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Originally Posted by MTVN

But you're never going to get a party having over 50% in a multi-party system, its not happened since 1931 in this country when politics really was a two party affair. And even if you put together Labour voters, SNP voters, Green voters and every Lib Dem voter, that doesn't even make up 50% of the vote. If we absolutely insist on talking about national vote share well then the right of centre parties in the Tories, Ukip, the DUP and the UUP got just about over 50% of the national vote.

The SNP have managed to take 50% of the vote in Scotland,in a multi party election.

I accept that parties except in a freak election probably,cannot get 50% of the vote but the votes for the 2 parties have fallen every decade and now over the last decade in 3 elections,neither party has exceeded 37% of the vote and more to the point,both main parties have not even secured just 70% of the total votes cast between them.

It used to be called the magic 40% figure,for elections.
Neither main party has got even just a dead 40% since 2001.

I feel now, that is unacceptable and unsustainable and if the UK really wants people to vote more,then they have to see that their votes do count and that out of every 10 voters that vote, a govt; cannot be elected to absolute power,by actually taking less than 4 of those voters out of every 10.