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Keeping things in proportion: how can voting systems be fairer?
Author(s) -
Thompson Gavin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00440.x
Subject(s) - voting , general election , political science , law and economics , political economy , computer science , law , economics , politics
In the 2010 UK General election the Conservative party won 36% of the votes – but 47% of the seats. The Liberal Democrats won 23% of the votes and just 9% of the seats. Does the first‐past‐the‐post system really give results that reflect voters' wishes? Gavin Thompson looks at alternatives.

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