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FPTP and 2010
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- 1Possible to increase your number of seats without increasing your share of the votes-cons increased seats by 33, but share of vote stayed almost same at 32.3%.Possible to become the gov with far less than 50% of the vote. The labour party won this election with only 35.2%.
- 2Smaller parties can gain a considerable share of the vote but still fail to gain a single MP. UKIP gained 12.3% of the vote without winning a constituency. BNP increased vote by 0.55%, but gained no seats.Although Lib Dems, increased share of vote to 22%, only increase their number of seats to 62 from 51. Under a system of pure PR they would have gained 142 seats.
- 3Above all, the elections confirmed that millions of votes can be seen as wasted by nor being translated into seats.2010 leading days up to election-says FPTP could not even produce a working government, while advocates of the system declared that this proved that winners were not necessarily parties with unfair majorities.
- 4Just days to go, 3 Labour ministers, including ED Balls, openly advocated tactical voting. Startlingly suggested voting for Lib Dems, where seemed no chance of Labour winning in that constituency. Confused, turnout just over 62%.Conservatives won more seats from Labour than they had done since 1931. Hundreds excluded from voting when queueing outside polling station. Con majority of 62 seats in England, no majority in U.K.
- 5Average no. of votes needed to elect Labour MP in Scotland-25,258. """ a con MP In England-33,371. """" a Lib Dem across the U.K-119,788.Election increased number of ethnic minority MPs from 14 to 27 only and no of women by 2%. Forecast the coalition would run into early difficulties over important issues such as defence spending, immigration and electoral reform.
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