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Thread #121159   Message #2653696
Posted By: Richard Bridge
10-Jun-09 - 11:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bring back Democracy to the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Bring back Democracy to the UK
The maths isn't that complex, but I'm not doing it now during my usual 4 am prowl. To illustrate, assume first a uniformly distributed population and two parties. The party with 51% of the vote gets 100% of the seats. Next assume a randomly distributed ("normal" bell-curve) population - the same effect is present but less so.