UK General Election, Election Day and Results Thread

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SciFiBoy said:

Kantor said:
STV is complicated, but I can somewhat understand it. Rank candidates, they get votes based on their rank, multiple seats for a district. Not great, but not too bad.

Alternative Vote...seriously, what the HELL is it? It seems to have the same candidate ranking, but after that...what happens? What I thought was AV seems to be STV, in actual fact.

yeah, until Labour started talking about it, I had never heard anyone call AV "Proportional" (largely as its not, heck it can even be LESS proportional than fucking FPTP)

No "can" about it.  It pretty much has no chance of being anything BUT less proportional.  However, the "merit" to it Labour would say (outside of boosting their wins) is that everyone's vote "counts" as you move down the list of preference.

It's really not MUCH different then how you wanted a Labour/Lib Democrat coalition... except instead, the Liberal Democrats will just lose all their votes to the Labour party.

The other theory is that more people would vote for whatever party they felt like.  Feel like voting BNP but know they have no shot?  Vote BNP, UKIP then Consvervative.  Conservative will get the vote once the other two are eliminated.   Want to vote Green?  Vote Green, Lib Dem and Labor.  It will eventually go to Labor.

MAYBE those vote increases to smaller parties will lead to them building a stronger base that could challenge the others.