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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whovian" data-source="post: 404666" data-attributes="member: 57872">It's the First Past the Post system - there's been calls for many years from small parties for it to be overhauled but the argument for it is that it brings strong governments as they usually get a majority of seats in parliament by being ahead on vote share (as they won more of the 650 separate constituency contests). Although this election is a particularly egregious example of the disproportionality given the Reform/Con vote splitting. Traditionally it's left and centre-left parties that lose out due to it, so it's nice to see Labour benefit for a change - and that's from someone who supports PR.Clegg tried to get AV brought in during the coalition but the issue was even those who supported PR didn't want AV.</blockquote>