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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

There's no real way to implement PR while maintaining a Parliamentary system, in which we vote for who we want to represent our area in the Commons. If the percentage of the overall population was allocated per-seat, there'd be no way to ensure we'd get an MP for the party for whom we voted.

The Labour conference passed overwhelmingly to adopt PR.
There's only ONE Party in Westminster who wouldn't have it and that's the Cons.

PR is now used in Mayoral elections, police and crime commissioner elections, the N Ireland assembly, the Welsh parliament AND the Scottish parliament.

There are many forms of PR and it wouldn't be impossible to retain the more constituency link to MP.

The difference would be people voting and for the over 25% who never vote in elections, of whom would be likely more to vote in PR, would then the difference would mean they not only believed but would know, their votes really counted and that NO Party could get just over 40% of the votes but get power with overall majorities of 80.
That's the real scandal and should be an affront to UK real democracy.
First past the post encourages extreme governments it doesn't prevent them.

First past the post was fine when the 2 main parties got over 85%+ of votes cast between them.
Now they get on or under 75% is ridiculous for one to get absolute power.

Labour got around 36% of votes in 2005, the Cons got just over 32%
Yet Labour got an overall majority of 68.
That's obscene.