Thanks to the backward First-Past-The-Post voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority in Westminster with only a minority of British votes.

dwazou@jlai.lu · edit-2 12 days ago

Thanks to the backward First-Past-The-Post voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority in Westminster with only a minority of British votes.

SpaceShort@feddit.uk · 9 days ago

So much for “FPTP keeps out extremists”.

HeartfulBadger@feddit.uk · edit-2 7 days ago

Unfortunately (in this case), if a party starts to get 30% of the popular vote or somewhere around that, it’s going to start winning seats in FPTP elections.