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Some fun facts about how voting went last night, powered by those smart peeps over at Timetric. Here you can see total votes for the top three parties:

They seem somewhat evenly spaced there, follows roughly what the pre-election polls were saying for how voters would go. Now let’s look at how many seats that equates to:

Hmmm. Something seemed to get lost in translation there. So, how many votes is that per seat for each of the parties?

Interesting that it’s those parties that have been in power recently that seem to have an easier job of it – coincidence I’m sure. I don’t think I’m trying to make much of a political statement here – I have to confess that none of the parties really impressed me. I just think the numbers are interesting, and you can see why the Lib Dems want to change how voting works and conversely you see very clearly why the other parties don’t.