2024-07-15 19:55:34
Labour won 411 seats out of the 650 contested in July "Their current working majority is 180. This takes into account the non-voting Speaker and their deputies, and non-sitting Sinn Féin MPs. " [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-1-1) Author
2024-07-15 21:19:21
The UK has a “First Past the Post” system where voters vote per constituency. Percentage of voters nationally voting for a party is not used in this system and therefore extrapolating party popularities from the GE results is not possible. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-1-1) Author
2024-07-15 21:34:42
In 2011 a UK-wide referendum was held to ask if the voting system should be changed from first past the post to an alternative vote system. The UK voted to keep the current system with a result of 67.9% saying no to change [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-1-5) Author
2024-07-15 23:30:14
NNN - the first half of the tweet is completely true and the second half is an opinion, these notes are all irrelevant put them in the comments if you truly need to say them. NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-1) Author