DynamicSpirit
Established Member
If the Tories were able to get such a major majority from 43% of the vote, who's to say they haven't been messing with the system to favour them.
That's not the system particularly favouring the Tories - it's the system boosting the largest parties. If anything, since the 1990s, the electoral system has favoured Labour much more than the Tories (which may be in part why Labour is so reluctant about PR). Consider that at the last election, the Tories were 11.4% ahead of Labour in vote share - very close to a mirror image of 1997 when Labour was 12.5% ahead of the Tories. In 1997, that 12.5% lead gave Labour a majority of 177, compared to the Tories' majority in 2019 of 'only' 80.
Of course some Tory fiddling with the system on the cards for the next election, although that's only likely to make a small difference in seats.
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