Elections: Think Tank says electoral system is ‘broken’

The UK general election system broken and unable to cope with the rise of minor parties, says think-tank The Institute for Public Policy Research. They also claim that hung parliaments are more likely - not just an occssional glitch in the matrix. Some useful stats they bandy about are: - The general election result was determined by just 1.6% of voters in marginal Commons seats - 31% of voters - 9 million people - lived in marginal seats which formed the main battlefields under the first-past-the-post system.

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