Sarah Brown: Yeah, you’re right. They got 12% of the vote nationally, which should give them about 78 seats, but their utterly disproportional representation gives them *checks notes* 72. This is completely unlike, say, Labour who have, like three quarters of the seats on a third of the vote. Very maths.

The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats. Tired: The Blue Wall Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE

Yeah, it is a grim reminder that we need a better voting system so such an unpopular party doesn't win a disproportionate number of seats again.

Yeah, you’re right. They got 12% of the vote nationally, which should give them about 78 seats, but their utterly disproportional representation gives them *checks notes* 72. This is completely unlike, say, Labour who have, like three quarters of the seats on a third of the vote. Very maths.

It's almost like counting vote percentages over the whole country give no clear indication of local mp support.

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