Here is how people intend to vote
and this is what our votes will translate into by way of seats
The two charts don’t marry. The two largest parties (Labour and Conservative at the moment) are likely to get roughly the same number of seats as before despite being projected to get the lowest share of the vote since 1945.
For years, the Liberals have argued that we should move to proportional representation and for years the two largest parties have been able to wave this call away.
Now we look likely to have the party with the third largest amount of votes having only a handful of MPs. Put together, the Lib Dem, Reform and Green parties are likely to have more voters than the Conservatives and possibly Labour. Next week, Reform say they will turn their guns on Labour but what they really need to do , is to work with other parties whose policies they don’t agree with, to reform our voting system.
Every vote should count
For too long, many people have not turned out to vote, because they think their vote won’t count. In Australia everyone has to vote but we needn’t go that far. We can create a system where every vote counted. We may not be able to change the course of politics with our vote, but similarly, we all should be able to vote with conviction , rather than on a tactical basis.
