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

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

You'd prefer our system where you only get two choices and the congressional elections are spaced out so as to almost guarantee that a president elected to a four year term will only have 18 months of a friendly party running congress to get anything done, followed by two and half years not being able to get anything done because the opposing party controls congress?

[andrewducker]

No, really not.

[matgb]

Dude; Congress is elected using pretty much the same system we use for the Commons. Just because you have 2-year terms and the insanity of a directly elected executive doesn't actually change the basic voting system.