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14,000 in the right places could easily topple a government in a tight election because of FPTP - although one can obviously not choose in reality. In 2017 for

by mhh__ 3y ago

14,000 in the right places could easily topple a government in a tight election because of FPTP - although one can obviously not choose in reality. In 2017 for example the minimum number of votes across the country needed to take down Theresa May (or more realistically have her form a true minority government) was something like 2500. We have an extremely disproportional electoral system.

peterfirefly 3y ago
That would have been 2500 in exactly the right places. 2500 in exactly the right places could also have given the Conservative Party even more seats. If we are talking about 0.25% on average then I doubt it could have changed much in these local elections (back in May in England and Northern Ireland). If anybody wants to play with the data from the General Election in 2017 they can do so here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2017_United_Kingdom_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2017_United_Kin... Sort the table by "Mjrty." in ascending order. Right at the top we see wins for SNP, Labour, SNP, Labour, and Labour that easily could have been wins for Lib Dem, Tories, Tories, Tories, and Tories.