{"id":4360,"date":"2019-12-16T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electoral-reform.org.uk\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:13:07","slug":"thousands-have-signed-our-petition-for-proportional-representation-since-warped-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/thousands-have-signed-our-petition-for-proportional-representation-since-warped-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands have signed our petition for proportional representation since the warped election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row flexible-block\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 wysiwyg\">\n<p><strong>Over 50,000 people have signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/action.electoral-reform.org.uk\/page\/3782\/petition\/1\">Electoral Reform Society\u2019s petition calling for proportional representation<\/a> for Westminster elections, after last week\u2019s warped results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s election set alarm bells ringing when the government won a large majority on a minority of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives\u2019 vote share rose only slightly (1.3 percentage points) \u2013 while their share of seats rose 7.4 points (to 56%). The Greens got over 860,000 votes and just one MP, while the Brexit Party got over 600,000 votes and none. Yet it took less than 40,000 votes to elect SNP and Conservative MPs. Something is deeply wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder we\u2019ve seen a surge in people signing up to support a genuinely democratic voting system \u2013 where seats match votes and everyone\u2019s voice is heard, no matter where they are. Westminster\u2019s rotten seat means that elections rely on a handful of \u2018swing seats\u2019 \u2013 while millions of voters in the hundreds of one-party\/safe seats are effectively ignored.<\/p>\n<p>That was illustrated by research for the ERS which found that just one in four people (25%) in safe seats reported receiving four or more election leaflets, compared to almost half (46%) of those in swing seats.<\/p>\n<p>But even in swing seats, voters are systematically ignored: often MPs can slip in on fractions of the vote \u2013 despite most people rejecting them.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve crunched the numbers and found that across the UK, there are <strong>14,513,247 unrepresented voters who didn\u2019t back the one winner in their area. That\u2019s 45.3% of votes cast in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Find out how many votes went unrepresented in your area:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Unrepresented voters by region\/nation<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"visualisation\/1107713\"><\/div>\n<h3><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nUnrepresented voters by nation<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"visualisation\/1107781\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sign the petition here and join the movement for real reform of Westminster:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/action.electoral-reform.org.uk\/page\/3782\/petition\/1\" class=\"btn\">Sign the petition and join the movement for real reform of Westminster<\/a>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50,000 people have signed the Electoral Reform Society\u2019s petition calling for proportional representation for Westminster elections, after last week\u2019s warped results. Thursday\u2019s election set alarm bells ringing when the government won a large majority on a minority of the vote. The Conservatives\u2019 vote share rose only slightly (1.3 percentage points) \u2013 while their share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[5,405],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electoral-reform","tag-first-past-the-post","tag-ge2019","feature-category-comment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}