uk politics just makes no sense to me no matter how many times i get it explained by teachers. i know that first past the post leads to disproportionate votes but have never understood the system of winning seats
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Lets say you’ve got 9 voters who will vote for the parties A or B. 4 want to vote for A and 5 for B, so you’d think B would win.
But everyone doesn’t vote together they are grouped.
Adjusting the way voters are grouped can change the result of the election.
eg A are in power and see that B would win the next election so they arrange the voters groups, usually by moving the constituency boundaries: AAB, AAB, BBB.
So grouped like this A wins 2 groups and B only wins 1. A wins 2:1.
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