if Reform had nearly 5million votes why do they only have 4 seats

Question

Lib Dem got 3.5mil votes and have 71 seats, Sinn Fein have 210,000 and seven seats

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Answer 1

A party can come second in every single seat – lose by 1% to the winning party every time, but get no seats at all.

In this situation, you get only 1% fewer votes overall than the winning party, but no seats.

Reform have support spread evenly across the country, unlike Labour where the support is concentrated in cities and tories who tend to win in rural seats.