Why the UK Election Results are the Worst in History.

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[gfrewqpoiu]

After this election, this problem is even more acute and the solution seems farther away than ever.

[Sana_a]

No need to worry about elections over in Russia
The elections are done so well that the results are already in before people arrive to vote

[ers_eagles]

For Reference:

Blue: Conservative.
Red: Labour.
Yellow: SNP (Scottish National Party).
Orange: Liberal Democrats.
Brown: DUP (Democratic Unionist Party).
Dark Green: Sinn Féin (N. Ireland).
Green: Plaid Cymru (Wales).
Light Green: Social Democratic & Labour Party.
Light Blue: Ulster Unionist Party (N. Ireland).
Purple: UKIP (British Independence Party).
Very Light Green: Green Party.

[brucemupp]

We get a lot of tactical voting as well in the UK, so sometimes we aren’t even picking the party we want to run the country we are just voting against the one we don’t. We have great fun complaining about politics in this country.

[TheLPcollector]

The worst thing about this is that the misrepresentation error has to be fixed by those in power... aka the ones who benefit the most from said error

[ks]

I have to talk to my teacher: You should round up 37% to 51% and that's equals/technical 100%. Sounds good.

[ravelqueen]

this is why I like the German two-prong system - one vote for the local M.P., one vote for the party in your state, calculated together with (hideously complicated calculation rules I'm not geoing to get into) to get as close to representation of the votes as possible, while letting local politicans that might be really popular in their area win seats, without disenfranchising smaller parties

[ZachBrannigan]

I think the degree of misrepresentation error is about to skyrocket with today's election. Based on the polls, I can already see that "Fareham and Waterlooville" is expected to have an error of 140.6pp. Southport is expected to go from its place at the bottom with 138pp of error to 101.3pp. Belfast South (now Belfast South and Mid Down) will "improve" to 118pp.
Edit: The misrepresentation error nationally is ~58.3pp.

[ikaSenseiCA]

Meanwhile in the US, we still want more than two real parties

[HarryRobins]

I thought parties were meant to be fun...

[averagejoe]

“Government isn’t a sport where a singular winner must be determined”
US: well yes but actually no

[bread]

The map of the U.K. in american movies: 0:56

[bsm]

2:53 This isn't election results, it's a traffic light.

[rambi]

That's right world, all of our parties are named after a colour!

[Oziji]

this has basically happened again but more extreme

[jonlinin]

So I have voted at every opportunity since 1979, I have never had an MP, County Councillor, District Councillor, Town or Parish Councillor that reflected my politics. I have had MEP (members of the European parliament) who represented me because they were elected proportionately.
I like Single Transferable Vote (STV) which is used for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly - very few wasted votes, works out close to exactly proportional, and gives you a choice even within the party you support. You can access the results online - you can see each round as the votes get redistributed - very interesting. The reason they have it was to try and accurately reflect opinion in a very divided community.

[EightThreeEight]

I did the math(s).
2019's error was 34%.
So not as bad as 2015, but much worse than 2017.

[batteriesfx]

So in the U.K. 37% rounds up to 100% pretty much?

[mr.halfbloodprince]

If the UK election results are crazy, just check up the results of Indian election which is way crazier. The ruling party got 55.8% seats when their vote share was 37.3%.

[derj]

Watching this in the US, in 2020, to remind myself that other countries have terrible electoral systems too.