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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2010-04-19 01:26 pm

Why I'm in favour of Proportional Representation

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.

[identity profile] oldbaldchris.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I would prefer them to be underweighted as you put it and keep a basically two party system. I am not in favour of coalitions in the slightest and a stronger libdem/liberal or whatever the fuck they are called now party will just mean more coalitions in the future. We have one now in Germany and its a bloody waste of time.