Anyone got yesterday's Grauniad?

[UnquietDad]

That pie chart of the 2005 vote share on p17 is total bollocks, isn't it? Where did they get those figures from?? A bit of common sense would surely have told you that Labour didn't get 54% at the last election, and that 10% was pretty low even for the Lib Dems!

No online version to link to, sorry.

I don't know, I haven't read it yet...I only get it for the sudoku.

YES. Tis complete statistical rubbish.

The percentages on the LH pie chart are percentages of SEATS won. ie the comparable figures this time are
CONS 47%
LAB 40%
LD 9%
OTH 4%

The percentages on the RH pie chart are percentage of VOTES cast.

Sack the statisticians!

Add to that the aberrant apostrophe in Conservatives and it is a thoroughly shameful page!!

Hmm. Have just had a quick look and not read the accompanying article, but the bar at the top implies that what is being measured is the number and proportion of seats won, not of votes cast, in which case 54% is right (349/646 seats). I notice though that the figures for seats won in 2005 don't match those on the BBC website, which quotes a number of 356.

Eek. Post delayed while I ate my lunch. I had only looked at the data for 2005.

Roisin's right. The data for 2010 are a complete mess - the bar is seats won and the pie chart is votes cast.

Typical. Lucky there are people around who aren't as stupid as the papers would like.