electoral systems Flashcards
When is first-past-the-post used in the UK
General election
When is supplementary vote used in the UK
Mayor of london, police and crime commissioners
When is regional list used in the UK
European Parliament elections in Great Britain; list seats for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and London Assembly
When is single transferrable vote used in the UK
Assembly, local and European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland; local elections in Scotland and Northern Ireland
What was the safest seat in the 2017 general election?
Liverpool Walton - Labour won a 77% majority
What was the most marginal seat in the 2017 general election?
East Dunbartonshire - where the then Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson lost the seat to the SNP by 149 votes (0.28%).
Seats gained from lib dems by conservative and labour
27 seats by conservative
12 seats by labour
1997 tactical voting
Labour Party achieved a swing of 10.2% from the Conservatives, giving it a record tally of 418 Labour MPs and a parliamentary majority of 179.
UKIP
UKIP came second in 120 constituencies but was only within 10% of the votes of the winning party in two of these.
2021 Mayoral election
- Sadiq Khan (labour) - first round 40%, second round 55.2%
- Shaun Bailey (conservative) - first round 35.3%, second round 44.8%
- Siân Berry (green) - first round 7.8%, second round eliminated
Northern Ireland Assembly election results 2022
- Sinn Féin - 29%, 27 seats
- DUP - 21.3%, 25 seats
UKIP - 2015
got 13% of the national vote but only 1 seat
2007 scottish parliament elections
146,000 ballots were completed incorrectly - led to a change in ballot design
2016 mayoral elections
382,000 electors did not use their second preference vote and 220,000 cast it for the same candidate as their first preference. Another 1.5 million second preference votes that were not for the top two candidates did not affect the result.
2011 election referendum on AV
68% against
