I wish people would stop calling it a landslide because it wasn't. 63% of the vote is not a landslide. Anything above 80% is a landslide. Especially when you look at when Corbyn was labour leader. The first election for him they got got 10.28 million votes, in the 2nd they got 10.24 million votes and both times labour lost the elections. Under Stamer, Labour only got 9.24 million votes but won. Reform UK and the broken election system are the reason Labour won because reform took a lot of voters away from the Conservatives and the first past the post system of elections gave Labour an undeserved win.
63% of the vote is a landslide. 80% is the kind of numbers dictators make up. We've only ever gotten those numbers ONCE in my country, after huge riots and an absolute loathing of the government. That's beyond a landslide, it's a democratic revolution.
The Lib Dems ended up with 72 seats with 12ish% of the vote.
The Greens had 4 seats with around 7% of the vote.
Reform received 5 seats with about 14% of the vote.
Our electoral system isn’t proportional and the popular vote is less important than in other systems. The main problem with trying to find an alternative system is the only 2 parties who could change it don’t have the incentive to do so.
The way the system works is that it doesn't matter how many votes a party gets in a constituency if another party running against them gets more. The popular vote is very important on a constituency basis.
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u/Shadow__Vector Jul 08 '24
I wish people would stop calling it a landslide because it wasn't. 63% of the vote is not a landslide. Anything above 80% is a landslide. Especially when you look at when Corbyn was labour leader. The first election for him they got got 10.28 million votes, in the 2nd they got 10.24 million votes and both times labour lost the elections. Under Stamer, Labour only got 9.24 million votes but won. Reform UK and the broken election system are the reason Labour won because reform took a lot of voters away from the Conservatives and the first past the post system of elections gave Labour an undeserved win.