How would the UK House of Commons look under MMP?

The UK House of Commons uses the first past the post voting system. This system doesn’t proportionally represent the votes cast by the population as there is only one winner in each seat. Hypothetically if one party gained 51% of the votes in every electorate, they would hold 100% of the seats in the house.
New Zealand’s Parliament is modelled after Westminster, but in 1996 New Zealand changed from the first past the post voting system to a proportional system of representation. So how would the house look if the Kiwi’s system was used in the UK?

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[LPSlight]

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YOU: "...New Zealand abandoned the first-past-the-post voting system..."
CGP Grey: "Oh thank God."

[rickenman]

I despise UKIP with a flaming passion, but if they won 12 percent of the vote, they deserve 12 percent of the seats in parliament, period.

[FizCap]

How did UKIP get 12.6% of the votes for the country and only 1/650 seats in parliament lmao

[stephh]

This is why the US needs to get rid of FPTP. No more of it! Any sensible country needs to get rid of it in general.

[HarryHeath]

I know that a lot of people wouldn't want a large UKIP presence due to this system, but that's democracy, everyone, just because it's not your opinion, deserves their say.I personally despise UKIP but if they actually had a serious chance of getting anywhere, then they'd definitely calm down on their large racist tendencies if they ever had a hope of running the country.

[maximilianbeyer]

This sounds almost like democracy. Go away with such wicked ideas

[KendrickMan]

Normally your accent doesn't confuse me, but it just took me until the end of the video to notice you were saying Electorates, and not Illiterates. Time to watch this over again now that I know what you said so the information will stick :P

[Soliloquy]

So, tell me, do you think MMP is a good system? And what electoral system do you think is the best to use?

[Steven-fvxw]

Please do a US House of Representatives under MMP video.

[MichaelGGarry]

For the UK, I prefer a "regional PR" where you take a set number of existing seats that are geographically close together and combine the electorate into a PR vote. For example, starting in the far south west of England (as this is the simplest example!), taking the first 6 seats (which makes geographical sense; 4, 5 or 6 seats would work), which in 2015 were:
St Ives (Conservative)
Cambourne (Conservative)
Truro (Conservative)
St Austell (Conservative)
Cornwall North (Conservative)
Cornwall SE (Conservative)

So Conservatives won all 6 seats. However, they actually got less than 50% of the overall votes cast, meaning that well over 50% of the votes were basically ignored.

If you add all these together into a PR vote, where one party or candidate would need 16.7% of the overall vote to win a seat, you would get (Numbers in brackets are the % change from seats won to votes cast):
Conservatives 3 seats (+6%)
Lib Dems 1 Seat (-6%)
Labour 1 Seat (+4%)
UKIP 1 seat (+2%)
Green 0 Seats (-6%)

Which matches the actual voting much closer, while still giving voters a "local" representative MP.

Far superior to the existing FPTP system. You still only cast one vote, you still get a local representative and you keep the exact same number of MP's, while at the same time creating a much, much fairer voting system that still allows local independents to stand and win.

[dl]

I've gotta hand it to this guy, pronouncing Sinn Fein the correct way, not the way it's spelt

[Squaretable]

This seems like a slightly better version of the Scottish and Welsh Systems (Additional Member I believe?)

Its also quite similar to the London Assembly, which they use Top-Up votes to make the citys assembly more proportional.
However I am a STV man at heart, and while anything would be better than FPP, i think the Kiwis and the Aussies have it right, although Kudos to the Welsh and Scots who seem to do well too.

[AndresTech]

Please do one of these for the 2017 UK election!!

[jameshumphreys]

We definitely need to get rid of First Past the Post in this country; in the voting referendum, I voted for P.V., as a M.P. should have half or over half the votes, and think, this should be the same with the party that is in, however, my cousin, who did politics at Manchester University voted to keep the current system, but admitted, the current system has problems, but P.V. is too smiliar in a sense to F.P.T.P system. The system, we use for Welsh elections, also the Scottish elections and E.U. isn't bad, but in Wales, Labour always wins it, and only form two coalition governments since 1999.

If a party needs 1/2 + 1 seats to get into power in any country, why isn't, the same rules on applied in an elections, the government is meant to be representative by people not seats, Conservatives had 37% of the UK population, that is 63% of the population being ignored; in 2010, Conservative and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition, I voted Liberal Democrats, I didn't remember having a say, if we want to go in coalition with them.

To me, the best voting system would be
preference voting with both accept or reject, a candidate or party
A party or Candidate that must have 50% + 1 person vote or a coalition, also with a 50% + 1 person rule
4/5 individual ballot papers:
constituencies:
regional,
nationwide,
cabinet
head of state or a Swiss styled federal council

[jmmypaddy]

A major issue found in the UK is there is a major a media and political focus on southern (primarily london) areas and so there is a risk that the poorer areas such as the Northeast wouldn't have people from a political party representing their interests. It would require a an adoption of a regionalised version to fill up seats to ensure local interests are considered. First past the post obviously needs to go because of a lack of proportionality, spoiler effects and strategic voting. Probably some form of proportional representation of bigger areas such as councels with a ranking system that designates point for each position of ranking i.e 1st gets 10, 2nd gets 5, 3rd gets 3, 4 gets 2 and 5th gets 1.

[anonymouse]

Great video, have you done any more since. I was a bit confused as sometimes you pronounce Party as Paddy and I thought you w
ere talking about the Irish

[ian]

I feel as though we should use the D'hondt system like we use for electing MEP's.. it would allow each region to have a more representative electoral result.. for example in Northern Ireland, the DUP and sinn fein received around the same amount of votes (8000 votes apart), yet the DUP has twice the seats..

[beriligum]

In NZ all constituency MPs take their seat first. Parties are then allocated seats based on their proportion of the vote.

You are not awarded a new seat until you have more entitlement to MPs than the number of constituencies you won. You then are allocated List MPs.

If you do not get enough allocated seats from the party vote to cover your constituency MPs you get an "overhang" where the parliament is one seat bigger, with an overhang limit of ten.

[DBZMk]

I'd like to see an amalgamation of the alternative vote and MMP voting systems. That way the largest party would go to the more generally accepted party and the rest of the seats would be filled more equally with their favourite parties(Assuming their favourity parties didn't make the largest party).

[partlyawesome]

Would love to see a remake of this with the 2024 election results