Stats

[andrewducker]

Inspired by bracknellexile, who sadly left his post flocked:

Party	Votes	Seats	Votes/Seat	Share of Seats/Share of Votes	Seats if proportional
Labour	8,604,358	258	33,350	1.36	204
Conservatives	10,706,647	306	34,989	1.30	254
Liberal Democrats	6,827,938	57	119,788	0.38	162

Comments

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. Nice to see the figures so clearly put (and to not have to work out the number-crunching myself)!

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I always lock posts - force of habit after some bad experiences :)

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

You should extend it to include the BNP/Greens/UKIP/SNP/DUP etc.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

#DIV/0!

(ok, not for all of them)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

A perspective compared with last time.

Party	% of vote (current)	% Voter Change	Previous Seats	% Seat Change	Current Seats
Conservatives	36.1%	+3.8%	209	+46.4%	306
Labour	29%	-6.2%	349	-26%	258
Liberal Democrats	23%	+1%	62	-8%	57

[zz]

Add seats won under a perfectly proportional system?

[andrewducker]

Done!

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I've been listening to some (intelligent) commentary on your election, which has been interesting.

It seems to me that the upshot is: The British people don't really trust any of the three major parties, (for good reason,) and the vote result shows they hope these people will find a way to work together to solve Britain's deep problems.

Even with this recent result, I still admire your political system. The two-party-winner-take-all approach here in America has led to divisiveness among the citizens, and we know our system is hopelessly corrupt and too heavily influenced by large corporations and their lobbyists.

I believe that we need to "destroy" our current system, (both at the federal level and here in California,) and replace it with a type of parliamentary system similar to yours, but hopefully more progressive in its inception.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

there's an interpretation of the results that 36% of the people strongly trust the Tories and 27% strongly trust Labour and that they just happen to be distributed such that neither of these two can get a majority of seats.

I think your assertion that people hope they'll work together is probably correct, but it's not directly evidenced by the vote.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

but you share our electoral system - "first past the post" is (AIUI) just the British name for what the USAns call "winner takes all".