Disproportionality in UK electoral system
Apr. 20th, 2010 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbA neat interactive demonstration from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
With the three main parties getting equal shares of the votes, Labour very nearly have a majority of the seats. (Though there are clearly some slightly strange assumptions at the limits, because "Other" still get 24 seats if you set their share to 0.0%, and Northern Ireland only explains 18 of them.)
(via http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/19/lib-dems-soar-in-uk.html)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm
With the three main parties getting equal shares of the votes, Labour very nearly have a majority of the seats. (Though there are clearly some slightly strange assumptions at the limits, because "Other" still get 24 seats if you set their share to 0.0%, and Northern Ireland only explains 18 of them.)
(via http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/19/lib-dems-soar-in-uk.html)
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Date: 2010-04-21 04:54 pm (UTC)But that's a detail, and the whole thing is an approximation, obviously. (That doesn't make it foolish, it would just be foolish to read more into it than is there.)