The 2015 election as run, and under a "List PR" system. |
A blog about politics in the UK and the US designed for students of Edexcel Government and Politics Units 1, 2, 3C & 4C. Updated irregularly by teachers of History and Politics.
Monday, 1 June 2015
2015 election - the most unfair ever?
Sadly this came out too late to be of use to the Unit 1 paper taken this morning, but perhaps would be useful in future. The Electoral Reform Society has published research explaining how the 2015 election was the most "disproportionate in history". The BBC has a report about it here, and includes a set of graphs comparing the result of 2015 and then the same if run under a different voting system. To illustrate using List PR:
Great stuff for anyone contemplating electoral reform in Unit 1. Props to AJB for the tip.
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2015 election,
AS,
FPTP
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