I woke up this morning to find that I now have a Tory MP. Lets just say it isn’t what I was hoping for. The results for Bristol North West look like this Charlotte Leslie, Conservative 19,115 38.0% Paul Harrod, Liberal Democrat 15,841 31.5% Sam Townend, Labour 13,059 25.9% Robert Upton, UK Independence Party 1,175 [...]
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Election Results: First Thoughts… Progressive Parties Win 53% of Votes but Less than 50% of Seats
Posted in politics, tagged Bristol, Bristol North West, Clegg, election 2010, electoral reform, hung parliament, Labour, Liberal Democrats, proportional representation, UK election on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Voter Power Index
Posted in politics, tagged politics, UK election, voter power index on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to this, living in North-West Bristol my vote is worth just 0.521 of a vote. More shocking than that though, is the fact that this is apparently over twice the average amount of voting power of most UK citizens (the average is 0.253). At first glance this is really useful way of illustrating the [...]
