Timeline for How can the UK Labour Party get a majority without a plurality of the popular vote?
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 4:54 | comment | added | alephzero | ... and the Conservative/Liberal coalition of 2010-2015 tried and failed, because the Liberal leader insisted on pursuing his party's policies to introduce proportional representation as part of the coalition deal, That policy was decisively rejected, kicking any other electoral reform into the long grass at the same time. The 2015 Conservative government started to address the problem, but the process was left incomplete when PM Cameron resigned. The current government has bigger problems to address than electoral reform, so the constituency boundaries will soon be unchanged for 20 years. | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 4:49 | comment | added | alephzero | The basic reason in the UK is that redefining the boundaries of electoral constituencies lags behind the movement of the population, often by several years. Urban constituencies which tend to vote Labour therefore tend to have a smaller electorate than rural constituencies which tend to vote Conservative. Since redefining the boundaries requires parliamentary legislation, there may be no incentive for the government to correct this "problem" - for example the Blair and Brown Labour governments from 1997-2010 never attempted to correct it. | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 6:29 | answer | added | LateralFractal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 3:45 | comment | added | Publius | it can happen in other single member plurality district systems. in 2012, House Republicans received fewer votes than House Democrats, but retained a majority | |
| Oct 21, 2014 at 3:11 | history | edited | worldofjr |
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| Oct 9, 2014 at 16:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPolitics/status/520248807364120576 | ||
| Oct 8, 2014 at 3:38 | answer | added | Vincent | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Oct 8, 2014 at 2:40 | history | asked | worldofjr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |