Someone has created a spreadsheet to help you vote tactically!

[Destinysdaughter]

Article in the Independent
www.indy100.com/article/spreadsheet-voting-tactically-google-sheets-7690411

www.indy100.com/article/spreadsheet-voting-tactically-google-sheets-7690411

Can they do something which allows you to vote Labour and dump Corbyn at the same time?

Here's a direct link to the spreadsheet.

On a laptop use CTRL F to search or use the search box at the top of the sheet.

I guess the seats not included are a lost cause?

There's a note at the top that says it's still a work in progress, so maybe they're not all there yet. They seem to be organised in columns so you need to scroll across to see all seats.

Cool. Thank you.

Thank you, I'm looking at it on my phone which is really tricky. I'll have a look later on the laptop.

Be very very wary of this sort of thing, and check the calculations/formulas and base numbers yourself. This sort of thing.is often doing the rounds at election time and they may not be particularly altruistic.

Creepy and weird use your vote to vote for who you believe will do the best job in the given circumstances, this type of voter manipulation should make you wary very wary.

InfiniteSheldon

Tactical voting has been around for years. So its not creepy or weird.

If we had a better election system we wouldn't need it.

I wish we had some sort of proportional representation. My vote counts for very little as I live in a very safe Labour seat. It matters little who I vote for, the Labour candidate will be re-elected. The same goes for everyone else who lives in a really safe seat. Only people in marginal constituencies have any real chance of influencing the result of the election.

Not creepy or weird. If we had PR we wouldn't need to do it.

No problems with tactical voting (though it's shitty that we have such a crap voting system) just double check what these things tell you.

There's also a website for vote swapping

www.swapmyvote.uk

I really think that there should be an overall count to determine the dominant party nationally and they get an additional 100 floating MPs so that the overall will of the country can translate more easily into who's actually in power.

I'm in a safe Tory seat with UKIP in second place. Labour don't even put forward a candidate. I still vote every time in the hope that one say it will count.

The PR referendum a few years back was a joke, not PR at all, hence we still have the same system.

I wish the boundary changes had already taken place.

DropZoneOne
The PR referendum a few years back was a joke, not PR at all, hence we still have the same system.

But that was the beauty of it.
Offer something that isn't what people want and then split the PR factions.

Some wanted PR but voted against because it wasn't what they wanted
Others voted for it because they knew a vote for meant that it could be changed further down the line.

and then the media spinning the how hard it would be if we used it.

t was a truly fantastic piece of spin doctoring and they can still say that we had a real choice.

I once voted Lib Dem to keep the Tories out. The result was that Lib Dems helped the Tories in.