A projection of how the election results would look if we used Additional Member System (AMS), like in Scotland and Wales.

Party AMS FPTP Seat change
Labour 236 411 +175
LibDems 77 71 -6
Green 42 4 -38
SNP 18 9 -9
Plaid Cymru 4 4 0
Reform 94 5 -89
Conservative 157 121 -36
Northern Ireland 18 18 0
Other 4 6 +2
  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPM
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    4 months ago

    The Electoral Reform Society also favours STV, they probably chose AMS here as modeling it from FPTP isn’t complete guess work.

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      4 months ago

      I actually wrote my thesis on analysing the 2019 election results and extrapolating vote choices for other systems and seeing how that would affect the balance of power in the UK .

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        4 months ago

        Presumably part of that was trying to account for the lack of preference data?