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Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2015

The inequity of UK's election results 2015

By Girish Menon

Party
Seats
Gain
Loss
Net
Vote (%)
Change (points)
Total Votes

Conservative
331
38
10
28
36.9
0.5
11.3 ml
Labour
232
23
48
-25
30.4
1.5
9.3 ml
Scottish National Party
56
50
0
50
4.7
3.1
1.4 ml
Lib Dems
8
0
49
-49
7.9
-15.2
2.4 ml
DUP
8
1
1
0
0.6
0
.18 ml
Sinn Fein
4
0
1
-1
0.6
0
.17 ml
Plaid Cymru
3
0
0
0
0.6
0
.18 ml
SDLP
3
0
0
0
0.3
-0.1
.09 ml
UUP
2
2
0
2
0.4
n/a
.11 ml
UKIP
1
0
1
-1
12.6
9.6
3.9 ml
Green
1
0
0
0
3.8
2.8
1.1 ml

The Electoral Reform Society, a campaign group, has modelled what would have happened
 under a proportional voting system that makes use of the D'Hondt method of converting votes to seats.


FPTP v PR