Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Non-surprisingly it exists in some form in anglo countries. UK and Canada
In the UK we have the electoral boundary commission specifically to avoid this sort of thing. Do you have an example of it being a problem in the UK?
This is just from what I looked up (from 4 years ago): With both parties getting 38% to Tories get 12 more seats than Labour. www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?…
Seen other comments they can also mess with other factors, avg inhabitants, etc… Anyway, really not familiar with this but at first glance you at least have that system and you all can decide if 12 seats is a problem to you or not. Not my problem
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In the UK we have the electoral boundary commission specifically to avoid this sort of thing. Do you have an example of it being a problem in the UK?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is just from what I looked up (from 4 years ago):
With both parties getting 38% to Tories get 12 more seats than Labour.
www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/usercode.py?…
Seen other comments they can also mess with other factors, avg inhabitants, etc…
Anyway, really not familiar with this but at first glance you at least have that system and you all can decide if 12 seats is a problem to you or not. Not my problem