Am I missing something?

[flakeypaul]

From Sky News

'The Ipsos Mori survey puts the Conservatives at 36%, Labour at 29% and the Liberal Democrats at 27%.

According to Sky News ready reckoner that would give the Tories the most seats - 279 - but no overall majority.

Labour and the Lib Dems would take 261 and 79 seats respectively'


Why would 36% of the vote give the tories 279 seats, 29% give Liebour 261 seats but 27% give the Lib Dems just 79 seats? Surely it should be proportionate?

[greygoose]

If we had proportional representation then it would be proportionate, but we don't so it isn't.

[MiniMan64]

You aware that the electrol system is completely buggered in this country aren't you?

[AndrewW-G]

Simple answer is that labour have spent the past 13 years fiddling with the boundaries to ensure that they stay in power, even if most people want rid of them.

Have a look at a map of each constituency changed and you'll notice that where there is a large concentration of what would be perceived as affluent households, the boundary has been changed where possible to include a less affluent area, that traditionaly has included more people likely to vote for the Nazi/Scum/labour party

One of the many crimes, for which the labour leadership deserve to swing from the gibbet for.

Edited by AndrewW-G on Thursday 6th May 19:49

[Dan_1981]

First Past The Post.

Load of ballcox.

[Puggit]

Flakeypaul said:

Am I missing something?

Yes, lots of other threads on this subject!