A short quiz

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Is our current method of converting Votes into MP's Seats in Westminster fir for purpose?

This is a short quiz based around the outcomes of 7 General Elections...

I knew this would be you! You're on quite a mission but I'm not sure focusing on MN is going to achieve it.

I'm not focused insofar as MN is far from the only platform I'm present on 😉
However, users here are both polite and responsive unlike elsewhere 😍(thus far at least).

That I'm "on a mission" sounds a bit too religious for my liking, but I am convinced that the current voting system needs to go and do my best to bring this to people's attention.

I’m a Labour supporter but didn’t vote Labour. I’m far from alone.

Are you young? You may not be aware that we voted to keep the status quo not that long ago.

If this is something you genuinely feel strongly about, posting on MN is not going to enable change. You need to contact your MP, join some other groups, get active. Keyboard warrioring does nothing, even if it did get you 10 seconds of attention.

I'm traditionally a LibDem voter but voted tactically for Labour in 2024.

Our current voting system means I had no realistic choice but to vote for the least-worst option, not my preferred choice.

I was born in 1963 and voted for the AV option in the 2011 referendum you refer to, as AV is slightly better than FPTP (I call it "FPTP+" on the grounds that it would have removed the "Spoiler Effect" from voting).

Thus I consider said referendum something of a non-event.
It was "vote for the status quo or for an almost identical alternative".

21.1% (at least) of the UK population voted to keep the status quo.
The turnout was only 42.2% suggesting that the other 57.8% "couldn't be bothered" and/or didn't realise what it was about😞

My MP, Chris Hinchliff (Lab), is pro-PR too, I spoke to him about it pretty soon after he was elected.

I am in daily contact with Make Votes Matter, amongst others, and in regular contact with a multitude of Councillors.

However, the more people I can get to understand why it's important, the more that might contact their own Councillors/MPs as well 🕸

I want PR to get the attention, not me!