This is how, occasionally, you’ll see party come second in sets for a district they came first in.Remaining seat in each District is a “levelling seat” filled on the basis of the total vote for parties with more than 3% in that Nation/Region.The votes for every District in each Nation/English Region are totalled up.All but one of those MPs is elected “directly” with local votes using the Sainte-Laguë method.
Districts each elect between 4-9 MPs (with three exceptions being smaller).Make sure if you’re really curious you check that out as well! But just as a refresher I’m not going to go back through all the detail of how the system works or how I built the districts since that’s already in the original post. Rather than just give top-line seat numbers, I think it’s useful to have that little bit more detail, especially in a country where “but what about the local link?” is the common response to calls for electoral reform. Secondly, I’m going down to a much more local level, having built example districts to elect MPs from. Firstly, I’ve actually designed a proper system of PR rather than simply going “well X party got Y%, so they get Z seats”, so it has sensible rules such as % thresholds to be elected, common in most PR systems in Europe. What distinguishes this from the flurry of “if this election was PR” seat totals circulating at the moment is the detail.
Having gone to all the bother of building that model, it was (relatively) easy to then apply it to this year’s results as well. The resulting Long Read post covered each part of the UK, giving a relatively detailed look at a possible alternative to Westminster’s antiquated, unfair and fundamentally undemocratic voting system. Just before last week’s General Election, I went back to 2017’s results to work out what they might have looked like under a form of Proportional Representation.
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