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Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Opinion polls had consistently shown strong leads for the Conservatives over Labour. From a 21-point lead, the Conservatives' lead began to diminish in the final weeks of the campaign. The Conservative Party returned 317 MPs—a net loss of 13 seats relative to 2015—despite winning 42.4% of the vote (its highest share of the vote since 1983), whereas the Labour Party made a net gain of 30 seats with 40.0% (its highest vote share since 2001 and its highest increase in vote share between two general elections since 1945). It was the first election since 1997 in which the Conservatives made a net loss of seats or Labour a net gain of seats. The election had the closest result between the two major parties since February 1974 and resulted in their highest combined vote share since 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election

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[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Corbyn got 12.9 Million votes, vs Starmer's 9.7 million in last years "landslide"

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Boris got 14 million.

You can't really compare total vote count across general elections without missing a shit load of nuance.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

The nuance being FPTP is a terrible undemocratic system which results in +- 4 million people determining the absolute rulers of the country out of a potential voting population of 56 million.

https://electoral-reform.org.uk/this-years-general-election-left-millions-of-voices-unheard/

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo