It has been estimated that in the 2017 election, 22 million votes were ‘wasted‘!
Question – Why were so many votes wasted?
Answer – With First Past The Post (FPTP) voting, a candidate needs just one more vote than any of the other candidates to win. If this is less than 50% of the votes, then there are more ‘wasted’ votes than winning votes! (In 2015, over 1⁄2 of the MP’s elected did not get 50% of the votes). Did you have a ‘wasted’ vote in the 2015 election?
Q – Is there a voting system that will not waste so many votes?
A – Yes, Party Percentage Proportional Representation – 25% votes = 25% seats.
PPPR uses ’One vote on One voting paper’ in multi – seat constituencies, as
shown below in the EPC 59/1 West Cornwall 2017 FPTP/ PPPR results .
Did you have a ‘wasted’ vote in the 2017 election?
Q – Why should we have Proportional Representation?
A – To truly reflect the ‘Notion of the Nation’ and ‘What the voters voted for’.
Q – If we had had PR in 2015, would we have Brexit?
A – Most unlikely. Conservatives 11,334,576 votes = 331 MPs. 34,243 votes for a seat. UKIP 3, 881,099 votes = 1 MP. UKIP 2nd in 120 constituencies, and all those votes were ’wasted’. They were not ‘wasted’ in the EU referendum!
Q. How many votes were ’wasted’ in the 2016 EU referendum?
A. For 17,410, 742 = 51.89%. Not for 16,141 241 = 48.11%. Invalid ’wasted’ 25,359 = 0.08%
Now, with more info, would voters change their mind in another referendum?
Did David Cameron know the true ‘Notion of the Nation‘ with FPTP? PR would have changed it! We have PR in N. Ireland, the Scottish Parliament, and Welsh Assembly. We need it NOW at Westminster. Then the voters will get what the voters voted for!