75 more votes in the right places – that’s all the Conservatives would have needed to govern alone

If just 75 people in the right constituencies had voted differently in the 2017 General Election, Theresa May would now have a working majority in the Commons. Chris Terry (Electoral Reform Society) examines some of the more extraordinary anomalies thrown up by the first-past-the-post system this year. In North East Fife the SNP beat the … Continue reading 75 more votes in the right places – that’s all the Conservatives would have needed to govern alone