A graphical demonstration of just how broken our electoral system is

I’ve blogged before about how if you are under 40, nearly half the seats in the country have never changed hands since you were born. That isn’t a system that gives real power to people’s votes. Nor is it a system in which MPs are held accountable for their behaviour.

Now this great map has been put together illustrating the point (click on map for larger version):

Map showing how few seats change hands under first past the post

Credit: http://www.astr.is/electionmaps/index.html

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  • Not really, Mark. It just shows that those areas are heavily Conservative or Labour. Some constituencies are 60% for one party, generation after generation, and would stay the same under single member PR. Those are the choices of the voters.

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