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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It would be more accurate to say that FPTP helps the popular vote winner, exaggerating the number of seats they receiver per vote. Winning more votes means a wider distribution of votes across districts, which means that each incremental seat can be won with a smaller plurality. — PolitiTweet.org

George Eaton @georgeeaton

How many votes it took to elect an MP (how first-past-the-post helps the Tories). Conservatives: 38,265. Labour:… https://t.co/0YjU85Kh2U

Posted Dec. 14, 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here is our super-simple, six-point, top-line explainer on the big-deal British election, if you’re in the market for that sort of thing https://t.co/bQbfz4i1ry — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 13, 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

In the 1997 UK election, each Labour seat took 32,340 votes to win. Each Tory seat took 58,188 votes. So it’s not true that "FPTP helps Tories.” It is true that FPTP exaggerates popular vote majorities and artificially shrinks the voice of minority parties. Which still matters! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 14, 2019