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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
It's time to see if the polls are right.
Previously: the voting megathread
Quick question - does anyone have the link to that "Tories being voted out" bingo card website? It was posted a few days ago, but I can't find it.
[EDIT]
Found it -
Feddit thread - I've probably not formatted the link properly
Torygeddon Bingo Website
Not a website, but here's a (low res, sorry) bingo card:
73 in Keir Starmer's electorate voted "for more than one candidate". I'd love to see what those ballots looked like. Or to speak with those voters. Was it a change of mind that they thought they could just cross out? Did they think they were doing an IRV vote? Approval voting? Was it just a deliberate nonsense protest vote?
There are some very close run seats out there, how close do they have to be to do a recount?
3 seats to go!
2 now
Feels quicker than previous years
This year's general election, after all the votes counted, has a
This makes the (dis)proportionality worse than HUNGARY's (my home) FPTP component (SLI = 36.96) – a component of the mixed system which allows our ruling party to get 2/3 supermajorities each time, every time, with sometimes less than 50% of the votes, and which ultimately transformed our country to an "electoral autocracy"
You guys need electoral reform desperately. And do it before someone cheats with the current rules deliberately.
(PS: I calculated the electoral indices using the python package voting)
The ship is ship shape