lowtax speedrun enjoyer: labour barely managed a better share than 4 and a half years ago

labour barely managed a better share than 4 and a half years ago

FPP with multiple parties, who does that

I do seem to recall that in 2019 it was the opposite, conservatives only got a small bump from the previous election but picked up a lot of seats because of a labour/lib dem split

looking around the map I was thinking "is there anywhere Labour got an outright majority" Then I clicked on Merseyside and Central London "oh yeah" To my American brain all I can think is "why aren't Labour and the Lib Dems 1 party?" since in our world, they're both the Democrats

traditionally FPTP has keep Tory seats above voting %, and Labour / Lib Dem seats down. This year it bumped up Labour, and kept Tory & Reform seats well down.** So..... Good work FPTP? **Tactical voting by Lab / LDs means party % nationally doesn't mean as much as it might elsewhere

Lib Dems sat in government with the Tories in 2010, so in I'm not sure they would necessarily fit in with Labor. Maybe more so since Brexit, because the UK got a kind of American polarization around leave/remain

when you read their platform (well the condensed version on their website) the definitely would. also the sorts of people I knew who voted lib dem (granted in 1997) would 100% be voting for Democrats in the US. (anecdotal, I know) I think the LDs learned a painful lesson about the tories.....

You do get stuff like this, where a large chunk of the voters, more than 30%, went from Con to LD, something you basically never see in the US

Check out Vauxhall & Camberwell Green.

UK general election 2024 results live: Labour wins in landslidewww.theguardian.com With nearly all of the 650 seats declared, Keir Starmer has become the new prime minister with a large Labour majority. Follow the final results and find out how your constituency votedUK general elec...

in 2016 (rough november...) I looked up very specific voting date by precinct My precinct is 1 block in brooklyn - maybe 1000 people. I was telling someone Trump only got 12 here, they said "wow, only 12%!" "No, 12 votes" (about 2%) I suppose there are many blocks like that in the UK, too

Hillary got 96% - but that area is much smaller than a parliamentary constituency. To zoom out an order of magnitude larger than a UK constituency, my house district (about 750,000 people) was 84% for hillary. Is anything that high in the UK, even adding Lib Dems, Labour & Greens together?

Yes, there are. Jeremy Corbyn won North Islington, standing as an independent, because he has a large personal following there. He was its Labour MP 1983-2023.

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