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by mr_toad 717 days ago
In the most recent general election the Labour Party had a landslide victory with only 1/3 of the popular vote. The first past the post system allots significantly more power than the vote actually mandates.

People like to joke that democracy is a tyranny of the majority, but the FPP system is more like a tyranny of the largest minority.