Make Seats Match Votes – Previous Palace Yard, Westminster, London. Saturday twenty fifth July 2015
In our current UK basic election there have been a little bit over 48 million registered voters, though solely round 29 million bothered to vote. Of those marginally over a 3rd voted Labour who ended up in a landslide victory with 411 of the 650 Parliamentary seats – round 63% – virtually two-thirds of our MPs.
The Tories received 23.7% of the votes – virtually 1 / 4 of the votes and gained 121 MPs, round 18.6 % of seats. The Lib-Dems did fairly higher with their 12.2% of the votes gaining 72 seats, 11% of MPs, however as an entire the smaller events did extraordinarily badly.
The three foremost events collectively received just below 70% of the votes, leaving 30% to the opposite candidates. Collectively these resulted in round 40 MPs, round 6% of the overall.
Worst hit by our loopy first previous the submit electoral system was Reform, who truly polled extra votes – 14% – than the Lib Dems, however solely 5 seats.
It’s additionally price declaring that Labour’s vote share and whole vote of 9,708,716 underneath Keir Starmer was significantly lower than in 2017 when Labour underneath Jeremy Corbyn received 40% of the votes, a complete of 12,877,918 on a better turnout. Corbyn was not solely extra well-liked, however his candidacy elevated the curiosity in politics within the UK.
It’s clear from the figures that Labour didn’t win the 2024 election, however that the Tories misplaced it, with Reform splitting the right-wing vote to supply the Labour landslide.
The outcome was a Labour authorities which no less than appears more likely to be much more competent than the Tories who had clearly misplaced the plot. They appear to have hit the bottom working, if not all the time within the appropriate course and I’m involved about their plans for the NHS, housing, poverty, Israel and extra.
However we desperately want an electoral system that extra clearly displays the desire of the folks. There might be arguments about what can be the easiest way to try this, however I feel one thing utilizing a single transferable vote system – marking candidates so as of choice 1,2,3.. and many others, maybe with a celebration checklist for the Higher Home (which clearly ought to not be the Home of Lords) can be preferable.
I’ve solely ever voted as soon as for a candidate who ever turned an MP though I’ve voted in each election since I used to be sufficiently old to vote in 1966. A yr or two earlier than his dying in 2017 I met Gerald Kaufmann MP and amused him by telling him he was the one MP I had ever voted for again in 1970 when he was first elected as MP – for Manchester Ardwick.
This yr as standard for the place I dwell we received one other Tory MP, although he solely received 30% of the vote. Labour might have received had that they had a very good native candidate, and the Lib-Dems and Reform weren’t that far behind. On any smart voting system we’d now virtually definitely not have a Tory MP. Although no less than he appears more likely to be a fairly higher constituency MP than our earlier absentee member.
My account of the protest on Saturday twenty fifth July 2015 considers the outcomes of the 2015 Common Election, “essentially the most disproportionate UK election ever” till 2024 and the images display the issues of photographing the type of photo-opportunity that appears nice to its artwork director however is extremely problematic to us photographers with ft on the bottom.
A map of the UK made with colored balloons to indicate the constituencies in several colors sounds a good suggestion, however as I commented, it “would have regarded fairly spectacular from a helicopter, however seen at floor degree was fairly disappointing.”
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