Reform won four seats from 4m votes, whereas Labour won more than 400 from 9.7m ballots
has called for electoral reform after it emerged his party would have won more than 90 seats under a different voting system.The party had more votes per seat than any other, at one million per seat, while Labour had the fewest – despite itsIf the UK had a voting system that allocated seats according to the proportion of votes received, Reform would have had 93 MPs.
“That certainly will be doing and we’ll make those arguments in Parliament as quickly as we can. The results show there is absolutely no enthusiasm for Starmer’s Labour whatsoever.” Dhruv Sengupta, an unsuccessful Lib Dem candidate in Feltham and Heston, said the party is campaigning for proportional representation because it’s “the right thing to do”.
The Greens have also suffered under first past the post. They received nearly two million votes but only got four seats.Under a proportional system they would get 44. Labour would have had 219 as opposed to 412, and the Conservatives 154 instead of 121.
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