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Comment by CaptainMarvel

The Conservative party won 43% of votes and 56% of seats. The Labour party won 32% of votes and 31% of seats. Despite winning only 1.34x more votes, the conservatives received 1.8x more seats. (It's even worse, the Liberal Democrats won 11% of votes, and got 2% of seats; the Conservatives received 3.9x the votes and 28x the seats...)

The Conservatives changed the voting system for the London mayoral elections from supplementary vote to first past the post with the Elections Act 2022.

The UK has become a less democratic country with the government being less representative of the views of its people.

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