We had a General Election in the UK this week. We use a first-past-the-post system in our General Elections, which isn’t particularly representative.
I’m not going to say too much about this but I thought it was interesting to see how many votes each party received in relation to the number of parliamentary seats they got…
| Party | Seats | Votes | Votes per seat |
| Conservative | 331 | 11,334,920 | 34244 |
| Labour | 232 | 9,347,326 | 40290 |
| Scottish National Party | 56 | 1454436 | 25972 |
| Liberal Democrat | 8 | 2,415,888 | 301986 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 7 | 184260 | 26323 |
| Sinn Fein | 4 | 176,232 | 44058 |
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | 181,694 | 60565 |
| Social Democratic & Labour Party | 3 | 99809 | 33270 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 2 | 114935 | 57468 |
| UKIP | 1 | 3881129 | 3881129 |
| Green Party | 1 | 1157613 | 1157613 |
Update Places to do something about it: Electoral Reform Society; Avazz.
