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** Official MN Election Night Thread - let's hold hands and wait together ** Pt2

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toccatanfudge · 07/05/2010 04:20

oops filled the other one

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 07:07

thanks ID, been a long time since I've properly looked into pr (had given up hope of it ever happening) also got brain capacity of a gnat this am!

dh has just emerged. making emergency toast.

IDemosthenes · 07/05/2010 07:02

OYBBK yes you would have say minimum votes to be able to gain a seat set at say 4% of the votes? And you can split PR to allow different voting for local MP and national party.

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 07:00

Are we going to know in the next 3 hours?

I have to go teach a class in 15 mins

IDemosthenes · 07/05/2010 06:56

They might have gone down in votes, (have they, not checked that) but in a situation of a hung parliament, or where the % of the votes across the country is split so closely, then it matters. It matters a lot that they have such a close figure to the labour party yet will not be truly represented, whether less people voted for them or not. I had never been fair, but now, for some reason i feel it more.

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 06:55

I just started a thread (WWYD if you were Nick Clegg) saying I'd align with Labour, who've just starting spouting electoral reform, ask for a referendum and push for an election the minute that's past....

I absolutely agree with you, ID.

IDemosthenes · 07/05/2010 06:54

well no asecretlemonadedrinker because, like in germany now, we would have a minimum % of votes in place so ensure than fringe parties who could hold the balance of power to the detriment of the country such as the BNP etc would not be able to gain seats on such low figures.

LoveBeingAHungParliament · 07/05/2010 06:54

But they've gone down

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 06:54

thats the bastard aspect of democracy. pr can be done in different ways though that perhaps could prevent that sort of thing. far too addled to think about it atm.

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:53

13 seats for BNP sorry with 2%

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:52

OTOH nearly 2% voted BNP, meaning... about 6 seats would be theirs?

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 06:52

Absolutely ID this election, more than ever before has highlighted the need for electoral reform.

dinasaw · 07/05/2010 06:51

We've just gone Lib Dem by 800 votes. This seat has been Tory for years

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:51

Frakkin, Yah, for sure

IDemosthenes · 07/05/2010 06:50

Can I just post something. I am sure it has been said, either here, or on another thread.

How can we justify a system where 22.7% of the country vote for one party and they get 48 seats, and 28.7% of the country vote for another party. Just 6% more, and they get 225 seats. How on earth can we consider this to be fair or just? Or proportionate? For the first time in my entire life I have woke to see results that have made me so tearful. I am not even an avid lib dem supporter. But the fact that the opinions of this country will not be truly reflected makes me feel sad, and sick.

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:50

no... DS1 is up, but hey ho. Still one more to declare in the 'area'. And while conserv. have a tiny tiny chance.... 50/74....

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 06:48

can you go to bed now Secret?

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 06:46

Richmond boy is very, um, public school....

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 06:44

video clip of count disturbance at Glasgow east

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:44

Reading East finally! Conserv. hold wooo!

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:44

53/80...aint gonna happen

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 06:39

Subtext - Clegg is holding out to see which way the wind is blowing...

OhYouBadBadKitten · 07/05/2010 06:37

paraphrasing clegg speech: "hundreds mid afternoon queueing for an hour and a half, hundreds who didnt get to vote : should never happen again."

ASecretLemonadeDrinkerDAVE · 07/05/2010 06:37

slough - labour

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 06:36

Ohhhh goody. He's talking about the polling stations monumental mess up.

FrakkinTheReturningOfficer · 07/05/2010 06:35

Clegg declared!