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UK General Election results megathread (a.l3n.co)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's time to see if the polls are right.

Previously: the voting megathread

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (20 children)

First Past the Post, everybody:

That's:

Conservatives: 19.5% of seats from 22.9% of the vote
Labour: 63.7% of seats from 35.2% of the vote
LibDems: 10.5% of seats from 11.3% of the vote
Reform: 0.6% of seats from 14.5% of the vote
SNP: 1.2% of seats from 2.5% of the vote
Others: 4% of seats from 13.6% of the vote

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a bad day to be criticising first past the post. Labour stole a bunch of seats from Farage with his kill-the-NHS policies, a turd who oughtn't to be allowed to attend D-day celebrations, given that he stands against almost everything that we fought the war for. Not sorry one bit for that disproportionality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every day is a good day to criticise FPTP.

A proportional system would have been to Reform's benefit, but it would also have been to the Green's and SNP's.

IRV would have actually been to Labour's benefit in the two seats I randomly happened to notice. Though I'm sure there would also be some seats where it would've benefited the Tories.

But I think the most important thing is that belief in a better electoral system should not depend on which party world benefit. It should be about creating a more democratic outcome. And what we saw yesterday really highlighted how deeply undemocratic the UK is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Could have had a Labour, LibDem, Green coalition with a helping of SNP with broader positive policies (actual policies, which are currently lacking from Labour) a strong mandate. Instead we have a Labour landslide on a thin voting base. Better than the last lot for sure, but this system is so in need of a reform.

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