Why I'm in favour of Proportional Representation

[andrewducker]

According to the BBC, the current polls show Lib Dems on 33%, Conservatives on 32%, Labour on 26%.
Which would give a seat allocation of Conservatives: 246, Labour 241, Lib Dems: 134.
Or, in a more easily digestible table format:

Party	Percentage	Seats
Lib Dems	33%	134
Conservatives	32%	246
Labour	26%	241

It should be pretty fucking obvious that this is an electoral system that is fucked in the head.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Of course it does rely on people thinking that the government ought to be representative.

I can see arguments that it shouldn't be entirely representative - that the wacky 1% on the fringe ought to be ignored. But a system where the party with the highest percentage of the vote gets the lowest number of seats? If people can't see that that's utterly wrong, then they aren't democratic at all.

[simont]

"We do not live in a democracy, Bernard. We live in a British democracy. There's all the difference in the world." :-)