JohnBM:Liberal » electoral reform http://www.johnbm.com Liberal Musings from the Calder Valley Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why we must have electoral reform? – an illustration http://www.johnbm.com/2010/04/16/why-we-must-have-electoral-reform-an-illustration/ http://www.johnbm.com/2010/04/16/why-we-must-have-electoral-reform-an-illustration/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:13:38 +0000 JohnBM http://www.johnbm.com/2010/04/16/why-we-must-have-electoral-reform-an-illustration/ Tonight’s YouGov daily poll puts the share of the vote as:
Con – 33%
Lab – 28%
LD – 30%

If you visit the bbc swingometer this would be translated into the following seats in Parliament:
Con 245
Lab 276
LD 100

Labour would be the largest party in Parliament despite being third in the popular vote.

Even worse, Labour would have 176 more seats than the Lib Dems.

Bonkers!!!

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The Tories are accusing Brown of trying to rig the electoral system to suit Labour at the next election.

This reminded me of the 2005 Lib Dem conference in Blackpool when I attended an IPPR (I think) seminar with Michael Gove on proportional representation.

In that seminar he waxed lyrical of his “road to Damascus on PR” that came out of the 1997 defeat at the hands of New Labour.

I would be interested to know what Mr. Gove’s current views are on PR and if you can u-turn on the road to Damascus.

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