It's not.Chrill wrote:Sinn Fein got 0.6% of the vote and 4 seats. The Green Party got 3.8% of the vote and 1 seat. It just doesn't seem fair.
We vote for our local MP, and our local MP only - there's one seat we can vote for, and it gets filled with one person. That can be good in that there is a direct local connection with your vote. However, it can also mean that nationally, things can be skewed. Going by votes alone, UKIP ought to have had 80 or so seats - they have 1.
What I could maybe see is a form of proportional representation where we have "regional" constituencies of some sort (e.g., North East Scotland comprising 6-8 seats or however many there are), with seats allocated proportionally based upon preference votes. This is basically what happens in the Scottish Parliament, though we also have a FPTP constituency element as well. The Conservatives aren't going to be keen to change voting system though, but our system really isn't fit for purpose any more.