UK election result if we had proportional representation

Labour 2019: 10.3 million votes. 32.4% vote share. Result. 220 seats and the leader resigns. Labour 2024: 9.6 million votes. 33.7% vote share. Result: 412 seats and a landslide victory. This voting system is absolutely absurd.

“But coalitions are bad” - Parties having to work together and compromise is what democracy should be.

Anyone still saying FPTP gives stable governments after the last 14 years, and since Brexit in particular, is totally deluded.

Labour and conservatives aren't going to change anything it's in their interest not the public's.

In the current system there are far too many votes thrown away, being votes against, rather than for!

Maybe voting turn out will be higher if everyone's vote actually counted.

The Labour Party conference backed proportional representation. Don't let them forget this so easily, Britain.

FPTP is garbage, proportional is the way to go

A serious democracy shouldn't be handing out massive majorities with 30% or 40% of the vote. The result suits me as I hate the Tories but the system isn't fit for purpose and needs to be reformed.

Coalition governments force politicians to work across party divides. People get to vote who they want. Labour state this is the time for change so walk the talk and change it. PR now!

There's only two countries in europe that use FPTP system, us, and Belarus.

In New Zealand we have proportional voting and it works...the UK should not just try it, but needs it.

Tory's and Labour love FPTP, it gives them absolute power when their side wins, and as we all know: power corrupts.

14% of the vote and 0.6% of the seats is CRAZY

If we had PR instead of FPTP people wouldn't necessarily have voted the way they did. So directly transposing the results of a FPTP system nto a PR result doesn't give an accurate picture of how a PR result would have turned out. But I do understand the point being made.

Every vote counts, so let's bring proportional representation since UK and Belarus are the only countries in Europe that don't use it

A solution to this would be Single Transferable Voting. Get the direct representation of a FPTP while still having an elected official you share values with like proportional representation.

In Switzerland, we have proportional representation for most things which leads to a very diverse political landscape. Despite this, our elections are somewhat local. The system is a bit complicated, but people seem satisfied, the country is stable and there's no major party deciding everything. We don't even have a "government" and an "opposition" like most countries, but instead everyone works together, as per our national motto written inside the parliament building: "omnes pro uno, unus pro omnibus". With our system, you also don't get a rapid change of government after an election, because the changes are much smaller and nobody has a majority anyway. The party that does the least amount of constructive work and instead focuses on trying to be an "opposition" to anything is actually our conservative party which is also the largest party by number of voters. But they can't really do much on their own as long as nobody else agrees with them. With the same behaviour of voters but a UK-style system, Switzerland would be a radical conservative hellhole instead of what it is now. What also helps is that we get to vote on things several times a year rather than just vote for people who then decide everything. There is a downside to this system though: Things tend to just take forever because so many people get to say something. But that's a price I'm willing to pay for all the advantages. Other countries also have a constant back and forth when it comes to policies, because one side wins, four years later the other one takes over and pulls in the other direction...

PR would be better, but using numbers from yesterday to prove any point on PR is pointless. Voters knew PR wasn’t a thing yesterday, so many vote tactically. For example - you live in a constituency where you want to vote Labour but you know Labour won’t win. You want the Tories out and Lib Dems are the next best option, so you vote Lib Dem. With PR, that same person would have voted Labour and not bothered thinking about it.

Sickening state of UK politics I can see why many don't bother voting.