Richard AshwellJul 6, 2024

Biggest-ever gap between number of votes and MPs hits Reform and Greens

The gap between the share of total votes won by the winning party in the 2024 general election and the share of Parliamentary seats won is the largest on record, BBC Verify has found.

This disparity has prompted renewed calls for reform of the electoral system, with Richard Tice of Reform UK complaining on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday of the “injustice” that his party had received millions of votes but only five seats in Parliament.

The Green Party’s co-leader Adrian Ramsay said he wanted to see a “fairer system” to ensure that “every vote counts equally”.

The Electoral Reform Society claimed it was “the most disproportional in British electoral history”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c886pl6ldy9o

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Large gap between vote share and MPs hits Reform and Greens

Labour's win is the most disproportionate on record, BBC Verify finds, as parties call for change.

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Show threadDavid HomerNov 28, 2022
@LeftieStats Who is comfortable about ANY party having a majority of 86? Time for ALL parties to commit to #ProportionalRepresentation and #MakeAllVotesMatter. On the other hand, if a Labour government with that sort of majority set about restoring and rebuilding the NHS, education, public housing, policing and criminal justice, public transport, environmental protection, and everythibg else that the #ToryCriminals have so assiduously trashed...
David HomerNov 22, 2022
@jackprice What choice do we have? NOT voting tactically for Labour risks returning the #ToryCriminalsUnfittoGovern candidate if Labour is best placed to take the seat. We can hope that a small Labour majority and more Liberal Democrat and Green MPs will result in #ProportionalRepresentation to #MakeAllVotesMatter to transform our politics.
David HomerNov 17, 2022
"Labour crashed the economy" at the time of the international banking crisis, but the present crises have nothing to do with the Party that's been in government for the past 12 years?
#Budget #Chancellor #CostofLivingCrisis #Inflation #GeneralElectionNow #ToryCriminalsUnfittoGovern #NHScrisis #MakeAllVotesMatter
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