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UK General Election results megathread (a.l3n.co)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Emperor to c/uk_politics

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It's time to see if the polls are right.

Previously: the voting megathread

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 60 points 4 months ago (20 children)

First Past the Post, everybody:

That's:

Conservatives: 19.5% of seats from 22.9% of the vote
Labour: 63.7% of seats from 35.2% of the vote
LibDems: 10.5% of seats from 11.3% of the vote
Reform: 0.6% of seats from 14.5% of the vote
SNP: 1.2% of seats from 2.5% of the vote
Others: 4% of seats from 13.6% of the vote

[–] Mrkawfee 40 points 4 months ago

The two largest parties got less than 60% of the national vote but over 80% of seats. FPTP is preventing us from being what we are: a multi party democracy.

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