A case for electoral reform

[mirrorshard]

(simplistic, obviously, but it's a nice illustration)

If the number of seats won reflected the popular vote (as reported by the BBC, with 634 649 of 650 649 seats declared), we'd have this.

CON 235
LAB 189
LIB 150
UKIP 20
BNP 12
SNP 11
Green 7
Alliance 1
Other 24

(and one still to come)

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Gordon Brown's just made the case for a referendum in his statement!

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

So has David Cameron!!

With various caveats about strong, stable govt, but even so...

[oneplusme.livejournal.com]

Just one problem: where would you find 12 Nazis bright enough to sign their names on the forms?

(Living as I do in seat so safe the Tories could put up Vlad the Impaler and still get over 50% of the votes, PR can't come soon enough.)

[robert-jones.livejournal.com]

I don't think Alliance 6 can be right: they only got 0.1% of the vote.