Living in a safe seat? Worried your vote might not count? Let’s talk about Short money. That’s funding allocated to opposition parties to assist them in holding the government to account. It’s calculated from seats won AND for every 200 votes gained by the party. #GE2109
It’s quite a lot of money. The amount payable to qualifying parties in 2018/19 was £17,673.65 for every seat won at the last election plus £35.30 for every 200 votes gained by the party. researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefi…
So every vote counts, even in the safest seat in the country. #GetOutAndVote
Here is the allocation of Short money in 2018/19.
(The DUP did not join the Government and sat as an opposition party, although they had a confidence and supply agreement with the Government. Consequently, they continue to qualify for Short money.)
(The DUP did not join the Government and sat as an opposition party, although they had a confidence and supply agreement with the Government. Consequently, they continue to qualify for Short money.)
Short money is made available to all opposition parties in the House of Commons that secured either two seats or one seat and more than 150,000 votes at the previous General Election.
So the Greens only got one MP in 2017 but because of all the votes they got in seats they did not win they were allocated £112,888 in Short money last financial year.
