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

Reform mostly just ended up splitting the right wing vote. Stealing votes away from the Tories instead of convincing non-right people to vote for them. However in almost all constituencies, they were less popular than the Tories, meaning that they didn’t get the seat.

Splitting votes is less of a problem for parties like Lib Dems, as they have their own platform, they aren’t just trying to be more conservative than the conservatives.