Sirena Bergman
Dec 14, 2019

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It's not going to be new information to anyone that our first-past-the-post system creates a serious disparity between what people actually vote for and what our parliament ends up looking like.
But these figures doing the rounds on Twitter shows just how bad things are.
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According to the Electoral Reform Society, it took nearly 900,000 votes to elect one green MP, compared to, for example, 38,300 votes to elect a Conservative MP.
The Conservatives have won a majority on a minority of the vote, with an increase in seat share high above their increase in vote share.
The SNP have also been highly over-represented, while Liberal Democrat voters have been short changed.
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People are understandably outraged, and #MakeSeatsMatchVotes has been trending all day.
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Some have been sharing their own analyses of what different voting systems would have achieved in this election.
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