Petition Change the voting system to proportional representation, dump FPTP

Proportional representation means that vote share in the population matches the amount of seats each party gets in an election. First past the post creates a huge disparity between vote share and seats in the House of Commons, with parties receiving millions of votes and just one seat. Details below

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2015 Election:

•Conservatives - 331 seats, 11,334,226 votes (36.9%)

•Labour - 232 seats, 9,347,273 votes (30.4%)

•UKIP - 1 seat, 3,881,099votes (12.6%)

•Liberal Democrats - 8 seats, 2,415,916 votes (7.9%)

•Green Party - 1 seat, 1,57,630 votes (3.8%)

2017 Election:

•Conservatives - 318 seats, 13,636,684 votes (42.4%)

•Labour - 262 seats, 12,877,918 votes (40.0%)

•Lib Dems - 12 seats, 2,371,861 votes (7.4%)

•UKIP - 0 seats, 594,068 votes (1.8%)

bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017/results

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Date closed 31 January 2019
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