General Election 2015

[dbgtz]

it's 56 out of 59 (according to google) lol, we were only expected 58/59 after the polls

Oh right, well I knew it was 3 less just didn't know the total seats. Still, 3 less than they could have gotten and 1 Scottish Conservative MP means they can't claim about no Scottish representation in government.

I'm not entirely sure but they came out with less seats than they went in with, which is a pretty spectacular failure.

To be fair, to be fair, they might just win all the 3 undeclared seats. You never know!

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I'm not entirely sure but they came out with less seats than they went in with, which is a pretty spectacular failure.

yeah but he lost a few thousand in one constituency, along with their seat, but increased their votes in many other constituencies?
imo it doesn't seem fair. even if it's good for the country, it still means that much people don't have a voice.

[AgnesIO]

yeah but he lost a few thousand in one constituency, along with their seat, but increased their votes in many other constituencies?
imo it doesn't seem fair. even if it's good for the country, it still means that much people don't have a voice.

But more people voted for the other candidate? They would do even worse under other systems.

People did have a voice; the loudest voice was for Conservatives.

[The Don]

yeah but he lost a few thousand in one constituency, along with their seat, but increased their votes in many other constituencies?
imo it doesn't seem fair. even if it's good for the country, it still means that much people don't have a voice.

Oh of course, that's the problem with our voting system... But even with FPTP both UKIP and Labour were predicted to do far better than they did. It was a failure for most parties.

It's also worth keeping in mind that if we had a different voting system people would be more likely to vote differently meaning you can't use these results to see how well a party would've performed under a different voting system.

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If the House of Commons were held under Proportional Representation then this is what the chamber would look like roughly.

Conservatives: 240 seats
Labour: 202 seats
Ukip: 85 seats
Liberal Democrats: 52 seats
SNP: 33 seats
Greens: 26 seats

[AgnesIO]

Also, it's worth noting SNP do disproportionately well too - way less than half the number of votes that UKIP received, and they got 56x more seats.

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If the House of Commons were held under Proportional Representation then this is what the chamber would look like roughly.

Conservatives: 240 seats
Labour: 202 seats
Ukip: 85 seats
Liberal Democrats: 52 seats
SNP: 33 seats
Greens: 26 seats

Looks like Political Gridlock to me.

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i know that dom, same with N.Ireland parties. i mean it seems fair on one hand because it's going by constituencies but it doesn't seem fair on the other cause so much people's vote doesn't count. just wondering if there was a fairer way of voting, regardless of the outcome?

alsoooooooo is the ireland results good or bad? all i saw was "a racist party got majority in n ireland!!111" but ppl say that about any party that wins

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alsoooooooo is the ireland results good or bad? all i saw was "a racist party got majority in n ireland!!111" but ppl say that about any party that wins

Unionists increased their seats in Northern Ireland so in my eyes thats a good result.

If you're an Irish republican on the other hand then obviously that's bad.

[Okeanos]

1 seat is not 3rd place whatever undertaker says.

If the House of Commons were held under Proportional Representation then this is what the chamber would look like roughly.

Conservatives: 240 seats
Labour: 202 seats
Ukip: 85 seats
Liberal Democrats: 52 seats
SNP: 33 seats
Greens: 26 seats

that is only 1 method of proportional representation, figures youd pick the one that shows UKIP in the best light. so predictable. if we had AV then things would look very different indeed. rip ukip we hardly knew yee

[FlyingJesus]

@FlyingJesus; brighton... green party.. hahahah

I know I can't believe those idiots re-elected her after all the troubles they caused. Brighton's got a really weird political makeup; Pavilion went Green, Kemptown went Conservative and Hove went Labour luckily for me I'm in the Conservative stronghold of Worthing East *+*+*+*

Didn't he say that they 'captured more young women', rather than the majority being young women?

That sounds a bit sinister

If the House of Commons were held under Proportional Representation then this is what the chamber would look like roughly.

Conservatives: 240 seats
Labour: 202 seats
Ukip: 85 seats
Liberal Democrats: 52 seats
SNP: 33 seats
Greens: 26 seats

That would be so messy people who want PR must want nothing to ever pass everything to stay exactly as it is forever

Overall far better result than I'd ever hoped for personally, was thinking Conservatives would have to join up with DUP at the very least to keep in power originally. The only real disappointment was Paddy Ashdown refusing to eat a hat

1 seat is not 3rd place whatever undertaker says.

To be fair to him that's not what you said; you said that others had got more votes than UKIP when they didn't