3.1 electoral systems

Question 1

in 2019 only 30% of votes cast had an effect because of votes for parties in constituencies where that

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party didnt win or because of surplus votes in a constituency for a party that won

Question 2

in 2019 the conservatives needed under 40k votes per seat while the greens needed

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over 800k per seat

Question 3

in 2024 labour needed 24k votes per seat while reform uk needed

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over 800k per seat

Question 4

in the 2015 election there was a huge disproportion of seats throughout the FPTP system as UKIP won 12.6% of the vote but

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only revived one seat

Question 5

in the 2024 GE there is a disproportion of seats through the FPTP system as reform Uk won 14.29% of votes yet only

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received 5 seats

Question 6

in the 2024 GE there is a disproportion of seats through the FPTP system as greens won 6.39% of the vote share and gained

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4 seats

Question 7

in the 2024 GE there is a disproportion of seats through the FPTP system as lib dems became the third largest party by winning 12.22% of the vote share but with

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72 seats

Question 8

smaller parties vote share had drastically increased due to

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tactical voting against cons (46.6%)

Question 9

in the 2024 GE labour won a landslide victory with the a vote share of 33.7% gaining

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63.2% of seats in HOC

Question 10

FPTP keeps out extremist parties , in 2010 the BNP won 1.9% of the vote which would translate to

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12 seats under PR , but under FPTP they got 0 seats

Question 11

however using the FPTP system George Galloway from workers party of Britain us elected as

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the new Rochdale MP in 2024 with 40% of vote share
- did loose his seat to labour in 2024 GE

Question 12

Sadiq khan won the mayoral election for a third consecutive term in 2024 with

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43.8% of the vote , highest majority so far

Question 13

in the 2011 Scottish parliament elections (AMS) labour won almost half of the constituency seats with just

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32% of the vote
then corrected by the closed party lost and ended up with 29% of seats

Question 14

in the 2011 Scottish parliament elections (AMS) the SNP won just 16/56 regional seats (29%) despite winning

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44% of the regional votes

Question 15

SV : only in 2016 has a London mayor won more than

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50% of the total ballots (Sadiq khan)