Electoral reform in the UK?

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.