Completely agree. I moved from a seat where Labour gets around 80% of the vote (Birmingham Ladywood) to one where the Tories get over 60% (Stratford).
What’s the fucking point in voting in a GE in either?
In 2017, effectively 72% of all votes didn’t count for anything.
In the 2017 election it took 26,000 votes for the SNP to win a seat compared with over 800,000 for the Green Party.
Labour had to gain over 50,000 votes to elect each MP, while the Conservatives needed only 38,000.
In 2015, it was even worse! Over 3.8M votes for the UKIP Party won 1 seat and the greens got 1.1M (300,000 less than the total SNP vote) for one seat.
Whilst the following obviously changed in 2019, given what’s going on, it’s likely most if not all will revert back and some of the stats are quite damning.
- 98 Labour seats haven’t changed hands since WWII (37% of their 2017 total).
- 94 Conservative seats haven’t changed hands since WWII (30% of their 2017 total)
- 65 seats haven’t changed hands since 1918 or earlier (10% of seats) – affecting 4.8m potential voters
- 192 seats haven’t changed hands since 1945 or earlier (30% of seats): affecting 13.7m potential voters
Simple fact is that the government got 44% of the vote, 56% of the seats and 100% of the power. In 2017, if 533 had voted differently, there would have been a majority government and not a hung parliament.
Almost half of all voters are represented by an MP/ party they didn’t vote for. Apparently that’s democracy!!
