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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In the UK, the discrepancy between the number of seats won by a political party and the proportion of the popular vote they receive can occur due to the country’s electoral system, the “first-past-the-post” (FPTP) method.
Under the FPTP system, the country is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one Member of Parliament (MP). Voters in each constituency cast a single vote for their preferred candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, regardless of whether they achieve an absolute majority (i.e., more than 50%) of the votes cast.
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