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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
Crazy Labour won a huge majority with only 32% of the vote. Don’t you normally need like 40% for a majority with FPTP.
TIL the Brits rejected Automatic Transferable Voting in a 2011 referendum. So that’s two referendums in the 2010s where they picked the worst of the two options.
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Similar to what happened in France where you had tactical voting to keep the conservatives out. In close races people voting left all voted one way. Meanwhile the right vote was split between conservatives and the "Reform UK". Reform voters didn't largely vote tactically, as populist voters aren't very tactical.