST IS SIMPLE HOW CAM 1.1 M VOTES GET 57 MPS
AND 3.9M VOTES GETS 1 MP
THE SYSTEM STINKS AND IT IS WORTHLESS TO VOTE IN ENGLAND
NO WONDER VOTERS DO NOT BOTHER BETTER TO RIOT ON THE STREETS FOR ACTION
YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE A CHILD OF IMMIGRANT RUNNING AWAY WITH A WHITE FLAG WHO DITCHED THEIR COUNTRY IN ITS HOUR OF NEED

I WOULD NEVER MY FATHER DIED FOR NOTHING SAVING PEOPLE NOT WOTH SAVING

So if a party won 100 per cent of votes in the UK's largest constituency but fell into second place in multiple other constituencies, it would take just one parliamentary seat. Another party could have far fewer votes overall but take more seats simply because it was marginally the most popular party in a number of very small constituencies.



All the results for the 650 seats are now in, and the Tories are firmly in power with a 51 per cent majority. If you considered just the number of votes they received, they would still have won, but Labour would be much closer behind. The charts below show how for the Conservatives, just 36.9 per cent of votes translated into 51 per cent of seats. By contrast, Labour's 30.5 per cent of votes translated into the much more similar figure of 36 per cent seats.



But of all the parties, it is SNP that has benefited most from this disparity - the party's 4.7 per cent of votes meant it ended up with almost double that percentage of parliamentary seats.



Ukip is the biggest loser under the current system, since it has won just one parliamentary seat despite winning the third highest number of votes overall. Nigel Farage stepped down as leader of the party after losing to the Conservative candidate in Thanet South.

con 36.9
lab 30.5
ukip 12.6
lib 7.8
snp 4.7
green 3.8


what a rotten system yet the gov would not except this result as a yes vote in strike action

put it another way lib green ukip got

24.2% of the vote and got 10 seats their is something very wrong
and snp get 57 seats for 4.7%

Exec and JB,

It is good that you stand for you own freedom to post what you feel appropriate , but at the same time not allow others the same right!

Interesting trait.

One step up from Tinker.

Fred , how often do you post ? it's constant ! the elections over ,lighten up a bit ,you'd have more fun ...

Here you go this should lighten you up ..

Our voting system stops the crazies and the bigots getting anywhere

cynic thinks he is the only one to have views and ever one else does not have the right to them
cynic if can not take it try not trying to give it out

MrT - i have no problem at all with others having a poke at me just as i have no problem with sticking my head above the parapet

i understand the argument against first past the post, but it also has its merits and has certainly withstood the test of time

although pr works well enough in some countries, i look at the disaster pertains in israel and shudder

cynic I am a person who likes honesty
the system is now out of date times have changed
the voting system must be changed or it will not be worth voting
that is why 40% do not bother now I am thinking the same
I had hell of job to tell my children to start voting now think they are correct
pointless