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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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