British voters rejected the ballot question to use Instant Runoff Voting, 32% to 68%. Turnout was approximately 44%. This was the first British ballot question, covering the entire nation, since 1975. See this story. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link. The measure initially was leading in the polls, but then the Conservative Party launched an all-out campaign against it.
Well, well, well… I guess the LibDems are TOAST!
Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner.
— regardless of the Alt.Vote/IRV MORONS in all regimes.
The Brits have had a minority rule House of Commons since the 1200s in the DARK AGE — one more part of the DARK AGE regime along with the DARK AGE House of Lords and the DARK AGE monarchy — trying to appear to be modern.
MAJOR area fixation in the U.K. regarding gerrymander districts — subareas in the regime.
This could be a lesson to us proportional election campaigners in two ways. First, incrementalism isn’t always the right strategy and second, leadership doesn’t have to come from the center on issues of electoral reform, and usually doesn’t.
This was touted as a “step toward” proportional elections and while I had some misgivings about it because AV (the same as IRV) isn’t proportional it was the only thing on offer.
The Liberal Democrats bet their political futures on this referendum (it was the main reason they entered into the coalition with the Tories, that and they’re power hungry) and when it was announced that it was just AV without any proportional element a lot of us were disappointed. I’m sick of allowing the center to dictate strategy, and I hope the center-lefties here will take the hint. That’s because I’m not prepared to help them if they try to sell IRV as a “solution” to our electoral problems simply because some Democrats might be willing to allow it.
http://ukreferendumresults.aboutmyvote.co.uk/en/default.aspx
Final Results
The other really big news from this election is that the Scottish National Party now has a majority government in the Scottish Parliament for the first time. The Scottish Greens (another pro-independence party) has a couple seats as well. Theoretically, Scotland could now secede from the UK simply by voting for it in parliament. However, my understanding is that the SNP is more in favor of holding a national referendum on the matter.
SNP is more in favour of sucking the Union dry of all the money it can, and then ponder on whether they can generate the revenue to go it alone.
regarding the referendum, my Town only hit 26% Yes 😮 You wouldn’t have known it from the streets though, I thought most responses were positive.
Will ALL of the ANTI-Cons unite and just pass a P.R. bill into law ???
i.e. if necessary provoke a REAL constitutional crisis — to break up the U.K. and have an English Republic ???
Stay tuned. The U.K. regime is UN-stable — having NO written Constitution — with the top party hack robots playing their EVIL games behind closed doors.