The 15,667,992 people whose vote didn’t matter
Last Wednesday 15,667,992 people voted for a candidate who did not win. That’s 53% of the people who voted. Less than half of the people who voted will be represented by the candidate they supported.
Here is a breakdown by party, it shows the number of “wasted” votes the party received, and also gives that as a percentage of the total number of votes the party received.
OTHER = 575689 (100.00%)
UKIP = 917175 (100.00%)
BNP = 564321 (100.00%)
Green = 269378 (94.31%)
SNP = 403024 (82.02%)
LD = 5596089 (81.96%)
PC = 129651 (78.39%)
Alliance = 29923 (69.98%)
SDLP = 59374 (53.50%)
Lab = 3600427 (41.86%)
SF = 69652 (40.51%)
C = 3404308 (31.87%)
DUP = 48981 (29.12%)
You can see why a lot of people think there is no point voting for a minority party under our broken electoral system. 94% of people who voted for the Green party needn’t have bothered, and 82% of those who voted LibDem were in the same boat, and everyone who voted for a party other than the handful who won seats needn’t have bothered at all.
The LibDems are in the strongest position they have possibly ever been in to change this, lets hope they don’t let us down.
