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Look at the Votes Per Seat column 😮 
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When it takes nearly 900,000 votes to elect one party’s MP, and just 26,000 for another, you know the system is not just struggling – it’s bankrupt
BREAKING: Electoral Reform Society predict the election result in half of seats in Britain electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-an… #GE2019
In new analysis, we describe 316 seats as ‘one party seats’ (50% of Britain’s total, i.e. excluding Northern Ireland)
Nearly 23m voters in Britain are in these ‘competition free zones’
The results of a snap election are likely to be clear as mud when it comes to translating voters’ preferences, with vote splitting, wasted votes and unfair results on an industrial scale
One in four (24%) voters are planning on voting ‘tactically’ – rather than for their first choice – increasing the likelihood of random results under Westminster’s winner-takes-all voting system, according to BMG polling for the ERS
Westminster’s voting system rests on a handful of marginals changing hands: “Eleven seats were won by less than 100 votes in 2017. North East Fife was held by the SNP by just two votes. The Conservatives could have won an absolute majority on the basis of just 533 extra votes
