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Brian - just numbers!!!
These are number of voters, people, these numbers seriously disadvantage the rural areas and distorts our electoral results.
How can anyone justify that?
In the last election as a result of this inbalance Labour polled 9.6 million votes.
That is equivalent to 35.2% of the total, the lowest share of the vote ever recorded for a winning party at a UK General Election and 5.5% points lower than in 2001.
It is equivalent to 21.6% of the electorate, again a record low for a winning party.
The Conservatives took 8.8 million votes, 32.4% of the total, up 0.7% points on 2001.
Yet with that, the lowest ever share of the vote Labour had a 65 seat majority with 355 seats in the Commons.
Conservatives had 198 seats.
I do not approve of proportional representation because I value the single member/single constituency representation arrangement. The best option to correct what is wrong is not to change the electoral system but to level the consituency playing field.
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