Very cool website which tells you how much your vote is really worth....

[catinthehat2]

Find out how powerful your vote is compared to the UK average

I live in a safe seat, my vote is worthless.

...hmmm.

Site doesn't recognise my postcode or the name of my (highly marginal) constituency...

..it is being boundary and name changed. But I've entered both without success....

There's a message on the site saying some people are having problems with the postcode search. Think that bit of it's out of order for now. I didn't get anything on postcode but constituency name has been fine. Put part of the name in and see what it gives you.

Wrong constituency with my postcode

Seems my vote actually counts at 0.9%

Shame the vote only has influence as far as electing people and not on getting them to vote in the House of Commons..

Very safe Tory seat. I will be abroad on business for the election so this has made me think it is probably not worth organising a postal vote .

Blimey it described "0.126" as being "very safe" but seeing 0.017 and 0.012 puts it into context...

My area is ranked a little over half way, which goes to show many more than half must be safe or very safe!

I already knew my vote was worthless, had I actually been on the electoral roll.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention - it certainly puts some perspective on how worthless it is for perhaps half the population to bother to vote...

I know that sounds daft, but I'm sure YKWIM

WebD - been thinking abt this today. You say -
" it certainly puts some perspective on how worthless it is for perhaps half the population to bother to vote.."

I think I disagree - we all HAVE to vote, however minuscule our % because

A) if you don't vote_ (and you are the opposite party to me), you are making my vote a fraction more powerful.

B) if you do vote (and you are the same party as me), we are using our votes to block out the opposite party whose members DON'T bother to vote

I think this site illustrates why the parties are obsessed with voter turnout, I've never really understood it so clearly before.

Does that sound right?

Jareth I live in West Belfast. A Sinn Fein stronghold (thank goodness).

Have just discovered (due to some election advertsing) that our boundary has changed. Still in a conservative stronghold though.

Power is 0.067 and 461 out of 650.

JarethTheGoblinKing Fri 09-Apr-10 22:54:23

I wonder where is #650?

Knowsley in merseyside

Well this looks like a great illustration of the arguments for proportional representation!

Indeed it does, policywonk, which is why (catinthehat2) I wrote "worthless ... to bother to vote..." mostly tongue in cheek...

It's quite clear every time they analyse the results of voting that many of the votes have no effect on the eventual numbers of MPs in the Commons.

I only wrote 'worthless' because so many millions can be wasted as they have no effect, and even if more of the electorate voted in a "safe" seat, either
a) the "safe" candidate/ party would pick up enough extras to seal a victory or
b) the extra votes would be sufficiently split not to give anyone else a majority.

Wow, I am doing better than the lot of you by the look of it - 1.036 and no. 6 of 650 in terms of voter power.

(Which is why I will be voting for my least-worst realistic option, rather than my preferred one.)

I also get a REAL vote with proportional representation & all when we get to vote for the AMs (smug emoticon)

[gets here a bit late]

we are an ultra safe con seat, 0.049 and ranked 506th.
This has finally convinced me who to vote for as I was undecided between two of them.

I agree that this has to be evidence enough to change the way our votes are used, because actually the tv debates are pretty meaningless unless we can actually vote for the person taking part and that that vote goes towards who runs the country.

(feeling useless emoticon)

That's a brilliant website- Amin a very safe constituency with a Plaid Cymru MP, but that's who I'd vote for anyway...

sooooo depressing. fairly worthless vote. this can't be right.

0.102

Great ! But not surprising. Tory safe seat - always has been and I suspect always will be.

0.067 of a vote. Ranked 460 out of 650 for voter power.

OK I don't feel quite as bad about my crappy 0.067 of a vote now as I put my parents in and they get 0.002 of a vote each. Still they could vote tactically together and get a whopping 0.004 between them.

christ we live in a very safe seat and my vote is practically worthless. 48.14% of voters (including me) voted labour in 2005 33.13% tory 14.08% libdem and 4.64% ukip.

Can someone do me a favour?

I am at work at the mo (not working very much, I leave here in 3 weeks so have nothing to do, so am just mumsnetting all day) but can't access that site. Please can someone look at Gloucester for me, I thought it was pretty marginal but apparently it is not as marginal as I thought.

Ta muchly

Interesting site - I thought we were an irredeemably safe Tory seat round here, but we only come up as "fairly safe".

Gloucester is the same GOML - Fairly safe - 0.226.

mine is ultra safe (makes sense as one party arent even bothering to stand here) however the party that is ultra safe is not one I would choose to vote for (makes sense why that partys leader hasnt been touting for votes here)

Thanks very much Bramshott.

I really thought we were more marginal than that tbh. The conservatives have been really bullish here.